Leon Schäfer won silver in the long jump at the World Championship of Para Silight Athletes in New Delhi and thus ensured the first German medal.
The defending champion on Monday in India with a 7.45 m is 20 centimeters. The Paralympics winner of Paris and World Recordler Joel de Jong from the Netherlands secured gold with 7.57 m.
“I would have liked to have won, I can’t deny that. I can’t get here to be in the second,” said Schäfer: “But I put a horny series, I jumped twice personal best, so everything has been okay. Satisfaction gives me the best performance and the fact that I jumped without a board. So I know that there is still a lot of room for improvement.”
On Sunday, the one-sided thigh-amputated start as a defending champion over the 100 m last year. Schäfer had occupied the ungrateful fourth place in both disciplines at the Paralympics in Paris.
At the moment, the long jump in Schäfer’s start class in the Los Angeles 2028 program was missing. “It came as a surprise for everyone. We were faced with completed facts, there was no explanation or justification,” the 28-year-old said in the run-up to the World Cup to the SID: “I know that it is official at first. But I am so sure that this decision will not stay that way.”