Leo Neugebauer
Leo Neugebauer is a German multi-event track and field athlete. He is the German record holder in the decathlon and indoor heptathlon, World Athletics Championships gold medalist and Olympic silver medalist in the decathlon, having placed second at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Early life
Neugebauer was born in Görlitz and grew up in Stuttgart from the age of six weeks onwards. His mother, Diana, is from Germany, and his father, Terrance, is a football player from Cameroon. He has one sister.Neugebauer joined the athletics club LG Leinfelden-Echterdingen, south of Stuttgart. He moved to the University of Texas at Austin in the United States on a sport scholarship to initially study mechanical engineering in 2019, but later switched to economics. In early 2024 before the Paris Olympics he left LG Leinfelden-Echterdingen and joined VfB Stuttgart.
Career
2022Competing at the 2022 World Athletics Championships Neugebauer finished tenth overall in the men's decathlon.
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. 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. Neugebauer also took the German national record of 8832 set in 1984 by Jürgen Hingsen.
In November 2023, he joined the track and field department of VfB Stuttgart.
2024
In 2024, Neugebauer joined VfB Stuttgart. He won the heptathlon at the NCAA Indoor Championships in March 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts. His tally of 6,347 points added more than 50 points to a German national record that had stood for 22 years. 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.
At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, Neugebauer won the silver medal in the Men's decathlon competition. This was Germany's first Olympic medal in the event since Frank Busemann was also awarded silver at the 1996 games.
2025
He finished fifth at the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis on 1 June 2025 with a tally of 8,555 points.
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.
Competition record
Personal bests
Information from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.Outdoor
| Event | Performance | Location | Date |
| Long jump | Lubbock | 14 May 2022 | |
| High jump | Ulm | 27 July 2019 | |
| Pole vault | Wetzlar | 21 July 2024 | |
| 100 metres | 10.96 | Baton Rouge | 30 April 2022 |
| 100 metres | 10.69 | Austin | 29 April 2023 |
| 110 metres hurdles | 14.40 | Wetzlar | 21 July 2024 |
| 110 metres hurdles | 14.35 | Austin | 29 April 2023 |
| Shot put | Baton Rouge | 30 April 2022 | |
| Discus throw | Walnut | 19 April 2024 |
Indoor
| Event | Performance | Location | Date |
| Long jump | Clemson | 14 January 2022 | |
| High jump | Lubbock | 27 February 2021 | |
| Pole vault | Fayetteville | 22 January 2021 | |
| 60 metres | 7.12 | Clemson | 14 February 2020 |
| 600 metres | 1:20.74 | Clemson | 14 February 2025 |
| 60 metres hurdles | 8.28 | Clemson | 14 January 2022 |
| Shot put | Louisville | 13 January 2024 |