![]() ![]() She will instead line up in Ratingen, where she will be joined by Austrian record-holder Verena Mayr, who won world bronze in 2019 as Verena Preiner, and Austria’s world indoor pentathlon silver medallist Ivona Dadic, who both have the Tokyo entry standard from 2019. Schafer, who set a personal best of 6,836 in 2017, had planned to compete in Götzis in May, but missed that meeting, explaining on social media that unexpected vaccination side effects had disrupted her preparation. Germany's Carolin Schafer has the Tokyo 2020 heptathlon qualifying mark but wants to demonstrate sharpness at this weekend's World Athletics Challenge Combined Events meeting in Rattingen ©Getty Images Kaul’s 29-year-old compatriot Carolin Schafer also has the Tokyo standard thanks to the 6,426-point score she achieved in 2019, but the 2017 world heptathlon silver medallist will want to take the chance to demonstrate good form. The qualification period for combined events - for which the women’s heptathlon standard is 6,420 points - ends on June 29. Kaul’s compatriot Kai Kazmirek, the 2017 world bronze medallist, is another who has the Olympic standard from 2019 having scored 8,444 to win in Ratingen and will be looking to get close to that to secure a spot for Tokyo.Īlso among those fighting for places on Germany’s Olympic team will be 2016 world indoor heptathlon bronze medallist Mathias Brugger, who set his personal best of 8,304 points in 2018, and Tim Nowak, whose best is 8,229 from 2018.Īs well as the 11 athletes competing on home soil, the event will feature nine international decathletes including Ukraine's 2009 world bronze medallist Oleksiy Kasyanov, Japan’s Asian champion Keisuke Ushiro and Sweden’s Fredrik Samuelsson. The 23-year-old has already surpassed the men’s Olympic standard of 8,350 points thanks to his 8,691 total in winning the world title at Doha in 2019, but is still coming back to peak condition having taken 2020 off, during which time he had elbow surgery.Īfter finishing fifth on 8,263 at last month’s Götzis meeting across the Austrian border in his return to decathlon action, Kaul will be keen to make an Olympic statement of intent in the Stadtwerke Ratingen Mehrkampf-Meeting. Germany’s world decathlon champion Niklas Kaul will seek to confirm his place at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as he takes part in the World Athletics Challenge Combined Events two-day meeting in Ratingen in his home country, which starts tomorrow. ![]()
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