Dominik Distelberger Explained

Dominik Distelberger
Birth Date:	16 March 1990
Birth Place:	Scheibbs, Austria
Height:	1.86 m^[1]
Weight:	79 kg
Sport:	Athletics
Event:	Decathlon, heptathlon
Club:	UVB Purgstall
Coach:	Herwig Grünsteidl
Show-Medals:	yes

Dominik Distelberger (born 16 March 1990) is a retired Austrian athlete who competed in the decathlon. He represented his country at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro finishing 19th, as well as the 2017 World Championships in London finishing 17th.

In March 2023, Distelberger retired from the sport. He was the 2014 Austrian Athletics Federation Athlete of the Year.^[2]

International competitions

Representing
2007	European Youth Olympic Festival	Belgrade, Serbia	13th (sf)	200 m	22.39 s
			bgcolor=silver	2nd	110 m hurdles (99 cm)	13.85 s
	World Youth Championships	Ostrava, Czech Republic	30st (h)	200 m	22.33 s
			10th	Octathlon	5830 pts
2008	World Junior Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	41st (h)	110 m hurdles (99 cm)	14.52 s
			15th (h)	4 × 100 m relay	40.80 s
2009	European Junior Championships	Novi Sad, Serbia	6th	Decathlon (junior)	7396 pts
2010	Hypo-Meeting	Götzis, Austria	16th	Decathlon	7604 pts
2011	European Indoor Championships	Paris, France	15th	Heptathlon	4135 pts
	Hypo-Meeting	Götzis, Austria	14th	Decathlon	7840 pts
	European U23 Championships	Ostrava, Czech Republic	7th	Decathlon	7735 pts
2012	Hypo-Meeting	Götzis, Austria	16th	Decathlon	6926 pts
	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	15th	Decathlon	7611 pts
2013	European Indoor Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	11th	Heptathlon	5623 pts
2014	European Championships	Zürich, Switzerland	12th	Decathlon	7942 pts
2016	European Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	–	Decathlon	DNF
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	19th	Decathlon	7954 pts
2017	European Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	4th	Heptathlon	6063 pts
	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	17th	Decathlon	7857 pts
2018	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	8th	Heptathlon	5908 pts
	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	–	Decathlon	DNF

Personal bests

Outdoor

• 100 metres – 10.54 (+1.6 m/s, Ostrava 2011)
• 200 metres – 21.41 (-0.3 m/s, Villach 2010)
• 400 metres – 47.25 (Götzis 2010)
• 1000 metres – 2:56.28 (Ostrava 2007)
• 1500 metres – 4:27.10 (Ratingen 2010)
• 110 metres hurdles – 14.19 (+0.3 m/s, Paris 2017)
• High jump – 2.00 (Götzis 2014)
• Pole vault – 5.00 (Götzis 2016)
• Long jump – 7.74 (+1.0 m/s, Villach 2010)
• Shot put – 13.76 (Götzis 2016)
• Discus throw – 45.23 (Schwechat-Rannersdorf 2015)
• Javelin throw – 61.83 (Rio de Janeiro 2016)
• Decathlon – 8175 (Götzis 2016)

Indoor

• 60 metres – 6.83 (Vienna 2010)
• 1000 metres – 2:41.01 (Tallinn 2011)
• 60 metres hurdles – 7.80 (Belgrade 2017)
• High jump – 2.02 (Vienna 2010)
• Pole vault – 5.10 (Belgrade 2017)
• Long jump – 7.52 (Vienna 2013)
• Shot put – 13.70 (Vienna 2016)
• Heptathlon – 6063 (Belgrade 2017)

Notes and References

1. Web site: ÖLV profile . 2016-07-16 . 2016-08-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160819232125/http://www.oelv.at/athletes/details.php?id=2577 . dead .
2. Web site: Grasberger . Armin . 2023-03-09 . Distelberger beendet Karriere: „Ich werde sicher in kein Loch fallen“ . 2024-01-11 . www.noen.at . de.