The world games are a top event for non-Olympic disciplines. Deklerck easily qualified for the final. In the series for the gold he ran out against the Brit who set the pressure high with a score of 25,900, a feasible bar for Deklerck.
The young Belgian, the youngest participant in this discipline, made it with a score of 26,800.
For example, he is the first Belgian ever to take a medal on this discipline.