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Lindon Victor
OBE
Victor in 2018
Personal information
Born (1993-02-28) 28 February 1993 (age 32)[1]
St. George's, Grenada
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Sport
Country Grenada
SportAthletics
Event
Combined events
University teamTexas A&M Aggies
Achievements and titles
Personal bestsDecathlon: 8,756 (2023) NR
Heptathlon: 6,029 (2022)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Grenada
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Paris Decathlon
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Budapest Decathlon
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Gold Coast Decathlon
Gold medal – first place 2022 Birmingham Decathlon
Pan American Games
Silver medal – second place 2019 Lima Decathlon
CARIFTA Games (U17)
Silver medal – second place 2009 Vieux Fort Discus throw
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Vieux Fort Shot put
CARIFTA Games (U20)
Bronze medal – third place 2010 George Town Heptathlon
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Montego Bay Heptathlon
Gold medal – first place 2012 Hamilton Heptathlon

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

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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.[2] Victor was named 2016 SEC Field Athlete of the Year.[3]

Victor qualified for[4] 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.[5][6] In that same year, he was credited as having the second-best discus throw in decathlon history[7] and the best discus throw in NCAA decathlon history.[8]

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,[9] 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.[10] 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.[11] 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.[12][13] He was subsequently named the SEC Men's Field athlete of the year for the second year in a row.[14]

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.[15][16][17]

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 I decathlon champion – Victor won the decathlon to earn a gold medal for Grenada scoring 8,303 points.[18][19] 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.[20][21][22]

Victor was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to sports.[23]

Personal bests

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Information from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.

Outdoor

As of 29 October 2025
Event Performance Location Date Ref.
Individual events
Long jump 7.24 m (23 ft 9 in) (+0.4 m/s) St. George's 25 June 2016
High jump 1.98 m (6 ft 5+3⁄4 in) St. George's 25 June 2016
Pole vault 4.80 m (15 ft 8+3⁄4 in) Santa Barbara 30 January 2021
100 metres 10.91 (+0.3 m/s) Beaverton 3 May 2019
200 metres 22.91 Baldwin City 5 April 2014
400 metres 49.04 Baton Rouge 30 April 2016
110 metres hurdles 14.64 (+1.2 m/s) Long Beach 7 March 2020
Shot put 16.27 m (53 ft 4+1⁄2 in) Santa Barbara 30 January 2021
Discus throw 55.87 m (183 ft 3+1⁄2 in) Azusa 18 April 2019 [24]
Javelin throw 71.23 m (233 ft 8+1⁄4 in) Emporia 29 March 2014
Combined events
Event Performance Location Date Score
Decathlon — Budapest 25–26 August 2023 8,756 points
100 metres 10.48 (+1.3 m/s) Götzis 18 May 2024 980 points
Long jump 7.73 m (25 ft 4+1⁄4 in) (+1.4 m/s) Götzis 18 May 2024 992 points
Shot put 16.52 m (54 ft 2+1⁄4 in) Austin 29 March 2017 883 points
High jump 2.09 m (6 ft 10+1⁄4 in) Austin 29 March 2017 887 points
400 metres 48.05 Wetzlar 20 July 2024 907 points
110 meters hurdles 14.45 (+1.8 m/s) Columbia 12 May 2017 917 points
Discus throw 55.22 m (181 ft 2 in) Columbia 12 May 2017 980 points
Pole vault 4.92 m (16 ft 1+1⁄2 in) Chula Vista 25 April 2021 886 points
Javelin throw 71.56 m (234 ft 9+1⁄4 in) Tokyo 5 August 2021 913 points
1500 metres 4:39.67 Budapest 26 August 2023 682 points
Virtual Best Performance 9,027 points

Indoor

As of 29 October 2025
Individual events
Event Performance Location Date
Long jump 7.38 m (24 ft 2+1⁄2 in) College Station 17 February 2018
High jump 1.90 m (6 ft 2+3⁄4 in) College Station 23 January 2016
Pole vault 4.57 m (14 ft 11+3⁄4 in) Seattle 26 January 2019
55 metres 6.64 Highland 15 February 2014
60 metres 7.11 Warrensburg 8 February 2014
60 metres hurdles 8.31 College Station 17 February 2018
Shot put 15.24 m (50 ft 0 in) Clemson 11 February 2017
Combined events
Event Performance Location Date Score
Heptathlon — Belgrade 18–19 March 2022 6,029 points
60 metres 6.91 Belgrade 18 March 2022 915 points
Long jump 7.56 m (24 ft 9+1⁄2 in) Belgrade 18 March 2022 950 points
Shot put 16.55 m (54 ft 3+1⁄2 in) College Station 10 March 2017 885 points
High jump 2.07 m (6 ft 9+1⁄4 in)[25] College Station 10 March 2017 868 points
60 metres hurdles 8.24 Fayetteville 27 February 2016 922 points
Pole vault 4.76 m (15 ft 7+1⁄4 in) College Station 11 March 2017 837 points
1000 metres 2:48.21 Belgrade 19 March 2022 784 points
Virtual Best Performance 6,161 points

Competition record

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Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing  Grenada
2009 CARIFTA Games Vieux Fort 3rd Shot put 13.90 m
2nd Discus throw 45.27 m
2010 CARIFTA Games George Town 3rd Heptathlon 4,234 pts
Summer Youth Olympics Singapore 13th Javelin throw 51.61 m
2011 CARIFTA Games Montego Bay 3rd Heptathlon 4,544 pts
2012 CARIFTA Games Hamilton 1st Heptathlon 4,572 pts
2014 NACAC Under-23 Championships British Columbia 6th Javelin throw 65.28 m
2015 Pan American Games Toronto 7th Decathlon 7,453 pts
2016 OECS Track & Field Championships Tortola 10th Long jump 6.51 m[26]
3rd Shot put 14.73 m[26]
2nd Discus throw 48.50 m[26]
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro 16th Decathlon 7,998 pts
2017 World Championships London – Decathlon DNF[27]
2018 World Indoor Championships Birmingham DNF Heptathlon DNF
Commonwealth Games Gold Coast 1st Decathlon 8,303 pts[28]
2019 Pan American Games Lima 2nd Decathlon 8,240 pts[29][30]
World Championships Doha – Decathlon DNF
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo 7th Decathlon 8,414 pts
2022 World Indoor Championships Belgrade – Heptathlon DNF
World Championships Eugene 5th Decathlon 8,474 pts
Commonwealth Games Birmingham 1st Decathlon 8,233 pts
2023 World Championships Budapest 3rd Decathlon 8,756 pts
2024 Olympic Games Paris 3rd Decathlon 8,711 pts
2025 World Championships Tokyo, Japan – Decathlon DNF

References

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  1. ^ a b "VICTOR Lindon". Paris 2024 Olympics. Archived from the original on 16 August 2024. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  2. ^ "Lindon Victor smashes records, qualifies for Rio Olympic Games". GrenadaSports. 13 May 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  3. ^ Victor Named SEC Field Athlete of the Year, KAGS-LD, 1 June 2016, retrieved 5 September 2016
  4. ^ "Another Grenadian Athlete goes in the record books". 14 May 2016.
  5. ^ "Rio closing ceremony flag bearers" (PDF). stillmed.olympic.org. 2016. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  6. ^ Lindon Victor at World Athletics Edit this at Wikidata
  7. ^ Croome, Richard (5 August 2016). "Aggie decathlete ready to compete at Olympics". theeagle.com.
  8. ^ "Collegiate javelin record for Maggie Malone, NCAA decathlon title for Lindon Victor". 12thman.com. 9 June 2016.
  9. ^ "TFRRS | NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships Track & Field Meet Results". www.tfrrs.org.
  10. ^ "Lindon Victor scores first day collegiate best 4,516 points in Texas Relays decathlon". Texas A&M Athletics – Home of the 12th Man.
  11. ^ "Texas A&M's Lindon Victor Breaks Collegiate Decathlon Record ::: USTFCCCA".
  12. ^ "He Did It Again! Lindon Victor Betters Collegiate Decathlon Record ::: USTFCCCA".
  13. ^ Price, TAMU Sports Information Department/Shawn. "Lindon Victor breaks his collegiate record to defend SEC decathlon title". www.kbtx.com.
  14. ^ "SEC Outdoor honors for Lindon Victor, Jaevin Reed and Coach Pat Henry". Texas A&M Athletics – Home of the 12th Man.
  15. ^ "Christian Coleman Wins The Bowerman In 2017 ::: The Bowerman: The Nation's Top Award for Collegiate Track & Field Athletes".
  16. ^ "The Bowerman: What's At Stake In 2017 ::: The Bowerman: The Nation's Top Award for Collegiate Track & Field Athletes".
  17. ^ "Bowerman men's award goes to Tennessee's Christian Coleman over Aggie pair". www.kbtx.com.
  18. ^ Gold Coast 2018: Lindon Victor wins, Damian Warner's title defense ends in pole vault The Malta Independent 10 April 2018
  19. ^ Result: Grenada's Lindon Victor wins decathlon gold Sports Mole news. 10 April 2018
  20. ^ "Vidales Takes Home Distinguished Letterman's Award at 2018 BCAs". Texas A&M Athletics – Home of the 12th Man.
  21. ^ Report, Eagle Staff. "Senior Tori Vidales wins Distinguished Letterman Award at Building Champions Awards". The Eagle.
  22. ^ "Lindon Victor: Grenada's Most Recent Golden Boy". 4 May 2018.
  23. ^ "No. 64271". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2023. p. N50.
  24. ^ "Ehrhardt Sets Decathlon Best & #2 U.S. Mark at Bryan Clay Invitational". santabarbaratc.com. Archived from the original on 2 May 2019. Retrieved 29 October 2025. In individual competition, Lindon Victor (GRN), set a personal best in the Discus with a throw of 55.87m / 183'3". Should he have hit that mark in a Decathlon, Victor would have tied the meet's namesake, Bryan Clay, for the Decathlon event record, which he set in 2005 at the U.S. Championships.
  25. ^ "Combined Event Total Scores: Heptathlon". ncaa.com. 11 March 2017.
  26. ^ a b c "OECS Championships – Complete Results". MileSplit BVI. 4 July 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  27. ^ 2017 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon results IAAF
  28. ^ GRENADA’S LINDON VICTOR WINS DECATHLON GOLD AT COMMONWEALTH GAMES Grenada broadcast. 10 April 2018
  29. ^ "Victor Earns Silver Medal at Pan American Games". www.santabarbaratc.com/. Saint Barbara Track Club. 7 August 2019. Archived from the original on 23 September 2019. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  30. ^ 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.
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