Interesting facts from the world of athletics
Jan-Henner Reitze
Rebekka Haase confirms her shape
On Wednesday evening, Rebekka Haase (Sprint Team Wetzlar) put two strong races over 100 meters on the track at the Gohliser Laufzig in Leipzig. In good and regular conditions, the 32-year-old sprinted 11.19 seconds in the preliminary (+ 1.8 m/sec) and 11.18 seconds in the finals (+0.3 m/sec). So only three hundredths of the season’s best (11.15 sec) from Regensburg were missing. Corinna Schwab (LAC Erdgas Chemnitz) covered the 400 meters in 53.56 seconds, and around an hour and a half earlier she had already run 23.45 seconds in her first 200-meter race of the summer.
Tobias Potye wins in Aschheim and jumps warm for sense
With a height of 2.16 meters, Tobias Potye (Cologne Athletics) won the high jump meeting with music in Aschheim on Thursday evening. After the Vice European Champion of Munich had mastered this height in the second attempt, he tried again in vain at 2.22 meters and ended the competition. The 30-year-old wanted to save strength for the meeting, where he meets the 2018 Mateusz Przybylko (TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen) tomorrow (June 21). “The competition in Aschheim was intended as a start. We had set a fixed number of jumps that I wanted to do,” said Tobias Potye.
Emil Agyekum focuses on training again
In Oslo (Norway) and Stockholm (Sweden), Emil Aggyekum (SCC Berlin) most recently completed two Diamond League meetings one after the other. In Stockholm, the 400-meter hurdle runner as fourth (48.37 sec) remained only one hundredth of his season from Dresden from the beginning of June (48.36 sec). Actually, the 26-year-old also had a starting place at the Diamond Legaue Meeting this Friday in Paris (France), but his name has now disappeared from the start list. “We decided to concentrate on training for the second half of the season again,” said the German champion. “My next races will then be the ISTAF and the DM in Dresden.” At the World Cup in Tokyo (Japan; 13th to September 21st), the final is the goal.
Hessenschau visits Aileen Kuhn
With her ascent to the current DLV tip in the hammer throw, Aileen Kuhn (Eintracht Frankfurt) also drawn the Hessischer Rundfunk aware of. The Hessenschau was visiting training. In the Video reveals coach Kathrin Klaas that her new protégé characterizes the speed and what reward waves when the promoted team one day breaks the best performance (76.05 m) of her trainer.
Wilfried Happio closed for 18 months
Because he did not specify his place of residence as required, the French 400-meter hurdle specialist Wilfried Happio was blocked for 18 months. The 26-year-old has a best time of 47.41 seconds and won 2022 EM silver. EME/AJ
HLV offers positions in competition organization and PR & marketing
The Hessian Athletics Association (HLV) is looking for personnel reinforcements. Once it is about a parental leave representative in the competition organization. In addition, a part -time position in the area of PR & marketing is advertised. There is more about the job advertisements here…
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