Cologne / Turin - 8.71 meters! European Record EM-Gold! Sebas tian Bayer (was 22) then during the day not comprehend why he was in Turin for the long jumper-flyer from the nirvana: "Why, why, why - I can not say."
By as much as 54 inches of Aachen improved its pre-European Championship record (in Turin, he was) with the first jump of 8,29 m already victorious, and that he himself is not entirely at ease. Has he always speculated distances beyond 8.50 meters are not possible without doping.
"He will probably be revised," says Heide Ecker-Rosendahl, long jump Olympic Champion in 1972 and former world record holder with 6.84 meters. "I had to work, which has jumped so far, even more suspicious," she adds, "but even if you can put natural for any hand in the fire - I do believe that Sebastian is clean." She knows the 1 ,90-m-Schlake ( "The fact that he has a feeling for the long jump, I was always clear") from his time at Bayer Leverkusen. His giant leap explains the 62-year-old said: "The sprung floor in the hall has certainly played a role. Many can not handle it - it has fitted in Sebastian. "
This is confirmed by the Leverkusen Nils Winter, who won with 8,22 m silver: "The ground was safe leistungsfördernd, many jumped ten, 15 centimeters more than usual"
Winters team-mate Sebastian Bayer was only the beginning of the year pulled out of love for hurdler Carolin Nytra to Bremen. Heide Rosendahl: "We have tried to keep him. But he did not hang on every weekend on the highway. And we could not persuade his girlfriend to come to Leverkusen. "
While Bayer has been completed by his own admission "with 8,71 m" and has himself in the future, "not judged" will, he predicts Heide Rosendahl one thing: "This is a very beautiful expanse burden."
