At the start of the 38th DTB Cup in Stuttgart, the German gymnasts clearly missed out on a podium place in the men’s team challenge.
When the team from the USA won with 258.80 points ahead of Japan (253.95) and Turkey (247.35), Team Germany II with Carlo Hörr (Schmiden), Leonard Prügel, Tom Schultze (both Cottbus) and Milan Hosseini landed (Böckingen) and Alexander Kunz (Pfuhl) with 239.25 points in tenth place.
Team Germany I with the former European Championship runner-up Andreas Toba, Glenn Trebing (both Hanover), Lucas Kochan (Cottbus), Dario Sissakis (Berlin) and Pascal Brendel (Wetzlar) finished twelfth in the field with 231.55 points of the 14 teams.
DTB team: Mistakes prevent better placements
Just under a month before the European Championships from April 12th to 16th in Antalya, Turkey, numerous mistakes and falls prevented better placements in both teams. For the apparatus finals on Saturday (6:30 p.m.), only Dario Sissakis from the ranks of the German Gymnastics Federation (DTB) was able to qualify, who finished sixth in the ranking list adjusted for nations with an average of 14.10 points from both rounds.
In front of 800 spectators, the hosts were not at their best. The Olympic silver medalist on parallel bars, Unterhachinger Lukas Dauser, had to cancel his start due to a shoulder injury that had not yet healed. His training colleague Nils Dunkel was rested a week ago after his appearance in the Baku World Cup.