“Athletics is back” – with this striking title, the LG Stadtwerke München not only drew attention to the fact that the indoor season had started. It also announced the Munich Indoor, its own indoor event, which has been established for years. Because she actually returned. It was canceled in 2021 due to the pandemic, but almost 600 active people from U16 to adults, from Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic, had announced themselves for last Sunday – a demanding mass event, under “strictest hygiene rules” and 2G-plus requirements .
It was the first success ever to get everything across the stage without an accident. “It went in quick succession, but everything went perfectly,” judged LG President Jochen Schweitzer. Not a matter of course, because due to the uncertain situation, the people of Munich had only decided three weeks earlier to actually “stamp the meeting in the Werner-von-Linde-Halle out of the ground”, as Schweitzer said. With southern Bavarian and Bavarian ones have “groped their way from championship to championship”.
And of course there were also sporting successes for the organizers on Sunday, such as the 7.55 seconds over 60 meters by Marina Scherzl, one of the sprinters who switched to LG in winter, who finished third behind Nooralotta Neziri from Finland, Magdalena Lindner from Austria and vor Team colleague Svenja Pfetsch. In addition, 19.06 meters for U18 shot putter Georg Hampf, who leads the German leaderboard. And the victory of the 800-meter runner Christina Hering over 400 meters, in 54.11 seconds, just past her best time. Training colleague Katharina Trost was excused: In Metz she had to improve her 800 meter record by four tenths to 2:02.74 minutes.