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Bo Kanda Lita Baehre
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Bo Kanda Lita Baehre won silver in the pole vault at the next gold show hosted by superstar Armand Duplantis.
The World Championship seventh jumped 5.85 m in the Munich Olympic Stadium and only had to admit defeat to the defending champion, Olympic champion, world champion and world record holder from Sweden, who surpassed his own European Championship record with 6.06 m.
Pal Haugen Lillefosse (5.75/Norway) secured bronze.
Torben Blech and Oleg Zernikel, fifth in the World Championships, only managed their initial height of 5.50 m and finished eighth and ninth.
Christina Hering delivered a courageous performance over
800 meters
at the European Athletics Championships in Munich .
Cheered on by the audience in the Olympic Stadium, the Munich native, who surprisingly made it into her first international final, ran in the lead up to the 600m mark, after 2:00.82 minutes she finished seventh.
Olympic silver medalist, vice world champion and top favorite Keely Hodgkinson (Great Britain) secured the European title in 1:59.04 minutes.
Renelle Lamote (1:59.49/France) won silver, Poland's Anna Wielgosz (1:59.87) took bronze.
Elina Tzengko has replaced Christin Hussong as European
Javelin
Champion.
In the absence of the German defending champion, the Greek won with 65.81 m ahead of Serbian Adriana Vilagos (62.01) and world record holder Barbora Spotakova (60.68) from the Czech Republic.
The German Annika Marie Fuchs missed the final fight by about three meters with 54.52 m and was eleventh.
The two-time Olympic champion Spotakova won the fourth European Championship medal of her career thanks to her best throw in the last round.
The 41-year-old was already at the start 20 years ago when the European Championships were also held in Munich's Olympic Stadium, but was eliminated in the qualification at the time.
The German women's
4x400 meter relay
took fifth place in the final of the European Athletics Championships in Munich.
Luna Thiel, Mona Mayer, Alica Schmidt and Carolina Krafzik finished on Saturday in 3:26.09 minutes.
Femke Bol, anchor runner, led the Dutch team to victory in 3:20.87 minutes.
For Bol it is the third EM gold after the two over 400 meters and 400 meters hurdles.
The German men's relay over 4x400 meters with Marvin Schlegel, Patrick Schneider, Marc Koch and Manuel Sanders finished seventh in 3:02.51 minutes.
Great Britain secured European Championship gold in 2:59.35 minutes ahead of defending champions Belgium (2:59.49) and France (2:59.64).
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