Leo Neugebauer (GER) won the men's decathlon at the European Championships in Birmingham on 13 August with 8611 points, 38 ahead of Niklas Kaul (GER). He led from the second event to the last. Kaul was twentieth after the first.
| # | Athlete | Points | Behind | vs. PB series |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo Neugebauer (GER) | 8611 | -350 | |
| 2 | Niklas Kaul (GER) | 8573 | -38 | -118 |
| 3 | Sander Aae Skotheim (NOR) | 8433 | -178 | -476 |
| 4 | Jeff Tesselaar (NED) | 8378 | -233 | +129 |
| 5 | Karel Tilga (EST) | 8286 | -325 | -395 |
| 6 | Makenson Gletty (FRA) | 8270 | -341 | -336 |
| 7 | Rasmus Roosleht (EST) | 8199 | -412 | -137 |
| 8 | Amadeus Gräber (GER) | 8162 | -449 | -183 |
Nino Portmann (SUI) led after the 100m. Neugebauer took the lead in the long jump and held it through the remaining eight events, at his widest 248 points clear after the pole vault. He went into the 1500m 154 ahead of Kaul and came out of it 38 ahead.
Neugebauer built the win on day 1, taking 4483 points from it and the lead from the second event: 7.82 in the long jump for 1015 and 17.13 in the shot for 921, with 10.90, 1.99 and 48.81 either side of them. Day 2 added 4128. The two events that beat his PB series were the last two, 60.10 in the javelin for 52 points above his series and 4:38.36 for 39 above it, and a 4.90 pole vault against a 5.21 series mark was the one that cost him most. He is the rare winner who scored 350 points under his own series and still had the competition in hand from the second event onward.
Niklas Kaul made the whole competition on the climb. He opened with 11.23 for 810 points, which left him twentieth, and then matched his series almost exactly through the long jump, the shot and the high jump before 47.99 in the 400m for 910 took him to sixth by the day break, 4214 points and 50 above his series, the only one of the top three ahead of it at that point. Day 2 was worth 4359, comfortably the best of the three: 14.73 in the hurdles, 48.88 in the discus, 4.90 in the vault, 73.54 in the javelin for 943 points and 4:20.70 for 807. Sixth to fifth to fourth to second, and 38 short at the end.
Sander Aae Skotheim (NOR) was third overnight on 4382 and third at the finish, twice second along the way. The shot was his one gain of day 1, 14.45 for 29 points above his series, and the discus was the event that turned the competition away from him, 43.23 against a 49.18 series mark for 123 points. He finished on 8433, 476 under his series, the largest shortfall in the top ten.
The improvement of the competition belongs to Jeff Tesselaar (NED). He is the only athlete in the field who finished above his PB series, which is to say the only one who set a personal best, and he did it by 129 points over the 8249 he scored at Götzis in June 2025. All of it was banked on day 1, where he stood 162 up: 7.67 in the long jump against a 7.27 series mark was worth 99 of them and 15.11 in the shot against 13.72 another 85, which put him second after the long jump and no lower than third until the javelin. He closed on 8378 for fourth.
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