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Hauttekeete and the unexpected world record | FEATURE | WJC 21

Belgian decathlete Jente Hauttekeete (© AFP / Getty Images)
When 18-year-old Jente Hauttekeete lined up for a low-key heptathlon in Frankfurt on 13 February, his goal was simply to get close to the Belgian U20 record.
Instead, he stole the show, collected the national U20 record, and with a score of 6062 became the first ever U20 athlete to exceed 6000 points, breaking the 11-year-old world U20 heptathlon record.
The spotlight in Frankfurt was due to be on the duel between 2020 German indoor champion Andreas Bechmann and European U20 decathlon champion Simon Ehammer from Switzerland, both of whom were seeking to qualify for the European Indoors in Torun a few weeks later. Ehammer had made the last-minute decision to compete after no-heighting in the pole vault the previous weekend. But at the end of the first day of competition, the attention had shifted away from the senior athletes and towards the young Belgian in the field, as rumours began to circulate of a world U20 record.

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