The World Championships in Athletics will take place in Eugene from July 15th to July 24th. After the cancellations of prominent athletes such as Johannes Vetter and Christin Hussong, other Germans are now moving into the limelight. All important decisions and developments in the news ticker.

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11.30 a.m .: At the World Athletics Championships in Eugene / USA on the second day of competition in the German night on Sunday the focus is on the men’s 100 meter final (4.50 a.m.). On Saturday evening, among other things, the women’s 10,000 meters are on the program (9:20 p.m. CEST/sportschau.de). The best German long-distance runner Konstanze Klosterhalfen, who wants to concentrate on the 5000 meters, will not be there. Over this distance she finished third in the 2019 World Cup in Doha.

100 meters, men: The showdown in the men’s sprint is a big attraction at every World Championship. A question mark hangs over Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs. The Italian has been struggling with illnesses and injuries. Favorite for the title is Fred Kerley. The US sprinter stayed under ten seconds in seven races and leads this year’s world best list with 9.76 seconds. Only Julian Wagner from Thuringia will compete for Germany.

100 meters, women: Gina Lückenkemper was in top form at the German championships. She won the title in 10.99 seconds. Rival Alexandra Burghardt was ill in Berlin. After the excursion in the two-man bobsleigh at the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing with the silver win, the World Championships will continue in spikes. The women’s final is on Monday night (4:50 a.m.).

10,000 meters: Because of a corona infection, top runner Konstanze Klosterhalfen had to take a break before the World Cup. The woman from Leverkusen is the German record holder over 10,000 meters with 31:01.71 minutes. She came eighth at the Tokyo Olympics. In 2019 in Doha she won the 5000m World Championship bronze. Sifan Hassan from the Netherlands only contested her first race in 2022 last Saturday. Nevertheless, the double Olympic champion is the favourite.

400 meter hurdles: is Karsten Warholm in top form? The Norwegian sustained a leg injury in the first race in Rabat in early June and has not competed since. The pre-run on Saturday (10:20 p.m.) will show how the defending champion is doing. At the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo, he won gold with a world record time of 45.94 seconds. German starters are not included.

3000 meters obstacle: double European champion Gesa Krause only competed in one race this year in Stockholm and finished eighth. Previously, the World Cup third in 2015 and 2017 and Olympic fifth had to pause because of a cold. The pre-run on Saturday (7.35 p.m.) will be an endurance test for the final on Wednesday.

100 meters, women: The fight for titles and medals should become a Jamaican championship in the final on the German night on Monday (4.50 a.m.). Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce ran the 100 meters this year in 10.67 seconds, Shericka Jackson in 10.77 and Elaine Thompson-Herah in 10.79 seconds. At the Tokyo Games, she showed that the 2016 and 2021 Olympic champion can run faster: Thompson-Herah ran the second fastest time in history in 10.61 seconds. Only Florence Griffith-Joyner of the USA was faster in her 1988 world record of 10.49 seconds.

Heptathlon: Sophie Weißenberg is the only German starter in the women’s all-around, which begins on Sunday (7:35 p.m.). The 24-year-old from Leverkusen won the meeting in Ratingen and is about to make her World Cup debut. The Olympic seventh and Vice World Champion of 2017, Carolin Schäfer, did not start due to fitness deficits. Olympic champion Nafissatou Thiam from Belgium is also a favorite for the world title.

Marathon, men: The cast on Sunday (3:15 p.m.) is not that prominent. Kenya’s superstar Eliud Kipchoge has decided not to take part in the World Cup and prefers to start at the Berlin marathon on September 25th. Former world half marathon record holder and New York Marathon winner Geoffrey Kamworor of Kenya and Sisay Lemma of Ethiopia, who won the London Marathon last fall, are among the favourites. Also at the start is Tim Gröschel from Rostock.

11:00 a.m .: The German Athletics Association has so far been satisfied with the accommodation in the World Cup athletes’ village on the university campus in Eugene in the USA. “The first large group of German World Cup starters moved into quarters on campus this week and found very good conditions here,” DLV head coach Annett Stein told dpa on Thursday. “The athletes live in the most modern dormitories, for which the DLV made claims at an early stage.”

There, unlike in the other accommodations, the German athletes have their own bathroom in the room. “The distances are extremely short, the canteen is in the apartment block, the stadium entrance is 50 meters away,” Stein continued. In this way, the participants could optimally focus on their competitions. Athletes from other countries, on the other hand, had complained about the lack of air conditioning in their rooms and about shared bathrooms and a poor drinking water supply.

After the many cancellations by prominent DLV aces such as former world champion Johannes Vetter and European champion Christin Hussong in the javelin throw, the chances of success in the US state of Oregon have decreased. Although the DLV is going into the competitions with “great anticipation for atmospheric world championships”, it also has a few worries. “These cancellations cannot be compensated for with the extreme power density at world level,” said Stein. The World Cup starts this Friday and lasts until July 24th.