Romain Barras

Romain Barras at the 2010 European Athletics Championships in Barcelona

Romain Barras (born 1 August 1980 in Calais, Pas-de-Calais) is a French decathlete. At the Universiade he finished fifth in 2001 and first in 2003, the latter in a personal best score of 8196 points. He represented France at the 2004 Summer Olympics and came in thirteenth place overall in the decathlon. He became the regional champion at the 2005 Mediterranean Games.

He improved his personal best to 8298 points for third place at the 2007 TNT - Fortuna Meeting.^[1] He finished fifth in the decathlon at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and was twelfth at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. Barras set a personal best of 8313 points to win at the 2010 European Cup Combined Events in Tallinn, Estonia.^[2]

On 29 July 2010, Barras won the decathlon gold medal at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona with a score of 8453. He took part in the 2010 Décastar meeting in September and finished third with 8180 points.^[3]

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  France
2001	European U23 Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	4th	Decathlon	7821 pts
	World Student Games	Beijing, China	5th	Decathlon	7876 pts
2003	World Student Games	Daegu, South Korea	1st	Decathlon	8196 pts
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	13th	Decathlon	8067 pts
2005	Hypo-Meeting	Götzis, Austria	5th	Decathlon	8185 pts
	Mediterranean Games	Almería, Spain	1st	Decathlon	8127 pts
	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	7th	Decathlon	8087 pts
	Décastar	Talence, France	5th	Decathlon	8060 pts
2006	Hypo-Meeting	Götzis, Austria	7th	Decathlon	8138 pts
	European Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	8th	Decathlon	8093 pts
2007	European Indoor Championships	Birmingham, England	6th	Heptathlon	5883 pts
	Hypo-Meeting	Götzis, Austria	10th	Decathlon	8064 pts
2008	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	5th	Decathlon	8253 pts
2009	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	12th	Decathlon	8204 pts
2010	European Championships	Barcelona, Spain	1st	Decathlon	8453 pts
2011	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	11th	Decathlon	8134 pts

References

1. Lubenský, Zdenek (2007-06-21). Sebrle is back on top of the world with an 8697pts score. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-03.
2. Estonia and France are the European Cup Combined Events Super League champions. European Athletics (2010-06-28). Retrieved on 2010-07-03.
3. van Kuijen, Hans (2010-09-19). Suarez and Chernova prevail in Talence - IAAF World Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-09-19.

External links

• Romain Barras profile at IAAF