Niklas Kaul is world champion in the decathlon and has to qualify for the Olympics.
Does he succeed?
The Canadian Damian Warner surpasses everyone.
Tokyo - The Olympic Games * will start in Tokyo, Japan at the end of July 2021.
Decathlon world champion Niklas Kaul, who wants to create the norm in Götzis, Austria, would also like to be there.
On the second day of the decathlon qualification, Kaul showed restrained performances, while the Canadian Damian Warner showed a fabulous performance.
Will the German Olympic hope make the ticket to Japan?
The 23-year-old Mainz ran the 110 meter hurdles on Sunday in 14.84 seconds and initially slipped two positions to 13th place with 5023 points.
After five disciplines he was eleventh with 4126 points.
This was 38 points less than when they won the World Cup in Doha / Qatar in October 2019.
Since Kaul's strong disciplines like the javelin throw are yet to come, he should surpass the norm of 8350 points and get the Tokyo ticket.
So good prospects, but Kaul has to deliver.
Olympia 2021 in Tokyo: Damian Warner now favorite with historic performance
The Canadian Damian Warner shows a phenomenal performance as the fourth decathlete in history to overcome the 9000 point barrier.
After six disciplines, the World Cup third with the fastest time ever run in an all-around event over 110 meter hurdles in 13.36 seconds has already collected 5802 points.
Nobody had already achieved the 4743 points after the first half of the competition.
Only Roman Sebrle (Czech Republic / 9026), Ashton Eaton (USA / 9045) and the current world record holder Kevin Mayer (France / 9126) managed to outbid more than 9000 points.
Olympia 2021 in Tokyo: Kazmirek in seventh place
The Olympic fourth Kai Kazmirek from LG Rhein-Wied defended his seventh place with 14.56 seconds in the hurdles sprint at the start of the second day. With a time of 14.26 seconds and 5030 points, Mathias Brugger from Ulm was able to climb three places to twelfth place. Dennis Hutterer from Darmstadt is in 19th place after 14.86 seconds over the hurdles with 4790 points. The Frankfurt Andreas Bechmann had to give up because of foot problems before the hurdle sprint. It was ninth after the first day.
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