Jeff Tesselaar
 Jeff Tesselaar in action at the 300 m during the 2026 Ter Specke Bokaal meeting in Lisse, Netherlands. | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 3 May 2003 | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Decathlon | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | Decathlon: 8378 (Birmingham, 2026) Heptathlon: 5948 (Apeldoorn, 2025) | ||||||||||||||
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Jeff Tesselaar (born 3 May 2003) is a Dutch multi-event athlete. He is a multiple-time Dutch national champion in the long jump. He competed in the decathlon at the 2024 European Athletics Championships and in the indoors heptathlon at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships.[2]
Biography
[edit]He won his first Dutch Athletics Championships title in February 2024 in the long jump, with a jump of 7.63 metres at the Dutch Indoor Athletics Championships.[3] That year, he also won the Dutch Athletics Championships outdoors title in the long jump.[4]
He set a decathlon personal best of 8035 points competing in Tenerife, Spain at the Meeting Internacional Arona Pruebas Combinadas, in May 2024.[5] He competed in the decathlon at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, making his senior major championship debut. He placed twelfth overall with a personal best tally of 8079 points, which included personal best marks in the discus and javelin, as well as a personal best 7.76 metres long jump, and a win in the 1500 metres with a time of 4:16.77. However, in the pole vault round he placed twentieth which set his overall position back significantly.[6][7]
He won the long jump title at the 2025 Dutch Indoor Athletics Championships, with a jump of 7.43 metres in February 2025 in Apeldoorn.[8] He was selected for the heptathlon at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships, held in Apeldoorn,[9] where he finished in eighth place with a new personal best of 5948 points.[10]
He won the silver medal in the decathlon at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway, in July 2025 with 8108 points.[11][12]
Tesselaar jumped 7.44 metres to win the long jump title at the 2026 Dutch Indoor Athletics Championships in Apeldoorn.[13] He was selected for the heptathlon at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Poland in March 2026.[14] During the competition he set a new personal best of 14.23 meters in the shot put.[15] He also set a new personal best for the 1000 meters of 2:32.49 at the Championships, placing seventh overall.[16] In August, he competed at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, England, placing fourth overall in decathlon.[17] He finished the season placed seventh in the 2026 World Athletics Combined Events Tour rankings.[18]
Personal life
[edit]He is from Heerhugowaard in the province of North Holland.[19] He is a member of AAC Amsterdam and studied Economics & Business Economics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.[20] His younger brother, Zeb Tesselaar, also competes in athletics.[21]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Tesselaar bezet tweede plaats halverwege tienkamp op EK: 'Verbaas mezelf ook'" [Tesselaar ranks second halfway the decathlon at European Championships: 'I'm amazing myself']. NOS (in Dutch). 2026-08-12. Retrieved 2026-08-13.
Het hoogspringen, daarop wil de atleet van 2.03 meter zich graag verbeteren.
[In high jump the athlete of 2.03 metres would like to improve himself.] - ↑ "Jeff Tesselaar". World Athletics. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
- ↑ "Dutch Indoor Championships". World Athletics. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
- ↑ "Dutch Championships". World Athletics. 28 June 2024. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
- ↑ "Pineau and Diakite take the spoils in Arona". World Athletics. 12 May 2024. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
- ↑ "Athletics Union sends 59 TeamNL athletes to European Athletics Championships in Rome". Atletiek.nl. 28 May 2024. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
- ↑ "Fraai debuut meerkamper Jeff Tesselaar op EK Atletiek in Rome". Rodi.nl. 12 June 2024. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
- ↑ Roeske, Eric (February 23, 2025). "Dutch world-class athletes shine at National Indoor Championships". hardloopnetwerk.nl. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
- ↑ "46 TeamNL atleten in actie tijdens EK Indoor Atletiek in Apeldoorn". Atletiek.nl. February 25, 2025. Retrieved 25 Feb 2025.
- ↑ "European Athletics Indoor Championships - Results - Men's Heptathlon Short Track". World Athletics. 2025-03-08. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
- ↑ Broadbent, Chris (12 Jul 2025). "Bergen 2025 - Men's Field Preview". European Athletics. Retrieved 16 July 2025.
- ↑ Mills, Steven (18 Jul 2025). "Huber finishes with a flourish to land decathlon gold in Bergen". Eurorpean Athletics. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
- ↑ "2026 National Indoor Athletics Championships in Apeldoorn: champions and other special features". Hardloopnetwerk.nl. 28 Feb 2026. Retrieved 3 March 2026.
- ↑ "23 TeamNL atleten in actie op WK Indoor atletiek". Hardloopnieuws.nl. 10 March 2026. Retrieved 10 March 2026.
- ↑ "Terugblik WK Indoor Atletiek – Dag 1". Hardloopnetwerk. 21 March 2026. Retrieved 21 March 2026.
- ↑ "World Athletics Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 22 March 2026. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
- ↑ "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 10 August 2026. Retrieved 19 August 2026.
- ↑ "Ehammer and Kälin complete historic Swiss double in World Athletics Combined Events Tour". World Athletics. 30 September 2026. Retrieved 1 October 2026.
- ↑ "Jeff Tesselaar uit Heerhugowaard is weer Nederlands beste verspringer". Noordhollandsbagblad.nl. 26 Feb 2025. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
- ↑ Piest, Tijn (June 9, 2024). "Jeff Tesselaar for debut at European Senior Championships: 'Can't wait to get out of my cage'". Hardloopnetwerk.nl. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
- ↑ "Rising Star: Zeb Tesselaar". hardloopnetwerk.nl. 3 Jun 2026. Retrieved 16 July 2026.
