Silver for Sintnicolaas in European decathlon

Eelco Sintnicolaas has become the Netherlands’ first medal winner at the European athletics championship in Barcelona with a silver medal in the decathlon.


Romain Barras of France won the event with a total of 8,453 points, just 17 more than Sintnicolaas, while Belarussian Andrei Krauchanka was third.

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