Leverkusen (dpa) - The new German sprint opening Deniz Almas is running ahead. The 23-year-old from VfL Wolfsburg also won the 100 meters at the athletics meeting in Leverkusen - but with 10.23 seconds he was well behind his season's best time.
The air was a bit out in difficult conditions for Johannes Vetter: The 2017 world champion won the javelin throwing in front of empty ranks with 84.30 meters.
The German pole vaulter left the facility very satisfied: The German champion and World Cup fourth Bo Kanda Lita Baehre from Leverkusen set a personal best with 5.81 meters and only had to admit defeat to world champion Sam Kendricks (USA) who had fewer failed attempts . Former world champion Raphael Holzdeppe from Zweibrücken jumped 5.76 meters as high as the whole season.
After exciting days, Almas left the German record holder Julian Reus (Erfurt) and Cologne's Joshua Hartmann (both 10.27) behind, just like at the German championships a week ago in Braunschweig. Favorite Chijindu Ujah from Great Britain had to retire after 60 meters injured. In the title fights Almas ran 10.09 seconds, before he had shone in Weinheim with 10.08. On Friday, the native of the Black Forest ran the personal best of 20.64 seconds in his first major international appearance in the Diamond League in Monaco over 200 meters.
Vetter probably also lacked competition in Leverkusen. The last ailing Vice European Champion Andreas Hofmann from Mannheim had canceled. In addition, the German record holder and champion struggled with the conditions. "The surface was catastrophic, much too soft. You slide your stem three to five meters further," he says. "My goal is to constantly throw around or over 90 meters. The form is there."
For long jump world champion Malaika Mihambo from LG Kurpfalz, the trip to the 100 meter distance ended rather disappointingly. She missed the final with 11.48 seconds. There, the British Imani Lansiquaot won in 11.16 seconds ahead of the German runner-up Rebekka Haase from Wetzlar in 11.30.
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