Manuel Eitel

Manuel Eitel (born 28 January 1997) is a German decathlete.

Career
From Baltmannsweiler, he is a member of SSV Ulm 1846. He was a 2016 World Athletics U20 Championships bronze medalist in the 4x100m relay in 2016 in Bydgoszcz.

He was a European Athletics U23 Championships bronze medallist in the decathlon in 2019. He had surgery on his ankle in 2020, and split his training time between Ulm and Leverkusen during 2020.

He won the German Athletics Championships in the decathlon in August 2022, and set a new personal best for the decathlon in Bernhausen. The following month improved it by four points to 8,193 points in Talence.

He finished fourth in the pentathlon at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul in March 2023. He placed eleventh in the decathlon at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest.

He was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024. Competing in the decathlon he finished in seventh place overall with a tally of 8212 points.