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Johannes Erm
Estonian decathlete (born 1998) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Johannes Erm (born March 26, 1998) is an Estonian decathlete and the reigning European champion and a silver medalist at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in the heptathlon. He competed at the 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games. He won the 2019 NCAA championships in the decathlon.
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Johannes Erm was born March 26, 1998, in Tartu. He started school in Tallinn Secondary School of Science. In his youth he played football in the Estonian club FC Flora. In 2011, he transitioned into track and field and started training with his trainer at the time Holger Peel. In 2017 he finished high school and went to study mechanical engineering in University of Georgia. Where he was coached by Petros Kyprianou.[3] In 2021 his coach changed to James Thomas.[2] In 2023, after finishing his studies and returning to Estonia, his coach changed back to Holger Peel.
He finished eleventh in the decathlon at the delayed 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, with a tally of 8213 points.[4]
He finished ninth at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, finishing with a tally of 8227 points in the decathlon.[5] He also placed ninth in the decathlon at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, with a personal best score of 8484 points.[6]
He was selected to compete in the heptathlon at the 2024 World Athletics Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, in March 2024, and finished in third place overall to win the bronze medal with a personal best 6340 points.[7]
Competing in the decathlon he was a gold medalist at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024, with a personal best tally of 8764 points.[8] Whilst competing at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, he finished in sixth place overall.[9]
In March 2025, he competed in the heptathlon at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, finishing in fourth place with 6380 points, coming close to a medal, finishing just eight points behind bronze medalist Till Steinforth of Germany.[10] He followed that by also competing in the heptathlon at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, later in the same month, and this time came away with a medal as he set an Estonian national record of 6437 points to win the silver medal behind Sander Skotheim of Norway, whilst Germany’s Till Steinforth claimed bronze with 6275.[11] He finished second at Décastar in July 2025.[12]
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Information from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.
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- As of 21 June 2025
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- As of 21 June 2025
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