At the end of the athletics World Cup in Tokyo, there are nine medal decisions-including in the decathlon, where Leo Neugebauer and Niklas Kaul have Podest chances. The relay finals also promise excitement. The highlights on the ninth and last competition day at an overview.
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Men (from 2.05 a.m.)
Does Leo Neugebauer get the next medal on the world stage after Olympic silver? In a decathlon with many failures, the German record holder is in fourth place at half -time and thus in a strong position in front of the last five disciplines. Niklas Kaul can also flirt with a medal. The world champion of Doha 2019, after Saturday eighth, has a traditionally very strong second day.
High jump women – final (from 12.05 p.m.)
A World Cup medal is the declared goal of Christina Honsel – the last German high jumper Ariane Friedrich won the bronze in Berlin 16 years ago. For the Wattenscheider woman, however, a lot has to go. Favored in Tokyo world record and defending champion Jaroslawa Mahutschich (Ukraine) as well as the world champion of 2022, Eleanor Patterson (Australia) and her compatriot Nicola Olyslagers, the world champion in the hall. In Imke Onnen, the second German also made the leap into the final.
800 meters of women – final (12.35 p.m.)
The British Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson, second two years ago in Budapest, wants to win Mary Moraa DESTRONE and GOLD. The Kenyan will have something against it. The only 21-year-old Swiss Audrey Werro is also to be expected.
5000 meters of men – final (12.47 p.m.)
The German record holder Mohamed Abdilaahi missed the World Cup final, unlike Norway’s miracle runner Jakob Ingigtsen, who is far from his top shape. Can the Olympic champion still win his third World Cup title in a row over 5000 meters? It doesn’t look like it …
Discus throwing men – final (1.10 p.m.)
Henrik Janssen and Mika Sosna stand in the final from a German trio. Does World Recordler Mykolas Alekna (Lithuania) grab his first big title 20 years after his father Virgilijus Alekna’s last World Cup gold? The competition for defending champion Daniel Stahl (Sweden) is strong.
4×400 meter relay – final men (1:20 p.m.) and women (1:35 p.m.)
Are the USA in the men’s final? A excretion race at 3:40 a.m. between the Americans and Kenya, both of which had been disabled in the lead of Sambia, previously decides on a ninth final place. The US women are safe in their final and want to get gold.
4×100 meter relay – final women (2:06 p.m.) and men (2.20 p.m.)
The German sprinters really wanted more in the preliminaries. The DLV women around Gina Lückenkemper presented themselves in a medal form in 41.86 seconds. The United States was 26 hundredth faster, Jamaica only six hundredths.
Also convinced the men. The German quartet qualified for the final as a preliminary dragon behind Canada and the USA. Gold favorite Jamaica lost the baton and resigned sensationally.
At 3:33 a.m. there is a repetition race in which South Africa can still qualify for the final. If the quartet, which had come into the enclosure with Italy in advance, runs 38.34 seconds or better, it will run as a ninth team in the final on lane 1.