Athletics Decathlon
“It’s unbelievable” – Neugebauer breaks German record
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“I have really put in a lot of work over the last two years,” said Neugebauer
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Shortly before the Olympic Games, decathlete Leo Neugebauer is making a splash in the USA. He wins the college championships and improves his own German record. The 23-year-old just misses one magical mark.
Two months before the Olympic Games in Paris, Leo Neugebauer achieved a dominant victory in the decathlon and improved his own German record. He just missed the 9000-point mark: The 23-year-old won the US College Championships in Eugene, Oregon, with 8961 points.
“It’s unbelievable. I can’t even describe how it feels. I can’t put my thoughts into words,” said Neugebauer after his last competition for the University of Texas. He would have liked to have cracked the 9000-point mark, but he didn’t have enough reserves in the final 1500-meter race on Thursday evening (local time). “I tried, I overtook people. But there are other disciplines where I can get the points,” said the athlete from VfB Stuttgart.
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Neugebauer had already made a big impression in the USA a year ago when he improved the ancient mark of decathlon legend Jürgen Hingsen to 8836 points. “I have really put in a lot of work over the last two years,” said Neugebauer about his time in Austin and said with a view to the Olympic Games: “I feel great.”
“The best athlete in America is a huge German”
The first day had already gone well for him, and on the second day Neugebauer continued to deliver strong results. He needed 14.36 seconds for the 110 meter hurdles, and he threw the discus 57.70 meters in his first attempt. In the pole vault, Neugebauer managed 5.21 meters, just like last year. After throwing 56.64 meters in the javelin, he finished the decathlon with a time of 4:44.61 minutes over 1500 meters.
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The 1.98 meter tall Neugebauer studies and trains in Austin at the University of Texas. He skipped the European Championships in Rome for the US College Championships. The success in Eugene should also pay off at the Olympics. At the World Championships a year ago, Neugebauer was the leader but fell back to fifth place after the first day.
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Children of German emigrants
Since Leo Neugebauer improved Jürgen Hingsen’s 39-year-old record, he became the shooting star of the decathletes – then it was the turn of a record by Frank Busemann, Olympic silver medalist in Atlanta in 1996: At the college championships in Boston, he achieved 6347 points in the heptathlon, thereby improving Busemann’s 22-year-old national indoor record. In February 2002, he had collected a total of 6291 points.
