Lindon Victor
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Born | St. George's, Grenada | 28 February 1993||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Combined events | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University team | Texas A&M Aggies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal bests | Decathlon: 8756 Budapest NR Heptathlon ind.: 5976,College Station, USA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Lindon Victor OBE (born 28 February 1993) is a Grenadian athlete who competes in the decathlon. He is the 2023 World and 2024 Olympic bronze medalist and a two-time Commonwealth Games champion (2018–2022).
Career
[edit]Victor began his college career at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, later transferring to Texas A&M University. In 2016, he scored 8446 points with nine personal bests at the Southeastern Conference Championship decathlon, breaking both the SEC record and the Grenadian National Record, the latter of which was set by his brother, Kurt Felix, at the 2015 IAAF World Championships.[1] Victor was named 2016 SEC Field Athlete of the Year.[2]
Victor qualified for[3] and represented Grenada at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the decathlon. He placed sixteenth with a score of 7998 points. Victor was the flag bearer for Grenada for the closing of the games.[4][5] In that same year he was credited as having second best discus throw in decathlon history.[6]
Lindon started his 2017 season with indoor events. He improved his personal best performances in the (indoor) 60 meter sprint, High Jump, Shot Put, Pole Vault and 1000 Meter run. He also set a personal best in the Heptathlon indoor with an overall score of 5976,[7] this was 10 points shy of the national record held by Kurt Felix. On 29 March 2017, Lindon set the highest collegiate first day score in the decathlon with a total of 4,516 points in Texas Relays decathlon.[8] On the next day Victor completed with a score of 8472. This was not only yet another National and OECS Record for Victor, but it was also a new Collegiate Outdoor Decathlon Record, erasing the old mark of 8465, which was set by Trey Hardee, in 2006.[9] On 11–12 May, Lindon remarked on the defense of his SEC Champions Decathlon title and was successful in the defense and bettered the National Record in the Pole Vault. He was also able to improve on his Collegiate record with a new mark of 8539 points.[10][11] He was subsequently named the SEC Men's Field athlete of the year for the second year in a row.[12]
The end of 2017 found Lindon being among the final three nominees for that year's Bowerman Award, which is an annual track and field award that is the highest accolade given to the year's best student-athlete in American collegiate track and field. He eventually lost out to American Sprinter Christian Coleman.[13][14][15]
On 5 January 2018, at the National Sports Awards, Lindon was named 2017 Sportsman of the Year.
Victor was competing at his second major international meet since graduating from Texas A&M, where he set an all-time collegiate record with 8,539 points and was a two-time NCAA Division 1 decathlon champion – Victor won the decathlon to earn a gold medal for Grenada scoring 8,303 points.[16][17] On 30 April, during Texas A&M Athletics' fifth-annual Building Champions Awards gala held in the Hall of Champions at Kyle Field. Athlete of the Year honor(male) was awarded to Lindon.[18][19][20]
Victor was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to sports.[21]
Personal bests
[edit]Event | Result | Venue | Date |
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Outdoor | |||
100 m | 10.56 s (wind: +1.1 m/s) | ![]() |
25 May 2019 |
Long jump | 7.55 m (wind: +1.0 m/s) | ![]() |
25 August 2023 |
Shot put | 16.52 m | ![]() |
29 March 2017 |
High jump | 2.09 m | ![]() |
29 March 2017 |
400 m | 48.05 s | ![]() |
25 August 2023 |
110 m hurdles | 14.45 s (wind: +1.8 m/s) | ![]() |
12 May 2017 |
Discus throw | 55.87 m | ![]() |
18 April 2019 |
Pole vault | 4.92 m NR | ![]() |
25 April 2021 |
Javelin throw | 71.56 m | ![]() |
5 August 2021 |
1500 m | 4:39.67 min | ![]() |
26 August 2023 |
Decathlon | 8756 pts NR | ![]() |
26 August 2023 |
Indoor | |||
60 m | 6.94 s | ![]() |
24 February 2017 |
Long jump | 7.38 m | ![]() |
17 February 2018 |
Shot put | 16.55 m | ![]() |
10 March 2017 |
High jump | 2.07 m | ![]() |
10 March 2017 |
60 m hurdles | 8.24 s | ![]() |
26 February 2016 |
Pole vault | 4.76 m | ![]() |
11 March 2017 |
1000 m | 2:51.14 min | ![]() |
11 March 2017 |
Heptathlon | 5976 pts | ![]() |
11 March 2017 |
Competition record
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Lindon Victor smashes records, qualifies for Rio Olympic Games". GrenadaSports. 13 May 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
- ^ Victor Named SEC Field Athlete of the Year, KAGS-LD, 1 June 2016, retrieved 5 September 2016
- ^ "Another Grenadian Athlete goes in the record books". 14 May 2016.
- ^ "Rio closing ceremony flag bearers" (PDF). stillmed.olympic.org. 2016. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- ^ Lindon Victor at World Athletics
- ^ CROOME, RICHARD. "Aggie decathlete ready to compete at Olympics". The Eagle.
- ^ "TFRRS | NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships Track & Field Meet Results". www.tfrrs.org.
- ^ "Lindon Victor scores first day collegiate best 4,516 points in Texas Relays decathlon". Texas A&M Athletics – Home of the 12th Man.
- ^ "Texas A&M's Lindon Victor Breaks Collegiate Decathlon Record ::: USTFCCCA".
- ^ "He Did It Again! Lindon Victor Betters Collegiate Decathlon Record ::: USTFCCCA".
- ^ Price, TAMU Sports Information Department/Shawn. "Lindon Victor breaks his collegiate record to defend SEC decathlon title". www.kbtx.com.
- ^ "SEC Outdoor honors for Lindon Victor, Jaevin Reed and Coach Pat Henry". Texas A&M Athletics – Home of the 12th Man.
- ^ "Christian Coleman Wins The Bowerman In 2017 ::: The Bowerman: The Nation's Top Award for Collegiate Track & Field Athletes".
- ^ "The Bowerman: What's At Stake In 2017 ::: The Bowerman: The Nation's Top Award for Collegiate Track & Field Athletes".
- ^ "Bowerman men's award goes to Tennessee's Christian Coleman over Aggie pair". www.kbtx.com.
- ^ Gold Coast 2018: Lindon Victor wins, Damian Warner's title defense ends in pole vault The Malta Independent 10 April 2018
- ^ Result: Grenada's Lindon Victor wins decathlon gold Sports Mole news. 10 April 2018
- ^ "Vidales Takes Home Distinguished Letterman's Award at 2018 BCAs". Texas A&M Athletics – Home of the 12th Man.
- ^ Report, Eagle Staff. "Senior Tori Vidales wins Distinguished Letterman Award at Building Champions Awards". The Eagle.
- ^ "Lindon Victor: Grenada's Most Recent Golden Boy". 4 May 2018.
- ^ "No. 64271". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2023. p. N50.
- ^ a b c "OECS Championships – Complete Results". MileSplit BVI. 4 July 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
- ^ 2017 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon results IAAF
- ^ GRENADA’S LINDON VICTOR WINS DECATHLON GOLD AT COMMONWEALTH GAMES Grenada broadcast. 10 April 2018
- ^ "Victor Earns Silver Medal at Pan American Games". www.santabarbaratc.com/. Saint Barbara Track Club. 7 August 2019. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ Strong, Gregory (7 August 2019). "Warner defends title, LePage grabs bronze in Pan Am decathlon". www.cbc.ca/. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
External links
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- Lindon Victor at World Athletics
- All-athletics profile
- Lindon Victor News
- Lindon Victor at Tilastopaja (registration required)
- Lindon Victor at Olympics.com
- Lindon Victor at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- Lindon Victor at Olympedia
- Lindon Victor at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
- Lindon Victor at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- 1993 births
- Living people
- Grenadian decathletes
- Grenadian male javelin throwers
- Grenadian male discus throwers
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Grenada
- Olympic decathletes
- Olympic athletes for Grenada
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Grenada
- Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Grenada
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists in athletics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Texas A&M Aggies men's track and field athletes
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners
- People from St. George's, Grenada
- Benedictine Ravens men's track and field athletes
- Olympic bronze medalists for Grenada