World Cup standard! Stepanov runs the best time over 800 meters

World Cup standard! Stepanov runs the best time over 800 meters

In an exciting competition at the Merck Run Gala in Pfungstadt, 20-year-old Alexander Stepanov from VfL Sindelfingen caused a sensation. He achieved a sensational time of 1: 44.17 minutes over the 800 meters and thus placed in the history of German Middle Streckler. According to Nordkurier this is the best time of a German athlete for more than 20 years!

Stepanov was surprised at the performance. After all, his preparation was anything but optimal; Kniebstheses had limited his training opportunities. Six days earlier, he had already achieved a best time of 1: 46.08 minutes and thus fulfilled the norm for the upcoming World Athletics Championship in Tokyo. With his new personal record, he now occupies seventh place in the eternal German leaderboard, just a hundredth of a second behind the Olympic champion Nils Schumann and 52 hundredths of a second behind the German record by Willi Wülbeck.

an advancement through challenges

rising performance has no chance: Stepanov, who describes himself as a "late bloomer", experienced some physical disadvantages up to the U18. As from