Dorfen / Erding
- The sprinters of TSV Dorfen experienced the Bavarian U 16 and U 23 athletics championships in the Altenerdinger Sepp-Brenninger Stadium as an emotional rollercoaster ride (we reported).
Vincent Bachmayr, who started as a medal candidate on the 80-meter hurdles course, already botched the preliminary run.
Svea Schütte missed the podium by the blink of an eye with the 4 x 100 meter relay of the LAG Mittlere Isar.
But then Niklas Hintz of all people caused the surprise of the competition and won bronze over 110 meter hurdles in the U23 - without any pressure of expectation (we reported).
The joy about the unexpected third place is still great three days after the championships.
While Hintz wins the laurels for his success, Bachmayr can repeatedly listen to comments about his race last Saturday during training on the school sports grounds in Dorfen: a run over seven hurdles, for which the 15-year-old needed 12.02 seconds himself referred to as "just bad".
"I was slow, took far too long strides and put my foot down too late after the hurdle," he says self-critically.
Particularly annoying for him: "I ran far below my best time."
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A blink of an eye too slow: Svea Schütte was the starting runner of the LAG Mittlere Isar in the 4 x 100 meter relay, missing a hundredth from the medal.
© Christian Riedel
In fact, Bachmayr had a good start into the competition season after the forced Corona break and increased from time to time to a good 11.86 seconds on his parade route.
A time that could have brought him to a better place than 12th in the Bavarian championships.
Then why did the hurdler fail at the peak of the season?
Was it the competition - 16 participants took to the 80 meter hurdles in the M 15 age group - or was the excitement just too great?
Neither, he says.
“I was on vacation before, I just didn't train enough during that time,” admits Bachmayr.
Excuses are not his kind. Neither are he angry about the past.
Bachmayr comments on the jokes of his TSV club colleagues about his failure with humor.
For him the run is ticked off.
“The Upper Bavarian championship will take place in Ingolstadt at the weekend,” says the man from Dorfen.
"The important thing is that I do better there."
Svea Schütte also wants to do better.
The 14-year-old had qualified for the first time to take part in the Bavarian championships and after a good run over 80 meter hurdles got the right to start for the final.
“Getting to the finals was my goal for this competition.
Of course, I was very pleased that I managed a new personal record time of 13.01 seconds, although I didn't get off the starting block so well, ”said Schütte, who finished eighth in the W 14 and want to run a 12-time in Ingolstadt.
With the relay of the LAG Mittlere Isar, Schütte will even enter the race as a favorite.
She has already proven in the Sepp-Brenninger Stadium that the village woman harmonizes well with Johanna Billmeir, Lana Pavic and Lina Bachmann from LC Freising.
There the runners were the youngest among the nine registered teams of the U 16s and showed that they were well coordinated despite the lack of team training.
After a smooth handover, they reached the finish line in 51.10 seconds - only a hundredth of a second later than the third-placed finishers.
"Of course, this tight decision was annoying," says Schütte.
But she knows that her team ran a good race over 4 x 100 meters and has the chance of a medal in Ingolstadt.
In addition to Schütte and Bachmayr, Jana Schüler (high jump, 100-meter hurdles), Jannick Straub (80-meter hurdles) and Niklas Hintz (110-meter hurdles, 100-meter sprint) will start next Saturday at the Upper Bavarian Championships from TSV Dorfen.
BY BEATE SPINDLER