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"Giant, phenomenal": Bayersoier pentathlon great success after Corona break - more spectators than ever

2022-08-03T10:24:13.649Z


There was a great atmosphere and top performance at the 29th Bayersoier team pentathlon. Although fewer teams took part, they were never cheered on by so many spectators.


There was a great atmosphere and top performance at the 29th Bayersoier team pentathlon.

Although fewer teams took part, they were never cheered on by so many spectators.

Bad Bayersoien – they wanted normality, the Bad Bayersoier.

She should return with the pentathlon, without which something is missing that belongs to a normal year in Bad Bayersoien.

But it got better than normal.

So far there have always been a lot of spectators, the atmosphere has always been good – but this year.

.

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"It was gigantic.

Great.

Extreme.

Phenomenal.” The fact that Rupert Haseidl is so enthusiastic as ESV chairman and thus chief organizer of the team competition may also be due to his position.

But everyone on site, participants or spectators, foreigners or locals, would sign his balance sheet.

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The children don't miss a start in the pentathlon either - and of course they are loudly cheered on.

© Fabian Zwerger

No one counted the visitors, but it must have been 500 or 600 on Saturday, who drove the athletes to the top with cow bells, shouts of "hop" and "bravo" at the final cult marathon race on the Aubichl.

Nothing stopped the spectators.

Neither the rain towards the end - soaked they just kept cheering - nor the steep climbs on the track.

On the Simelerberg, for example, an extra discipline could have been introduced: the pram push-on competition.

There would definitely have been enough participants.

Bayersoier Pentathlon: Unique in terms of the disciplines and the field of participants

Whether it's for children or adults, whether it's stick target shooting, bench press, racing bike time trials or mountain bike races: on both days you could feel the Bayersoi pentathlon spirit, which also filled the beer tent in the evening.

"We certainly haven't forgotten how to celebrate," says moderator Xaver Jais and laughs.

And of course not her anthem either, which had been silent for two years and was sung until the morning hours: "There is only one Soier pentathlon." And how that was missing in the Corona years.

It feels like all the teams, says Jais, who is responsible for sport on the organizational team, are just happy that the competition is finally back.

Jais describes it as unique – in two ways.

On the one hand because of the disciplines.

On the other hand because of the starting field.

Bringing top athletes together with ambitious athletes and those who just join in for the fun: "This mix is ​​extremely important to us." And he has been doing it for years, now at an exceptional level in every discipline.

Regina Haas, for example, is a multiple German champion in the bench press, now she's competing at the European Championships - in Bad Bayersoien she was only enough for second place (all results and more pictures are available from ESV Bad Bayersoien).

"That's crazy for a village competition like this." Jais is enthusiastic, as are the participants.

The presenter talked to a racing cyclist.

How great it was, he said, that he can compete with a Lukas Krämer.

Who drove a fabulous time: The triathlete from Peißenberg missed the course record by just ten seconds.

who just join in for the fun: "This mix is ​​extremely important to us." And it has been successful for years, now at an exceptional level in every discipline.

Regina Haas, for example, is a multiple German champion in the bench press, now she's competing at the European Championships - in Bad Bayersoien she was only enough for second place (all results and more pictures are available from ESV Bad Bayersoien).

"That's crazy for a village competition like this." Jais is enthusiastic, as are the participants.

The presenter talked to a racing cyclist.

How great it was, he said, that he can compete with a Lukas Krämer.

Who drove a fabulous time: The triathlete from Peißenberg missed the course record by just ten seconds.

who just join in for the fun: "This mix is ​​extremely important to us." And it has been successful for years, now at an exceptional level in every discipline.

Regina Haas, for example, is a multiple German champion in the bench press, now she's competing at the European Championships - in Bad Bayersoien she was only enough for second place (all results and more pictures are available from ESV Bad Bayersoien).

"That's crazy for a village competition like this." Jais is enthusiastic, as are the participants.

The presenter talked to a racing cyclist.

How great it was, he said, that he can compete with a Lukas Krämer.

Who drove a fabulous time: The triathlete from Peißenberg missed the course record by just ten seconds.

extraordinary meanwhile the level in every discipline.

Regina Haas, for example, is a multiple German champion in the bench press, now she's competing at the European Championships - in Bad Bayersoien she was only enough for second place (all results and more pictures are available from ESV Bad Bayersoien).

"That's crazy for a village competition like this." Jais is enthusiastic, as are the participants.

The presenter talked to a racing cyclist.

How great it was, he said, that he can compete with a Lukas Krämer.

Who drove a fabulous time: The triathlete from Peißenberg missed the course record by just ten seconds.

extraordinary meanwhile the level in every discipline.

Regina Haas, for example, is a multiple German champion in the bench press, now she's competing at the European Championships - in Bad Bayersoien she was only enough for second place (all results and more pictures are available from ESV Bad Bayersoien).

"That's crazy for a village competition like this." Jais is enthusiastic, as are the participants.

The presenter talked to a racing cyclist.

How great it was, he said, that he can compete with a Lukas Krämer.

Who drove a fabulous time: The triathlete from Peißenberg missed the course record by just ten seconds.

Now she's competing at the European Championships - in Bad Bayersoien she only managed second place (all results and more pictures are available from ESV Bad Bayersoien).

"That's crazy for a village competition like this." Jais is enthusiastic, as are the participants.

The presenter talked to a racing cyclist.

How great it was, he said, that he can compete with a Lukas Krämer.

Who drove a fabulous time: The triathlete from Peißenberg missed the course record by just ten seconds.

Now she's competing at the European Championships - in Bad Bayersoien she only managed second place (all results and more pictures are available from ESV Bad Bayersoien).

"That's crazy for a village competition like this." Jais is enthusiastic, as are the participants.

The presenter talked to a racing cyclist.

How great it was, he said, that he can compete with a Lukas Krämer.

Who drove a fabulous time: The triathlete from Peißenberg missed the course record by just ten seconds.

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Everyone gives their all in their discipline - including this starter with the bench press.

© Fabian Zwerger

Kramer put together a strong team (Schlosserei Schichl) to beat the long-term winners.

It didn't work.

As has been the case since 2015, the men from Veloass Hohenfurch lifted the Bernd Utzschneider memorial cup.

A well-known friend also won the mountain bike race: Martin Hollerbach – for the 16th time.

"Even really fit youngsters can't get past that," says Jais about the 53-year-old Schongauer, who has been competing for the ESV home team, the Soier Lions, for years.

She ended up in a very good fourth place overall – Jais had predicted the top five.

The big goal: crack the magic 100

In terms of sport, there were few surprises, organizationally a few.

The rain on Friday threw the team "a little off course", admits Haseidl.

But thanks to the music band, pavilions were quickly erected and the organizers were able to pull through at least part of the curling.

In situations like these, you realize that after a two-year break, not everything is running 100 percent smoothly, says Haseidl.

"But the team in the background is so strong that we were able to absorb it." He experienced the best surprise personally.

He did not expect such a great response and this "huge joy" with which the spectators, athletes and helpers were there.

At least he didn't dare to hope so.

Even if 77 teams started a little less than in 2019, when over 90 were registered.

But the two days were the best advertisement for the 30th pentathlon in the coming year.

Then the magic number of 100 starter teams should finally fall.

"That would be a dream."

Source: merkur

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