Janek Õiglane (born 25 April 1994 in Rakvere) is an Estonian Olympic decathlete. He has competed at multiple major championships and competed at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, finishing in fifth place.
Career He won a bronze medal at the 2015 European U23 Championships. He competed for Estonia and placed nineteenth overall at the 2015 World Athletics Championships in Beijing, China with 7581 points.
He placed fourth overall at the 2017 World Athletics Championships in London, England, with a lifetime best of 8371 points, including a javelin throw personal best of 71.73 metres. He moved in late 2017 to work with coach Andrei Nazarov. He also spent three months with the Estonian Army in 2018 before a heel and hamstring injury ruled him out of the 2018 season. He set a personal best tally of 6085 points in the indoor heptathlon Tallinn, in 2019 to become the eighth Estonian all-time to go over 6000 points, and qualified for the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow but was ruled out by a freak injury landing a pole vault jump. He finished in sixth place at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha with 8297 points, his efforts included going sub-11 seconds for the first time in the 100 metres with a time of 10.94 seconds, a lifetime 400m best of 49.14, and a new javelin personal best of 72.46m.
He did not complete the decathlon at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon. He won a bronze medal in the decathlon at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, Germany. He finished in sixth place at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary with a personal best total of 8,524 points, and gained the automatic qualification standard for the Olympic Games the following year, for his Olympic debut.
He withdrew from the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024 after suffering a knee injury in the long jump. He set a new personal best score of 8572 points in the decathlon in Paris to finish fifth at the 2024 Olympic Games. He was given the honour of carrying the Estonian flag at the closing ceremony of the Games.
Personal life He and Kendra married in 2022. In February 2025, he announced on social media that they were expecting their first child.
International competitions Representing 2011World Youth ChampionshipsLille11thJavelin throw (700g)64.70 mEuropean Youth Olympic FestivalTrabzon7thJavelin throw (700g)68.50 m2013European Junior ChampionshipsRieti4thDecathlon (junior)7604 pts2015European U23 ChampionshipsTallinn3rdDecathlon7945 ptsWorld ChampionshipsBeijing19thDecathlon7581 pts2016European ChampionshipsAmsterdam12thDecathlon7762 pts2017World ChampionshipsLondon4thDecathlon8371 pts2019European Indoor ChampionshipsGlasgow –HeptathlonDNFWorld ChampionshipsDoha6thDecathlon8297 pts2022World ChampionshipsEugene –DecathlonDNFEuropean ChampionshipsMunich3rdDecathlon8346 pts2023World ChampionshipsBudapest6thDecathlon8524 pts2024European ChampionshipsRome –DecathlonDNFOlympic GamesParis 5thDecathlon8572 pts2025World ChampionshipsTokyo, Japan –DecathlonDNF
Personal bests Information from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.
Outdoor
Event Performance Location Date Points Decathlon Paris 2–3 August 2024 8,572 points 100 meters 10.89 (+1.2 m/s) Knoxville 7 April 2022 895 points Long jump (+0.3 m/s) Budapest 23 August 2023 927 points Shot put Rakvere 26 July 2019 813 points High jump 2.05 Eugene 23 July 2022 850 points 400 meters Paris 2 August 2024 908 points 110 meters hurdles 14.33 (+1.6 m/s) Knoxville 8 April 2022 932 points Discus throw Tallinn 27 June 2021 796 points Pole vault Paris 3 August 2024 1,004 points Javelin throw Doha 3 October 2019 923 points 1500 meters 4:23.43 Budapest 26 August 2023 788 points Virtual Best Performance 8,827 points
Event Performance Location Date 200 meters 23.60 (-0.1 m/s) Tallinn 18 May 2014 800 meters 1:58.20 Espoo 19 May 2012 Triple jump 14.20 (+1.1 m/s) Rakvere 22 July 2012
Indoor
Event Performance Location Date Points Heptathlon Tallinn 2–3 February 2019 6,085 points 60 meters 7.07 Tallinn 2 February 2019 858 points Long jump Tallinn 2 February 2019 857 points Shot put Glasgow 2 March 2019 820 points High jump Glasgow 2 February 2019 813 points 60 meters hurdles 8.05 Tallinn 2 January 2022 969 points Pole vault Tallinn 3 February 2019 969 points 1000 meters 2:44.37 Tallinn 14 February 2016 825 points Virtual Best Performance 6,150 points
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