Gold for Germany: Neugebauer and Krause scoop European Championship titles
Leo Neugebauer wins in the decathlon, while Gesa Krause comes first in the 3,000-metre steeplechase. Both have won the first European Championship titles for Germany.
Birmingham (d.de) – At the European Athletics Championships, German world champion Leo Neugebauer has won gold in the decathlon after a dramatic 1,500-metre finish. The 26-year-old managed to beat his German teammate Niklas Kaul by just 38 points, scooping the second major title of his career with 8,611 points.
Shortly before, Gesa Krause had won the first European Championship title for Germany in the 3,000-metre steeplechase. On Thursday evening, the 34-year-old athlete from Trier beat second-placed Frenchwoman Alice Finot and her German teammate Olivia Gürth, who took bronze. Krause was able to celebrate her third European Championship title in this discipline, having already come first in Amsterdam in 2016 and in Berlin in 2018.
The titles won by Krause and Neugebauer are the first gold medals for the German athletics team at the European Championships in Birmingham. Steeplechase athlete Olivia Gürth and discus thrower Henrik Janssen also won bronze medals.
