# Lindon Victor

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

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. Victor was named 2016 SEC Field Athlete of the Year.
Victor qualified for 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. In that same year, he was credited as having the second-best discus throw in decathlon history and the best discus throw in NCAA decathlon history.
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, 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. 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. 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. He was subsequently named the SEC Men's Field athlete of the year for the second year in a row.
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.
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 1 decathlon champion – Victor won the decathlon to earn a gold medal for Grenada scoring 8,303 points. 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.
Victor was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to sports.

## Personal bests

| Event | Result | Venue | Date |
| Outdoor ||||
| 100 m | 10.56 s (wind: +1.1 m/s) | Götzis, Austria | 25 May 2019 |
| Long jump | 7.55 m (wind: +1.0 m/s) | Budapest, Hungary | 25 August 2023 |
| Shot put | 16.52 m | Austin, Texas | 29 March 2017 |
| High jump | 2.09 m | Austin, Texas | 29 March 2017 |
| 400 m | 48.05 s | Budapest, Hungary | 25 August 2023 |
| 110 m hurdles | 14.45 s (wind: +1.8 m/s) | Columbia, South Carolina | 12 May 2017 |
| Discus throw | 55.87 m | Azusa, California | 18 April 2019 |
| Pole vault | 4.92 m NR | Chula Vista, California | 25 April 2021 |
| Javelin throw | 71.56 m | Tokyo, Japan | 5 August 2021 |
| 1500 m | 4:39.67 min | Budapest, Hungary | 26 August 2023 |
| Decathlon | 8756 pts NR | Budapest, Hungary | 26 August 2023 |
| Indoor ||||
| 60 m | 6.94 s | Nashville, TN | 24 February 2017 |
| Long jump | 7.38 m | College Station, TX | 17 February 2018 |
| Shot put | 16.55 m | College Station, TX | 10 March 2017 |
| High jump | 2.07 m | College Station, TX | 10 March 2017 |
| 60 m hurdles | 8.24 s | Fayetteville, AR | 26 February 2016 |
| Pole vault | 4.76 m | College Station, TX | 11 March 2017 |
| 1000 m | 2:51.14 min | College Station, TX | 11 March 2017 |
| Heptathlon | 5976 pts | College Station, TX | 11 March 2017 |

## Competition record

| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
| Representing Grenada ||||||
| 2009 | CARIFTA Games | Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia | 3rd | Shot put | 13.90 m |
| 2009 | CARIFTA Games | Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia | 2nd | Discus throw | 45.27 m |
| 2010 | CARIFTA Games | George Town, Cayman Islands | 3rd | Heptathlon | 4234 pts |
| 2010 | Summer Youth Olympics | Singapore | 13th | Javelin throw | 51.61 m |
| 2011 | CARIFTA Games | Montego Bay, Jamaica | 3rd | Heptathlon | 4544 pts |
| 2012 | CARIFTA Games | Hamilton, Bermuda | 1st | Heptathlon | 4572 pts |
| 2014 | NACAC Under-23 Championships | British Columbia, Canada | 6th | Javelin throw | 65.28 m |
| 2015 | Pan American Games | Toronto, Canada | 7th | Decathlon | 7453 pts |
| 2016 | OECS Track & Field Championships | Tortola, British Virgin Islands | 10th | Long jump | 6.51 m |
| 2016 | OECS Track & Field Championships | Tortola, British Virgin Islands | 3rd | Shot put | 14.73 m |
| 2016 | OECS Track & Field Championships | Tortola, British Virgin Islands | 2nd | Discus throw | 48.50 m |
| 2016 | Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 16th | Decathlon | 7998 pts pts |
| 2017 | World Championships | London, United Kingdom | – | Decathlon | DNF |
| 2018 | World Indoor Championships | Birmingham, United Kingdom | DNF | Heptathlon | DNF |
| 2018 | Commonwealth Games | Gold Coast, Australia | 1st | Decathlon | 8303 pts |
| 2019 | Pan American Games | Lima, Peru | 2nd | Decathlon | 8240 pts |
| 2019 | World Championships | Doha, Qatar | – | Decathlon | DNF |
| 2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 7th | Decathlon | 8414 pts |
| 2022 | World Indoor Championships | Belgrade, Serbia | – | Heptathlon | DNF |
| 2022 | World Championships | Eugene, United States | 5th | Decathlon | 8474 pts |
| 2022 | Commonwealth Games | Birmingham, England | 1st | Decathlon | 8233 pts |
| 2023 | World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 3rd | Decathlon | 8756 pts |
| 2024 | Olympic Games | Paris, France | 3rd | Decathlon | 8711 pts |