Germany’s best decathlete shows a strong performance in his adopted homeland. He wins by a clear margin.
Decathlete Leo Neugebauer presented himself in dazzling form a good four months before the Olympic Games in Paris. The 23-year-old won the “Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays” in his adopted hometown of Austin with a clear lead and 8,708 points.
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He clearly won ahead of Lee Walburn with 7,694 points, but missed out on improving the German record. Despite a personal best in the javelin throw (58.99 m), Neugebauer fell behind his top performances from 2023. At the start on Wednesday, Neugebauer had already set a personal best with the ball (17.26 m). At the World Championships in Budapest last year, Neugebauer finished fifth as the half-time leader. This did not happen to him during the competition on the German night of Good Friday.
Neugebauer as a medal hope at the Olympics in Paris
Neugebauer has learned from the World Cup appearance and is one of the biggest German athletics hopes in the decathlon at the Olympic Games in Paris this summer. He will not start at the European Championships in Rome at the beginning of June.
The athlete, who competes for VfB Stuttgart, recently made people sit up and take notice with an indoor record in the heptathlon. At the college championships in Boston, he improved Frank Busemann’s national indoor record, which was more than two decades old, by 56 points to 6,347 points.
Broadcast on Thursday, March 28, 2024, 2:00 p.m., SWR Aktuell Long-distance, SWR Aktuell