DECATHLON HANDBOOK & MEDIA GUIDE 25th THORPE CUP USA vs GERMANY TEAM DECATHLON Knoxville, Tennessee July 27-28, 2018 by: Frank Zarnowski The Decathlon Association www.decathlonusa.typepad.com
[email protected] as of July 25, 2018 TABLE of CONTENTS SECTION #1 BACKGROUND (pp 2-4) Team Rosters: USA, Germany Page 2 Time Schedule 2 Meet History 2 Previous Team and Individual Medalists 3-4 Individual Meet Records 4 SECTION #2 PAST RESULTS (pp 5-8) Past Results 5-8 2017 and 2016 5 2015 and 2014 6 2013 and 2012 7 2011 and 2010 8 SECTION #3 EVENT RECORDS (pp 8-10) Individual Event Records: 9-10 World 8 American 8 Collegiate 9 German 10 Thorpe Cup Meet, 10 SECTION #4 DELEGATIONS (pp 11-21) USA Delegation: 11-20 Markus Ballengee 11 Steven Bastien 12 Charlie Card-Childers 13 Timothy Erhardt 14 Derek Jacobus 15 Solomon Simmons 16 Tim Wunderlich 17-18 Kip Janvrin, Head Coach 19 Petros Kyprianou, Assistant Coach 20 John Green, Team Lead 21 German Delegation: 22-23 Lennard Biere 22 Luca Dieckmann 22 Manuel Eitel 22 Felix Hepperle 22 Tim Nowak 22 Florian Obst 22 Niklas Ransiek 22 Stefan Press, Coach 22 Georg Zwirner, Coach 22 Herrmann Holzfuss, Team Lead 23 SECTION #5 Local Organizing Committee 24 SECTION #6 Personal Best Page 25 Page 1 SECTION 1- BACKGROUND ROSTERS- U S A Name affiliation age hometown PR score seasonal best Ballengee, Markus Liberty U’20 20 Moneta, VA 7722 (’18) 7722 Bastien, Steven Michigan’17 23 Saline, MI 8015 (’17) 6817 Card-Childers, Charlie Rice U’19 23 Houston, TX 7380 (’18) 7380 Erhardt, Timothy Michigan State’18 23 Addison,