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Anna Keyserlingk wants to be elected to the WZ sports team

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Anna Keyserlingk wants to be elected to the WZ sports team

Athlete’s choice in Krefeld: This is Anna Keyserlingk from SC Bayer 05 Uerdingen

Anna Keyserlingk focuses on U20 World Cup in Colombia. Before that, with a bit of luck, she could be elected to the WZ sports team.

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She is considered one of the greatest talents in German athletics. Anna Gräfin Keyserlingk from SC Bayer 05 Uerdingen is in a class of her own in the U20 triple jump. Last year, the 18-year-old Husser qualified for the European U20 Championships in Tallinn (Estonia) with a personal best of 13.20 meters. It was also the norm for the U20 World Cup in Nairobi. However, this was canceled due to the corona pandemic.

Keyserlingk only made the triple jump in the U16s. “We started jumping through rings. My coach at the time saw that I was good at it,” the high school graduate recalls. In addition to the triple jump, she continued to do all-around. During the pandemic, however, the competitions became fewer and the focus shifted to triple jump. A divine providence, as we know today.

With her trainer Peter Quasten, Keyserlingk consistently works on the technique and landing in the triple jump. If you keep up the speed in the individual jumps, you can quickly jump much further. Keyserlingk knows that too. “It’s gotten a lot better indoors. In the evaluation that we get from the national coach, it is also at the top of the list. We’re working on that.” If she keeps up the pace in the summer, she certainly has the potential to jump towards 13.50 meters.

Before that, however, the squad athlete will focus on qualifying for the U20 World Championships in Cali, Colombia. She has to jump 12.95 meters for it. A distance that she easily skipped in winter. After the 2022 indoor season, 13.37 meters are recorded for the jumping talent. It was the longest jump by a U20 athlete in Germany in 13 years. At the same time, she also leads the year’s European best performance in the U20 hall. The norm for Cali, therefore, seems to be just a formality.

Keyserlingk will be preparing in the training camp in Tenerife in the coming weeks so that he can present himself in top form in the qualifying competitions from May and fulfill his dream of winning the World Cup. As the German youth indoor champion in 2022, third place at the German youth championships and tenth at the European Championships 2021, she is one of the absolute top favorites for the title nationally this year. who

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