TSV Dorfen: Southern Bavaria title for students, Hintz and Schütte

Created: 01/27/2022, 13:00

They strive for the top: Jana Schüler, Svea Schütte, Emilia Kurz, Niklas Hintz and Vincent Bachmayr (from left) returned from the indoor competitions in Munich with three South Bavarian championship titles and a silver medal.

© Beate Spindler

The track and field athletes of TSV Dorfen started the year 2022 with excellent performances at the southern Bavarian indoor championships.

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- High jumper Jana Schüler, hurdle sprinter Niklas Hintz and relay runner Svea Schütte each won the title fights.

Emilia Kurz returned from Munich as runner-up.

And Vincent Bachmayr made it to third place after a mistake by his club colleague Jannik Straub.

For students it was their second victory at the southern Bavarian indoor championships.

Already in 2018 she finished the title fights in the Werner-von-Linde-Halle, in which the best young athletes from Upper Bavaria, Lower Bavaria and Swabia take part, as the most successful high jumper.

At that time with a height of 1.57 meters in the age group W 14. Only a few centimeters below - at 1.53 meters - students entered the competition on Sunday.

Just two other athletes were still standing at the high jump facility, all the others had already been eliminated.

And the field of participants thinned out faster than expected: Linda Sickinger (LG Stadtwerke München) already failed at 1.56 m, Carolina Divertito (LG 90 Ebersberg-Grafing) broke the bar at 1.62 meters.

"I think it's a shame that the top performers, who were always there, are currently injured or are starting in lower age groups - it's more fun and of course motivating to jump against others in a direct comparison," said Schüler after the championship .

But although the Dorfener had the title in her pocket after four flawless jumps, she continued to raise the bar.

She easily crossed the 1.66 meters and finally made it over 1.70 meters in the third attempt.

At the next height it was over for her after three failed attempts.

"I think the 1.74 could have been in there.

It was purely a matter of my head that I no longer skipped it.

The higher it goes, the more I think about the altitude and then tense up.”

Jana Schüler, who started in the U20s at the age of 17, was still satisfied with her performance: "I won by eleven centimeters, that's quite a lot.

My height was also a good start to the season – the 1.70 is a new indoor record for me.”

Her club colleague Niklas Hintz, who has already reached for the title several times over 60 meters hurdles, also won with a personal best time, but just missed it in 2017 (2nd place) and 2018 (3rd place).

This time he won and qualified for the Bavarian Championships with a time of 9.01 seconds.

Svea Schütte was also in top form with the relay team of the LAG Mittlere Isar.

Although the team had to start in a new formation for the 4 x 200 meter run in the U18s, the handover of the baton went smoothly and the quartet stormed towards the title in just 1:49.40 minutes and a good four seconds ahead.

Team athlete Jannik Straub also stormed into his run over 60 meters hurdles, which he contested in the U18 age group together with training partner Vincent Bachmayr. Up to the last obstacle, he was level with Maximilian Schreiber (LG Sempt) at the top, but then he got stuck at the hurdle with his trailing leg, stumbled and only stumbled to the finish line in fifth place after 9.22 seconds. An annoying mistake for Straub, but thanks to which Vincent Bachmayr ended up in third place (8.86 sec).

Emilia Kurz made it particularly exciting at her premiere. The 13-year-old was very nervous as she waited in the starting block for the shot from the pistol. But then the shock was also great when the bang heralded the race and left Kurz well behind everyone else. But the girl from Dorfen fought, got over the hurdles well on the 60-meter-long course and, only 9 hundredths of a second behind, achieved the second-best time (9.59 seconds) of the 21 participants in the age group W 14. She also got permission to start for the Bavarian indoor championships next weekend. In the one-year-older hurdle sprinters in the W 15, Kurz starts the race on Saturday with the fourth-best entry time. In addition to her and Hintz, studentsSchütte, Bachmayr and Jannik Straub took part in the Bavarian Indoor Championships in Munich.

By Beate Spindler