KAUL Niklas

Germany
Athletics
11 Feb 1998
23
Male
Olympic Scholarship
MAINZ
 
Germany
MAINZ
 
Germany

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
ATH Athletics Men's Decathlon DNF

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Olympic Stadium - Track
Men's Decathlon 100m - Heat 1
Finished
Olympic Stadium - Long Jump A
Men's Decathlon Long Jump - Group A
Finished
Olympic Stadium - Shot Put B
Men's Decathlon Shot Put - Group B
Finished
Olympic Stadium - High Jump B
Men's Decathlon High Jump - Group A
Finished
Olympic Stadium - Track
Men's Decathlon 400m - Heat 3
Finished
Olympic Stadium - Track
Men's Decathlon 110m Hurdles - Heat 2
Finished
Olympic Stadium - Long Throws
Men's Decathlon Discus Throw - Group A
Finished
Olympic Stadium - Pole Vault A
Men's Decathlon Pole Vault - Group A
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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World Athletics Championships
YearLocationDecathlon
2019Doha, QAT1st (8691)

European Championships
YearLocationDecathlon
2018Berlin, GER4th (8220)

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020
RankYearEventCompetitionLocationResult
82019Javelin ThrowWorld ChallengeBerlin, GER78.49

World Combined Events Challenge
RankEventYearLocationResult
1Decathlon2019Doha, QAT8691
4Decathlon2019Gotzis, AUT8336
4Decathlon2018Berlin, GER8220
5Decathlon2021Gotzis, AUT8263
6Decathlon2018Gotzis, AUT8205
DNFDecathlon2021Ratingen, GERDNF


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
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Skiing. (leichtathletik.de, 01 Jul 2015)
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Athlete, Student
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Teaching - University of Mainz, Germany
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Partner Mareike Rosing
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English, German
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USC Mainz [Germany]
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Stefanie Kaul [mother, personal], AUT; Michael Kaul [father, personal], GER
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His father Michael Kaul competed in athletics at international level for Germany, including in the 400m hurdles at the world championships in 1995. His mother Stefanie Kaul [nee Zotter] represented Austria in athletics, including in the 400m hurdles at the European championships in 1994. His partner Mareike Rosing has represented Germany in heptathlon, including at the junior world championships in 2016. (leichtathletik.de, 01 Jul 2015; allgemeine-zeitung.de, 11 Nov 2019)
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In 2020 he underwent surgery on his left elbow to treat an injury that had affected his throwing arm since 2017. The injury put an early end to his 2020 season. (kicker.de, 09 Jul 2020)
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He played handball and competed in athletics growing up, until age 15 when he decided to focus on athletics. (redbull.com, 01 Oct 2019)
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Both his parents competed in athletics, and encouraged him into sport. (redbull.com, 01 Oct 2019)
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To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (sport1.de, 26 Dec 2019)
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He trains six to eight times a week, for two hours per session. (bild.de, 04 Oct 2019)
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US decathlete Ashton Eaton. (spikes.worldathletics.org, 30 Sep 2019)
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He listens to rock and heavy metal before competitions to get himself pumped up. (bild.de, 04 Oct 2019)
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"Sport is not just the game I play. Sport is who I am, what I am, why I am. It's every second on the clock, every moment I live. Game day or any day." (Instagram profile, 09 Oct 2018)
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In 2019 he was named male Athlete of the Year at the German Sports Personality of the Year awards. In 2019 he was also named male Athlete of the Year by the German athletics magazine and website Leichtathletik, and received a Bambi award, a German media award presented by Hubert Burda Media, in the sports category. (leichtathletik.de, 15 Jan 2020; spiegel.de, 15 Dec 2019; allgemeine-zeitung.de, 11 Nov 2019)

In 2019 he was named European Athletics' men's Rising Star award winner. (european-athletics.org, 01 Nov 2019)

In 2017 he was named the German Sports Aid Foundation [Deutsche Sporthilfe] male Junior Sportperson of the Year. (sportbuzzer.de, 26 Oct 2019)

General Interest

General
PARENTS AND COACHES
He is coached by his parents, Stefanie and Michael Kaul, both former international-level athletics competitors for Austria and Germany, respectively. "It is not possible to separate the roles. My parents are the people I can talk to about everything, but they are also my coaches. We have a very relaxed relationship, even though we train at a high level. My parents never told me to be an athlete just because they both were. They always said that as long as I am happy with what I do, so are they. They have designed my training so that it fits around my studies. It is good for me to have a life outside of sports. I feel that I need this other challenge and I like surrounding myself with people who have nothing to do with sport. I can be just a normal student like them." (fr.de, Dec 26, 2019; bento.de, 12 Dec 2019)

REPRESENTING GERMANY
His father is German, while his mother is Austrian. He considered representing Austria in his youth, but decided to represent the country he was born in. "There were discussions about representing Austria. At the time I could not foresee how things would develop, and it might have been easier to compete for Austria, but I thought, 'I live here in Germany, I grew up here, it would be nice if I could represent Germany'. Besides, I cannot sing the Austrian national anthem." (fr.de, Dec 26, 2019; n-tv.de, 25 Dec 2019)

APPLE SAUCE
He eats German apple sauce in between events when competing, and says he ate over one kilogram during the two-day decathlon event at the world championships in Doha, Qatar in 2019. "I brought it with me from Germany." (watson.de, 04 Oct 2019; t-online.de, 04 Oct 2019)

Legend
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Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
DNF:
Did not finish
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