DECATHLON HANDBOOK & MEDIA GUIDE

25th THORPE CUP USA vs TEAM

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, IL 8044 (’18) 8044 Jacobus, Derek Arkansas’18 23 Palo, IA 7635 (’17) 7555 Simmons, Solomon Eastern Michigan’16 24 Murrieta, CA 8019 (’18) 8019 Wunderlich, Tim Shore AC (Dartmouth’09) 31 Westminster, MD 7636 (’12) 7289

Coaches: Kip Janvrin, University of Central Missouri; Petros Kyprianou, University of Georgia Staff: John Green (Team Leader), Aric Warren (Certified Athletic Trainer), Rosalie Franek (Licensed Massage Therapist), Karl Eagleman (USATF) Terry Lovely (USATF), Ed Gorman (USATF), Travis Geopfert (University of Tennessee, Local Organizing Committee)

GERMANY Name affiliation age hometown PR score seasonal best Biere, Lennard 21 7297 (’18) 7297 Dieckmann, Luca 20 7496 (’18) 7496 Eitel, Manuel SSV Ulm 21 Ulm 8121 (’18) 8121 Hepperle, Felix LG Neckar-Enz 27 7699 (’17) 7536 Nowak, Tim 22 8057 (’18) 8057 Obst, Florian 25 8012 (’18) 8012 Ransiek, Niklas 20 7446 (’18) 7446

Coaches: Stefan Press, Georg Zwirner Staff: Hermann Holzfuss (Team Leader)

Meet Schedule: Friday- July 27, 20178 Saturday- July 28, 2018 Introduction of teams 100 meters 110m Hurdles Discus Javelin 400 meters 1500 meters

Thorpe Cup History

Now the world’s most important nation vs. nation team decathlon, this meet has been variously called the VISA CUP Meet or the JEEP Challenge. And in 2007 officially took the name of The Thorpe Cup in honor of 1912 Olympic Decathlon Champion , Carlisle, PA The concept of an annual team match was initially conceived by VISA-USA team coach Harry Marra and Team Zehnkampf coach Claus Marek in 1993. This is the 25th of a series of annual international team between the USA and Germany. The US teams holds a 14-10 W-L advantage by breaking a 6 year losing streak last year in Fayetteville, AR. Team USA went 1-2-3-4-5 in 2016 led by a terrific Scott Filip/Harrison Williams dual. Team Germany struck back on their home turf in Dusseldorf with a decisive victory by almost the same score differential that almost equaled the USA victory margin in Fayetteville. In the current series, the fi