Jürgen Hingsen

Decathletes are the athletes I admire most, two days of running, jumping and throwing demands a near-insane completeness. Jürgen Hingsen, the towering 200 cm German from Duisburg, held the world record in 1982 and again in 1983-84, yet you cannot tell his story without Daley Thompson. Their rivalry was one of the great duels of 1980s track, trading records and never quite letting the other rest. That he later turned to acting only adds to the texture. I see Hingsen as a profoundly human champion, brilliant, relentless, and forever shadowed by the man who kept beating him at the line.

Name (English)

Jürgen Hingsen

Name (Japanese)

ユルゲン・ヒングゼン

Reading

ゆるげん・ひんぐぜん

Born

January 25, 1958 (age 68)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Dog

Origin

Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Height

200 cm

Occupation

athletics competitor / athlete / decathlete / actor

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A6%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%92%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%82%BC%E3%83%B3

Tags

• North Rhine-Westphalia
• athletics competitor
• athlete
• decathlete

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.