Lindon Victor

Lindon Victor

Personal information
Born	(1993-02-28) 28 February 1993 St. George's, Grenada
Sport
Country	Grenada
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Combined events
University team	Texas A&M Aggies
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	Decathlon: 8539 Heptathlon ind.: 5976,College Station, USA
Medal record Men's athletics Representing  Grenada Commonwealth Games 2018 Gold Coast 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 (born 23 February 1993) is a Grenadian athlete who competes in the decathlon. 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 emarked 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]

Personal bests

Event	Result	Venue	Date
Outdoor
100 m	10.60 s (wind: +0.9 m/s)	Eugene, Oregon	08 Jun 2016
Long jump	7.37 m (wind: +1.6 m/s)	Austin, Texas	29 Mar 2017
Shot put	16.52 m	Austin, Texas	29 Mar 2017
High jump	2.09 m	Austin, Texas	29 Mar 2017
400 m	48.24 s	Austin, Texas	29 Mar 2017
110 m hurdles	14.45 s (wind: +1.8 m/s)	Columbia, South Carolina	12 May 2017
Discus throw	55.22 m	Columbia, South Carolina	12 May 2017
Pole vault	4.70 m	Columbia, South Carolina	12 May 2017
Javelin throw	71.23 m	Emporia, Kansas	29 Mar 2014
1500 m	4:43.81 min	Eugene, Oregon	09 Jun 2016
Decathlon	8539 pts	Columbia, South Carolina	12 May 2017
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	8.38 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	2nd	Discus throw	45.27m
			3rd	Shot put	13.90 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
2016	OECS Track & Field Championships	Tortola, British Virgin Islands	3rd	Shot put	14.73 m[21]
			2nd	Discus throw	48.50 m[21]
			10th	Long jump	6.51 m[21]
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	16th	Decathlon	7998 pts
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	–	Decathlon	DNF[22]
2018	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	DNF	Heptathlon	DNF
	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	1st	Decathlon	8303[23]

References

External links

• Lindon Victor at IAAF
• All-athletics profile
• Lindon Victor News