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Full name
  
Hans Van Alphen

Role
  
Olympic athlete

Country
  
Height
  
1.91 m


Club
  
Vilvoorde AC

Weight
  
92 kg

Name
  
Hans Alphen

Events
  
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Born
  
January 12, 1982 (age 42) (
1982-01-12
)
Turnhout, Belgium

Sport
  
Track and field athletics

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Hans Van Alphen (born 12 January 1982 in Turnhout) is a Belgian decathlete.

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Van Alphen won the silver medal at the 2007 Summer Universiade and finished eleventh at the 2007 World Championships. In 2005, he became Belgian champion in the decathlon. He was the first Belgian decathlete to pass the 8000 points limit.

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In 2008, Van Alphen was a competitor in the decathlon of the Beijing Olympics, but did not finish all the events due to injury.

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He was just below the 8000-point mark at the 2010 Hypo-Meeting, where he came 13th, then he set a personal best score of 8072 points to finish fifth at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona. Continuing in that vein, he set a best in the men's heptathlon at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships, taking ninth place with a total of 5938 points. Turning to the outdoor circuit, he improved a number of event bests at the Hypo-Meeting (including the 100 metres, high jump and long jump) and ended the competition in eleventh place with 8045 points. At the 2011 TNT - Fortuna Meeting in Kladno he put together his best series of results: following a best of 66.21 m in the javelin, he moved up four places in the final 1500 metres to take the runner-up spot behind Leonel Suárez with a decathlon personal best of 8120 points.

In 2012 he won the decathlon at the Hypo-Meeting with a score of 8519. He ended fourth in the decathlon at the 2012 London Olympics. He ended the year with a win at the Decastar.

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References

Hans Van Alphen Wikipedia


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