2023-05-26 14:56:41
9000-point decathletes Damian Warner and Anouk Vetter are the favorites at the traditional all-around meeting this weekend in Vorarlberg.
Götzis has experienced many great moments in athletics. If there is another one this weekend, it is most likely due to Damian Warner or Anouk Vetter. Last year’s two winners are the top favorites at the 48th edition of the traditional all-around meeting.
The seven-time Götzis winner Warner has a certain point goal in mind, but was covered at the press conference on Friday: “We answer vaguely like politicians,” joked the 33-year-old Canadian. Last year at the Olympics in Tokyo, he became the fourth athlete in history to break the magical 9,000 mark. The first was Czech Roman Šebrle in 2001. He broke the historic sound barrier back then in Götzis. 9026 points was a world record for eleven years followingwards. The Brit Daley Thompson had previously set two world records (1980, 1982) in the Mösle Stadium.
For both Warner and Vetter, this year’s World Championships in Budapest are the focus. Also a number of other a total of 56 athletes want to surpass the high limits set for this (8460 or 6480 points) early on. The Swiss Simon Ehammer is one of Warner’s strongest competitors. The Vice European Champion from Munich 2022 had his own moment of glory last year in Götzis: with 8.45 meters he achieved the world best performance for a long jump within a decathlon.
The Dutch Vetter should make life difficult for the European Championship runner-up Adrianna Sułek (POL), the strong Americans Anna Hall and Annie Kunz and former world champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson. Austria’s hopes are World Cup candidate Sarah Lagger, Chiara-Belinda Schuler and Isabel Posch.
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