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Place of Birth: Turnhout, Flemish Region, Belgium
About Hans Van Alphen
- Hans Van Alphen (born 12 January 1982 in Turnhout) is a Belgian decathlete. Van Alphen won the silver medal at the 2007 Summer Universiade and finished eleventh at the 2007 World Championships.
- In 2005, he became Belgian champion in the decathlon.
- He was the first Belgian decathlete to pass the 8000 points limit.In 2008, Van Alphen was a competitor in the decathlon of the Beijing Olympics, but did not finish all the events due to injury. He was just below the 8000-point mark at the 2010 Hypo-Meeting, where he came 13th, then he set a personal best score of 8072 points to finish fifth at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona.
- Continuing in that vein, he set a best in the men's heptathlon at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships, taking ninth place with a total of 5938 points.
- Turning to the outdoor circuit, he improved a number of event bests at the Hypo-Meeting (including the 100 metres, high jump and long jump) and ended the competition in eleventh place with 8045 points.
- At the 2011 TNT - Fortuna Meeting in Kladno he put together his best series of results: following a best of 66.21 m in the javelin, he moved up four places in the final 1500 metres to take the runner-up spot behind Leonel Suárez with a decathlon personal best of 8120 points.In 2012 he won the decathlon at the Hypo-Meeting with a score of 8519.
- He ended fourth in the decathlon at the 2012 London Olympics.
- He ended the year with a win at the Decastar.
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