The 22-year-old improves the national record again, but in the final 1500 m run he lacks the energy for the really big coup.
Happy about the European Championship silver medal in the decathlon: the Swiss Simon Ehammer.
It was probably a kind of déjà vu for Ehammer. He had already led in the heptathlon at the World Indoor Championships, but in the end he had to be happy to win bronze. He is not a gifted runner, and in Munich his biggest opponent was someone who can run the 1500 m very quickly. Niklas Kaul let himself be carried away by the energy of the home crowd and ran the fastest time in his life in 4:10.04.