Romain Barras

Romain Barras at the 2010 European Athletics Championships in Barcelona

Romain Barras (born 1 August 1980 in Calais, Pas-de-Calais) is a French decathlete. At the Universiade he finished fifth in 2001 and first in 2003, the latter in a personal best score of 8196 points. He represented France at the 2004 Summer Olympics and came in thirteenth place overall in the decathlon. He became the regional champion at the 2005 Mediterranean Games.

He improved his personal best to 8298 points for third place at the 2007 TNT - Fortuna Meeting.[1] He finished fifth in the decathlon at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and was twelfth at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. Barras set a personal best of 8313 points to win at the 2010 European Cup Combined Events in Tallinn, Estonia.[2]

On 29 July 2010, Barras won the decathlon gold medal at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona with a score of 8453. He took part in the 2010 Décastar meeting in September and finished third with 8180 points.[3]

Achievements

Year Competition Venue Position Notes
2001 World Student Games Beijing, China 5th Decathlon
2003 World Student Games Daegu, South Korea 1st Decathlon
2004 Olympic Games Athens, Greece 13th Decathlon
2005 Hypo-Meeting Götzis, Austria 5th Decathlon
Mediterranean Games Almería, Spain 1st Decathlon
World Championships Helsinki, Finland 7th Decathlon
Décastar Talence, France 5th Decathlon
2006 Hypo-Meeting Götzis, Austria 7th Decathlon
European Championships Gothenburg, Sweden 8th Decathlon
2007 European Indoor Championships Birmingham, England 6th Heptathlon
Hypo-Meeting Götzis, Austria 10th Decathlon
2008 Olympic Games Beijing, China 5th Decathlon
2009 World Championships Berlin, Germany 12th Decathlon
2010 European Championships Barcelona, Spain 1st Decathlon
2011 World Championships Daegu, South Korea 11th Decathlon

References

  1. ↑ Lubenský, Zdenek (2007-06-21). Sebrle is back on top of the world with an 8697pts score. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-03.
  2. ↑ Estonia and France are the European Cup Combined Events Super League champions. European Athletics (2010-06-28). Retrieved on 2010-07-03.
  3. ↑ van Kuijen, Hans (2010-09-19). Suarez and Chernova prevail in Talence - IAAF World Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-09-19.

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