Sven Roosen


Sven Roosen is a Dutch decathlete. He is a two-time medalist at the European Athletics U23 Championships, winning the silver medal in 2021 and the bronze medal in 2023. He finished fourth overall in the decathlon at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Career

In 2021, he won the silver medal in the decathlon at the European U23 Championship in Tallinn, Estonia. This was the first time he scored over 8000 points for the decathlon.
He became Dutch national champion in the decathlon in Apeldoorn in June 2022 at the 2022 Dutch Athletics Championships. Later that summer, he finished in tenth place at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, Germany, in what was his debut appearance at a senior major competition.
In July 2023, he won the bronze medal at the European U23 Athletics Championships in the decathlon in Espoo, Finland.
He scored a personal best decathlon points tally of 8511 as he finished as runner-up at the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, Austria in May 2024, also achieving the qualifying standard for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Competing at the Olympic Games in August 2024, he achieved fourth place overall in a new personal best and national record of 8607 points. He finished third at the decathlon at the Decastar meeting in Talence, France in September 2024. Also in 2024, he finished fourth overall in the 2024 World Athletics Combined Events Tour.
In September 2025, he competed in the decathlon at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan but was unable to finish the competition.

Personal bests

Information from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.

Outdoor

EventPerformanceLocationDate
150 metres15.62 Lisse7 May 2022
200 metres21.31 Hengelo29 June 2024
300 metres32.96Lisse13 May 2023
800 metres1:58.80Utrecht3 August 2018
400 metres hurdles51.48Schothorst12 September 2020

Personal life

He is from Eindhoven, in the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands. His uncle Marcel Dost is also a decathlete, and participated in the 1996 Olympic Decathlon in Atlanta.