Tilga

Karel Tilga (born in 1998) is an Estonian athlete who competes in the decathlon. In 2021 he won for Georgia Bulldogs (men) their fifth ever NCAA individual title (second in the heptathlon) by scoring a school record 6,264 to win the heptathlon at the NCAA Championships with the No. 2 all-time collegiate performance. He scored a near 400 point-improvement on his decathlon lifetime best at the Specs Town Invitational in Athens, Georgia in April 2021 besting Garrett Scantling by just 8 points. Tilga's score reached the Olympic qualifying standard of 8350 points for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics. At the Olympics he received 0 in pole vault and eventually finished 20th. He did not finish the 2022 European Championships after also receiving 0 in pole vault. He is the 2021 NCAA champion in decathlon. Tilga finished 9th at the 2022 World Indoor Championships and in 2023 he competed at the World Championships in Budapest.