The German Paralympics star Markus Rehm won his eighth World Cup title in series at the World Cup championships. The 37-year-old prevailed in the long-jumped long jump competition with the championship record of 8.43 meters and remained unbeaten in the 15th year of his career in the T64 career.
The world recordler was 22 centimeters of Loccident from the USA in New Delhi – and thus exceeded the targeted expanse of Mattia Furlani. The Italian had won the Olympic athletes in Tokyo World Cup with 8.39 meters two weeks ago.
Overall, it was the tenth triumph at Para World Championships for Rehm, in 2015 and 2017 he still won with the German sprint relay. In the previous year, the Leverkusener in Paris had secured his fifth Paralympics victory, and his long jump competition was then the first para event of the ARD’s prime time. Rehm also won eight EM titles.
For another German World Cup triumph on Friday – the fourth for the German Disabled Sports Association (DBS) in India – Max Marzillier made over 400 meters (T13) in 49.00 seconds. The visually impaired Marcel Böttger and Guide Alexander Kosenkow were fourth over 100 meters in the T11 class.
In Neu-Delhi, prosthesis jumper Rehm was not the house-high favorite for the first time in his career, his season best of 8.29 meters to date was only seven centimeters above that of Loccident. But he wanted to give his trainer Steffi Nerius a crowning goodbye after 16 years together. “A friendship has also arisen. It can be emotional,” said the world recordler of the sports show in advance. After the World Cup, we go to a training group in Amsterdam.
But before that he had his best in India 8.72 meters. “There were many indications that something was still going on,” said Rehm despite then, despite the growing season with a view to his training performance: “I have made the best out of short attempts. If you could transfer it to a full start, it could be exciting.”