Lindon Victor

Lindon Victor

OBE

Personal information
Born	(1993-02-28) 28 February 1993 (age 31) St. George's, Grenada
Sport
Country	Grenada
Sport	Athletics
Event	Combined events
University team	Texas A&M Aggies
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	Decathlon: 8756 Budapest NR Heptathlon ind.: 5976,College Station, USA
Medal record Men's athletics Representing  Grenada World Championships 2023 Budapest Decathlon Commonwealth Games 2018 Gold Coast Decathlon 2022 Birmingham Decathlon Pan American Games 2019 Lima Decathlon CARIFTA Games (U17) 2009 Vieux Fort Discus throw 2009 Vieux Fort Shot put CARIFTA Games (U20) 2010 George Town Heptathlon 2011 Montego Bay Heptathlon 2012 Hamilton Heptathlon

Lindon Victor OBE (born 28 February 1993) is a Grenadian athlete who competes in the decathlon. He is the 2023 World bronze medalist and a two-time Commonwealth Games champion (2018–2022).

Career

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 May 11–12 Lindon remarked on the defense of his SEC Champions Decathlon title and was not only successful in the defense but 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 3 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 January 5, 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 April 30, 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

Event	Result	Venue	Date
Outdoor
100 m	10.56 s (wind: +1.1 m/s)	Götzis, Austria	25 May 2019
Long jump	7.55 m (wind: +1.0 m/s)	Budapest, Hungary	25 Aug 2023
Shot put	16.52 m	Austin, Texas	29 Mar 2017
High jump	2.09 m	Austin, Texas	29 Mar 2017
400 m	48.05 s	Budapest, Hungary	25 Aug 2023
110 m hurdles	14.45 s (wind: +1.8 m/s)	Columbia, South Carolina	12 May 2017
Discus throw	55.87 m	Azusa, California	18 April 2019
Pole vault	4.92 m NR	Chula Vista, California	25 April 2021
Javelin throw	71.56 m	Tokyo, Japan	5 Aug 2021
1500 m	4:39.67 min	Budapest, Hungary	26 Aug 2023
Decathlon	8756 pts NR	Budapest, Hungary	26 Aug 2023
Indoor
60 m	6.94 s	Nashville, TN	24 Feb 2017
Long jump	7.38 m	College Station, TX	17 Feb 2018
Shot put	16.55 m	College Station, TX	10 Mar 2017
High jump	2.07 m	College Station, TX	10 Mar 2017
60 m hurdles	8.24 s	Fayetteville, AR	26 Feb 2016
Pole vault	4.76 m	College Station, TX	11 Mar 2017
1000 m	2:51.14 min	College Station, TX	11 Mar 2017
Heptathlon	5976 pts	College Station, TX	11 Mar 2017

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Grenada
2009	CARIFTA Games	Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia	3rd	Shot put	13.90 m
			2nd	Discus throw	45.27 m
2010	CARIFTA Games	George Town, Cayman Islands	3rd	Heptathlon	4234 pts
	Summer Youth Olympics	Singapore	13th	Javelin throw	51.61 m
2011	CARIFTA Games	Montego Bay, Jamaica	3rd	Heptathlon	4544 pts
2012	CARIFTA Games	Hamilton, Bermuda	1st	Heptathlon	4572 pts
2014	NACAC Under-23 Championships	British Columbia, Canada	6th	Javelin throw	65.28 m
2015	Pan American Games	Toronto, Canada	7th	Decathlon	7453 pts
2016	OECS Track & Field Championships	Tortola, British Virgin Islands	10th	Long jump	6.51 m[22]
			3rd	Shot put	14.73 m[22]
			2nd	Discus throw	48.50 m[22]
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	16th	Decathlon	7998 pts pts
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	–	Decathlon	DNF[23]
2018	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	DNF	Heptathlon	DNF
	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	1st	Decathlon	8303 pts[24]
2019	Pan American Games	Lima, Peru	2nd	Decathlon	8240 pts[25][26]
	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	–	Decathlon	DNF
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	7th	Decathlon	8414 pts
2022	World Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	–	Heptathlon	DNF
	World Championships	Eugene, United States	5th	Decathlon	8474 pts
	Commonwealth Games	Birmingham, England	1st	Decathlon	8233 pts
2023	World Championships	Budapest, Hungary	3rd	Decathlon	8756 pts

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