Place of Birth: Argenteuil, France
Date of Birth: 10 February, 1992
Ethnicity: German, French, Yenish
Kevin Mayer is a French athlete. He specializes in decathlon and indoor heptathlon. He is a two-time world champion, in 2017 and 2022, a two-time Olympic silver medalist, with the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and the world record holder in the decathlon, since 2018. He is also a world- and three time-European champion in heptathlon.
Kevin is the son of Carole and André Mayer. He is from a Yenish family. His paternal family and German surname have their origin in Farschviller, in the north-eastern region of Lorraine, where his father grew up; some of his relatives still live in the Moselle department, next to the border with Germany. He has three brothers: Thibault, Thomas, and Sébastien. He was raised in La Roche-de-Glun, a small town by the Rhône river, in the southeast of the country in Drôme department, where his parents still live.
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