Hypomeeting 2010 Götzis

Headline on heptathlon

http://www.meeting-goetzis.at/index.php/?option=co...

Konrad Lerch is speaking about the biggest number of superstars in history.

Unfortunately Michael Schrader had to withdraw.

So far the following are supposed to come to Götzis:

Aleksey DROZDOV / RUS

Vasiliy KHARLAMOV / RUS

Mikk PAHAPILL / EST

Andres RAJA / EST

Jake ARNOLD / USA

Bryan CLAY / USA

Trey HARDEE / USA

Daniel ALMGREN / SWE

Petter OLSON / SWE

Roman SEBRLE / CZE

Maurice SMITH / JAM

Dimitriy KARPOV / KAZ

Oleksiy KASYANOV / UKR

Pascah BEHRENBRUCH / GER

Andrei KRAUCHANKA / BLR

Roland SCHWARZL / AUS

Dominik DISTELBERGER / AUS


Any news about more Germans (except Schrader who is out)? How about the French? Belgians? Dutch?

Re. the above, Schwarzl and Distelgerger represent naturally AUT, not AUS...

I think both Andre Niklaus and Romain Barras are also going to compete.

I don't speak Dutch or Swedish, but on their homepages it looks like if


Martineau / NED

Sintnicolaas /NED

Wiberg /SWE


would compete. Don't know if they are up-to-date though.

On the homepages of these German athletes I've read that they will compete in Götzis:


Andre Niklaus

http://www.andre-niklaus.he-webpack.de/news.html

Arthur Abele

http://www.arthur-abele.de

(not updated very often though)


Jan Felix Knobel

http://jfk.spacequadrat.de

His goal is to hit the 8000 for the first time

Maybe Janek can put the latter ones in the links-page


Nothing heared about Norman Müller and Nils Büker

On this weekend two competions:

Jedermann-Zehnkampf in Berlin

http://www.10-kampf-meeting-berlin.de

with Andre Niklaus in some events (not sure which ones)

Mehrkampf-Challenge in Kreuztal

http://www.zehnkampfteam.de/news/challenge-vorberi...

with Behrenbruch, Müller, Büker, Knobel

Perhaps we know more on Monday...

On IAAF page I've read that Suarez and Garcia plan to train in Italy the next weeks and compete in Götzis.

Any news about Diaz?

What about Sysoyev and Pogorelov (confirmed for Kladno)?

van Alphen / BEL

http://www.decateam.be/index.php/?page=hansbrd

The organizers confirmed today these nominations for HypoMeeting 2010:


Nicklas WIBERG / SWE

Larbi BOURAADA / ALG

Romain BARRAS / FRA

Nadir EL-FASSI / FRA

Eugene MARTINEAU / NED

Eelco SINTNICOLAAS / NED

Ingmar VOS / NED

Hans VAN ALPHEN / BEL

Massimo BERTOCCHI / CAN

Attila ZSIVOCZKY / HUN

I've just read about 10 more 8000ers have confirmed for Götzis. I think that is the same news which you got too.


Claus Marek talked about the "3rd Götzis-starter Behrenbruch. The other two should be Knobel and Büker.


So I don't know about Niklaus, Müller, Abele.


Anyway it is gonna be a very strong field

An update of the heptathlon list:


Ennis Jessica / GBR

Dobrynska Nataliya / UKR

Melnychenko Hanna / UKR

Yosypenko Lyudmyla / UKR

Chernova Tatyana / RUS

Oeser Jennifer / GER

Fountain Hyleas / USA

Zelinka Jessica / CAN

Nana-Djimou Antoinette / FRA

van Langen Yvonne / NED

Samuelsson Jessica / SWE

Züblin Linda / SUI

Norman Müller will compete in Bernhausen this weekend (not sure if in all events) and then in Ratingen four weeks later.


Still don't know if Niklaus, Suarez, Garcia really will we there!


Nothing heared about Sysoyev, Pogorelov, Diaz, Coertzen.


Does anybody know will definately *not* compete in Götzis beside Pappas, Schrader, Eaton, Müller, Abele?


Please don't say Hingsen, Thompson ...

The list of participants is now public at

http://www.meeting-goetzis.at

. . . And the start lists do not include Suarez or Garcia. Anyone have further word on this?

Suarez, Garcia and Diaz have now been confirmed.


They obviously had some delay with their Schengen visa and ticket arrangements, but now they are supposed to be in Götzis already.

Wiberg also is not listed on the official list of participants, though he was reported as a competitor earlier in this thread. Anyone know what the situation is?

The DECA newsletter #26 has Suarez, Diaz and Wiberg on the list (35 invitees, which is a huge number):


http://decathlonusa.typepad.com/deca/2010/05/deca-...

According to Daniel Almgren's blog Wiberg had to withdraw due to a knee injury he suffered while training in Portugal.

http://www.metrobloggen.se/jsp/public/index.jsp/?a...

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