Vaterstetten (dpa) - After a false start, the title hopes of decathlon favorite Mathias Brugger at the German all-around championships in Vaterstetten / Bavaria were dashed.
The 28-year-old from Ulm caused the second false start in the second 100-meter run, he was disqualified and thus remained without points in the opening competition.
A protest by the third of the 2016 Indoor World Championships was later rejected. After the third discipline, the shot put, Brugger gave up. After five disciplines, Nico Beckers from Aachen is in the lead with 4060 points ahead of his club colleague Jannis Wolff (3953).
In the women's heptathlon, the big favorite Carolin Schäfer leads after four disciplines: The 28-year-old World Cup runner-up from 2017 from Frankfurt / Main collected 3756 points on the first day and is ahead of Vanessa Grimm from Königsteiner LV (3676). Schäfer, who trains with the parents of decathlon world champion Niklas Kaul (Mainz), is aiming for her second national championship title since 2013.
Kaul had to forego the championships due to an elbow operation in a year without the Olympics and European Athletics Championships (both postponed to 2021). The man from Mainz was there on Saturday as a co-commentator of the live stream and on Sunday as a guest on the ZDF live broadcast.
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Preliminary report on Leichtathletik.de
ZDF live stream and results Saturday / Sunday
Brief portrait of Mathias Brugger
