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Janek Õiglane
Estonian decathlete (born 1994) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Janek Õiglane (born 25 April 1994 in Rakvere) is an Estonian Olympic decathlete. He has competed at multiple major championships and competed at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, finishing in fifth place.
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He won a bronze medal at the 2015 European U23 Championships.[2] He competed for Estonia and placed nineteenth overall at the 2015 World Athletics Championships in Beijing, China with 7581 points.[3]
He placed fourth overall at the 2017 World Athletics Championships in London, England, with a lifetime best of 8371 points, including a javelin throw personal best of 71.73 metres. He moved in late 2017 to work with coach Andrei Nazarov. He also spent three months with the Estonian Army in 2018 before a heel and hamstring injury ruled him out of the 2018 season. He set a personal best tally of 6085 points in the indoor heptathlon Tallinn, in 2019 to become the eighth Estonian all-time to go over 6000 points, and qualified for the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow but was ruled out by a freak injury landing a pole vault jump. He finished in sixth place at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha with 8297 points, his efforts included going sub-11 seconds for the first time in the 100 metres with a time of 10.94 seconds, a lifetime 400m best of 49.14, and a new javelin personal best of 72.46m.[4]
He did not complete the decathlon at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon.[5] He won a bronze medal in the decathlon at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, Germany.[6] He finished in sixth place at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary with a personal best total of 8,524 points, and gained the automatic qualification standard for the Olympic Games the following year, for his Olympic debut.[7][8]
He withdrew from the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024 after suffering a knee injury in the long jump.[9] He set a new personal best score of 8572 points in the decathlon in Paris to finish fifth at the 2024 Olympic Games.[10] He was given the honour of carrying the Estonian flag at the closing ceremony of the Games.[11]
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Personal life
He and Kendra married in 2022. In February 2025, he announced on social media that they were expecting their first child.[12][13]
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Information from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.
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- As of 24 June 2025
Indoor
- As of 24 June 2025
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