For the second time this year, 400-meter sprinter Susanne Gogl-Walli (19th) made it into an Olympic semi-final. As the icing on the season’s cake, the Linz native also won the Austrian ancient record over her parade route.
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The 28-year-old also started small. More precisely, in the children’s decathlon: In 2011, as a 15-year-old – she was a latecomer – she ran over the lower rubber hurdles in the TipsArena in Linz, tried her hand at ball putting and threw a hard rubber ring – similar to the discus throw. “Those were my first competitions,” says Upper Austria’s athlete of the year, who primarily associates fun with these memories.
And it is precisely this competition format, the children’s decathlon, that will be held for the hundredth time on Sunday in Gmunden. It is organized by the Werthner brothers Roland, Georg and Ulrich, who thought out and implemented the concept in 2000. “We have modified the disciplines for the children,” says Roland Werthner, saying that the classic school triathlon, consisting of the 60-meter sprint, long jump and ball, is too much about “biological advantages.” In her model, on the other hand, the technical aspects of throwing a rocket-shaped vortex ball or pole vaulting, which is learned in a playful way, offer much more playful incentives, says Roland Werthner.
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