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European Championships

Year	Location	Decathlon
2018	Berlin, GER	DNF

World Combined Events Challenge

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
11	Decathlon	2018	Gotzis, AUT	8101
DNF	Decathlon	2018	Berlin, GER	DNF

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Athlete, Student

Economics - University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

English, Estonian

University of Georgia [USA] / Tartu SS Kalev [EST]

Petros Kyprianou [Georgia], CYP

At the 2018 European Championships in Berlin, Germany, he sustained an injury to his right elbow during a pole vault warm-up and required surgery to replace the ulnar collateral ligament. After competing in early 2019, he missed the northern hemisphere summer that year due to the injury and returned to competition in January 2020. (err.ee, 23 May 2020; trackandfieldnews.com, 20 Nov 2018)

He was a basketball player before focusing on athletics when he moved to Tartu, Estonia, as a child. "I found a really good coach and he led me down this path." (georgiadogs.com, 12 May 2021)

"I was always a hyperactive kid. We had four or five different sports you could do in my town, and I went to all of them. I trained more hours in a week when I was 12 than I do now. I probably trained around 30 hours a week just because I like moving around, I could never sit still. The best thing about athletics is that you can constantly overcome your own records." (georgiadogs.com, 12 May 2021; ekjl.ee, 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (ohtuleht.ee, 13 May 2021)

US basketball player LeBron James. (ekjl.ee, 2018)

"Before the 400m and 1500m runs, I always tell myself that no matter how hard it is during the race, I feel good again an hour later. It motivates me to give my best." (ekjl.ee, 2019)