Pieter Braun

Pieter Braun

Pieter Braun in 2015
Personal information
Born	(1993-01-21) 21 January 1993 Terheijden, Netherlands
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	83 kg (183 lb)
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event	Decathlon
Coached by	Vince de Lange

Pieter Braun (born 21 January 1993 in Terheijden) is a Dutch athlete competing in the combined events. He won the gold medal at the 2015 European U23 Championships. He also competed in the decathlon in the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing the Netherlands
2012	World Junior Championships	Barcelona, Spain	16th	Decathlon (junior)	7055 pts
2013	European U23 Championships	Tampere, Finland	11th	Decathlon	7540 pts
2015	European Indoor Championships	Prague, Czech Republic	12th	Heptathlon	4832 pts
	European U23 Championships	Tallinn, Estonia	1st	Decathlon	8195 pts
	World Championships	Beijing, China	12th	Decathlon	8114 pts
2016	European Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	7th	Decathlon	7945 pts
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	–	Decathlon	DNF
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	16th	Decathlon	7890 pts
2018	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	7th	Decathlon	8105 pts
2019	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	7th	Decathlon	8222 pts
2021	European Indoor Championships	Toruń, Poland	–	Heptathlon	DNF

Personal bests

Outdoor

• 100 metres – 10.90 (+0.5 m/s) (Götzis 2017)
• 400 metres – 48.02 (Tallinn 2015)
• 1500 metres – 4:24.29 (Götzis 2018)
• 110 metres hurdles – 14.13 (+0.7 m/s) (Tallinn 2015)
• High jump – 2.04 (Beijing 2015)
• Pole vault – 5.05 (Amsterdam 2016)
• Long jump – 7.71 (+0.5 m/s) (Götzis 2017)
• Shot put – 15.28 (Götzis 2018)
• Discus throw – 47.33 (Vught 2018)
• Javelin throw – 64.19 (Götzis 2019)
• Decathlon – 8.342 (Götzis 2019)

Indoor

• 60 metres – 7.21 (Dortmund 2016)
• 1000 metres – 2:40.19 (Sheffield 2014)
• 60 metres hurdles – 8.08 (Apeldoorn 2016)
• High jump – 2.02 (Apeldoorn 2014)
• Pole vault – 5.04 (Apeldoorn 2016)
• Long jump – 7.47 (Apeldoorn 2018)
• Shot put – 14.44 (Apeldoorn 2017)
• Heptathlon – 5837 (Apeldoorn 2015)

External links

• Pieter Braun at World Athletics
• Pieter Braun at European Athletics
• Pieter Braun at the Royal Dutch Athletics Federation at the Wayback Machine (archived 23 June 2016) (in Dutch)
• Pieter Braun at Olympedia
• Pieter Braun at Olympics.com
• Pieter Braun at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)
• Pieter Braun on Instagram