zVeteran wrestler Leo Neugebauer showed up in top shape four months before the Paris Olympics. The 23-year-old won the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays in his adopted hometown. Austin with a clear advantage and 8708 points. He clearly won ahead of Lee Walburn with 7,694 points, but could not improve the German record.
Neugebauer also achieved it last year, when he broke Jürgen Hingsen's 1986 record with 8,836 points. This time Neugebauer scored his first goal at halftime. Decathlon of the year 29 points above its passing value of the previous year. Despite his personal best in the javelin throw (58.99 m), Neugebauer fell behind his best performances of 2023. At the start of Wednesday, Neugebauer had already established his personal best with the ball (17.26 m ).
At the World Championships in Budapest last year he finished fifth as the half-time leader. This did not happen to him during the German Good Friday night competition. Neugebauer has learned from his participation in the World Cup and is one of the greatest hopes of German athletics in the decathlon at the Paris Olympic Games this summer.
The athlete, who competes for VfB Stuttgart, recently attracted attention with an indoor record in the heptathlon. At the university championship in Boston he improved by 56 points Frank Busemann's national indoor record, which was more than two decades old, to 6,347 points.