Leo Neugebauer (born 19 June 2000) is a German multi-event track and field athlete. He is the German record holder in the decathlon and indoor heptathlon[3], World Athletics Championships gold medalist and Olympic silver medalist in the decathlon, having placed second at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Neugebauer was born in Görlitz and grew up in Stuttgart from the age of six weeks onwards.[4][5] His mother, Diana, is from Germany, and his father, Terrance, is a football player from Cameroon.[6][5] He has one sister.[citation needed]
Neugebauer joined the athletics club LG Leinfelden-Echterdingen, south of Stuttgart.[7] He moved to the University of Texas at Austin in the United States on a sport scholarship to initially study mechanical engineering in 2019,[5] but later switched to economics.[8]. In early 2024 before the Paris Olympics he left LG Leinfelden-Echterdingen and joined VfB Stuttgart.
2022
Competing at the 2022 World Athletics Championships Neugebauer finished tenth overall in the men's decathlon.[9]
2023
Competing in the NCAA Championships for the University of Texas in June 2023, Neugebauer set a new collegiate record for the decathlon, with a points tally of 8,836 points that placed him in the top-10 of all time. The previous collegiate record of 8720 was set by Kyle Garland in 2022. Neugebauer also broke the meet record of 8457 set by Ashton Eaton in 2010 and equalled by Ayden Owens-Delerme in 2022.[10] He earned personal bests in seven of the ten events, and his tally would have been enough to triumph at the previous years’ World Athletics Championships.[11] Neugebauer also took the German national record of 8832 set in 1984 by Jürgen Hingsen.[12]
In November 2023, he joined the track and field department of VfB Stuttgart.[13]
2024
In 2024, Neugebauer joined VfB Stuttgart.[14] He won the heptathlon at the NCAA Indoor Championships in March 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts.[15] His tally of 6,347 points added more than 50 points to a German national record that had stood for 22 years.[16] He also won the decathlon at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships in a new collegiate and national record of 8,961 points. Additionally, he set the world decathlon best in the discus throw with a throw of 57.70 m.[17]
At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, Neugebauer won the silver medal in the Men's decathlon competition.[18][19] This was Germany's first Olympic medal in the event since Frank Busemann was also awarded silver at the 1996 games.[20][21]
2025
He finished fifth at the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis on 1 June 2025 with a tally of 8,555 points.[22]
On September 21, 2025, Neugebauer won a gold medal for decathlon with 8,804 points at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, winning by twenty points ahead of Ayden Owens-Delerme of Puerto Rico.[23]
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | World Championships | Eugene | 10th | Decathlon | 8,182 points | |
| 2023 | World Championships | Budapest | 5th | Decathlon | 8,645 points | |
| 2024 | Olympic Games | Paris | 2nd | Decathlon | 8,748 points | |
| 2025 | World Championships | Tokyo | 1st | Decathlon | 8,804 points |
Information from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.
Outdoor
| Event | Performance | Location | Date | Score | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decathlon | — | Eugene | June 5–6, 2024 | 8,961 points | — |
| 100 meters | 10.61 (−0.3 m/s) | Austin | June 7, 2023 | 949 points | [24] |
| Long jump | 8.00 m (26 ft 2+3⁄4 in) (−0.1 m/s) | Budapest | August 25, 2023 | 1,061 points | [25] |
| Shot put | 17.46 m (57 ft 3+1⁄4 in) | Eugene | June 5, 2024 | 942 points | [26] |
| High jump | 2.07 m (6 ft 9+1⁄4 in) | Filderstadt | June 2, 2018 | 868 points | |
| 400 meters | 47.08 | Austin | June 7, 2023 | 954 points | [24] |
| 110 meters hurdles | 14.33 (+1.3 m/s) | Austin | March 30, 2023 | 932 points | |
| Discus throw | 56.15 m (184 ft 2+1⁄2 in) | Tokyo | September 21, 2025 | 1,053 points | [27] |
| Pole vault | 5.21 m (17 ft 1 in) | Austin | June 8, 2023 | 976 points | |
| Javelin throw | 64.34 m (211 ft 1 in) | Tokyo | September 21, 2025 | 803 points | [28] |
| 1500 meters | 4:31.89 | Tokyo | September 21, 2025 | 732 points | [28] |
| Virtual Best Performance | 9,216 points | — | |||
Indoor
| Event | Performance | Location | Date | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heptathlon | — | Boston | March 8–9, 2024 | 6,265 points |
| 60 meters | 6.96 | Albuquerque | February 2, 2024 | 897 points |
| Long jump | 7.87 m (25 ft 9+3⁄4 in) | Fayetteville | March 11, 2021 | 1,027 points |
| Shot put | 15.94 m (52 ft 3+1⁄2 in) | Lubbock | January 29, 2021 | 848 points |
| High jump | 2.09 m (6 ft 10+1⁄4 in) | Boston | March 8, 2024 | 887 points |
| 60 meters hurdles | 8.17 | Boston | January 27, 2024 | 939 points |
| Pole vault | 5.05 m (16 ft 6+3⁄4 in) | Fayetteville | January 22, 2021 | 926 points |
| 1000 meters | 2:43.55 | Albuquerque | March 11, 2023 | 834 points |
| Virtual Best Performance | 6,358 points | |||
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