Kevin Mayer

Honestly, Kevin Mayer might be the most complete athlete on the planet right now, and I don't think he gets nearly enough credit outside track-and-field circles. This guy set the decathlon world record in 2018 — 9,126 points — and it still stands. Ten events across two brutal days: sprinting, hurdling, jumping, vaulting, throwing. You have to be fast AND strong AND technically precise, which is basically an impossible ask, yet Mayer makes it look almost inevitable. Two world championship golds (2017, 2022), two Olympic silvers in Rio and Tokyo — the consistency alone is staggering. He's France's answer to the question of what a perfect human body can do, and watching him compete feels less like a track meet and more like witnessing a very deliberate form of genius.

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Name (English)

Kevin Mayer

Name (Japanese)

ケビン・メイヤー

Reading

けびん・めいやー

Born

February 10, 1992 (age 34)

Origin

Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise, France

Height

185 cm

Occupation

athletics competitor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Monkey

Awards & achievements

• 2016 Knight of the National Order of Merit
• 2018 European Athlete of the Year Trophy
• 2018 Champion des champions français de L'Équipe

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mayer.deca/
• Xhttps://x.com/mayer_decathlon
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Mayer
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B1%E3%83%93%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A4%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3195752

Tags

• Val-d'Oise
• athletics competitor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.