Finals 2023: Turn-Ass Brendel wins second title – Toba wins on horizontal bar

Finals 2023
Turn ace Brendel wins second title – Toba wins on horizontal bar

Pascal Brendel from Wetzlar won his second title at the end of the German Gymnastics Championships in Düsseldorf. The 19-year-old all-around champion and eighth at the European Championships in the six-way event won the vault with 14.399 points ahead of 18-year-old Maxim Kovalenko (Bous) with 13.883 points.

Routinier won the last competition Andreas Toba gold on horizontal bar despite a shoulder injury. Three weeks after the 32-year-old from Hanover dislocated his collarbone, he won with 13.866 points. Gabriel Eichhorn from Stuttgart came second with 13.466 points ahead of Fabian Lotz (Niedergirmes/13.233). In the absence of Lukas Dauser, who came second at the Olympics and World Championships, Glenn Trebing from Hanover secured gold on bars with 13.933 points.

In a gripping final on the balance beam, former world champion Pauline Schäfer-Betz (Chemnitz) won with 13.700 points ahead of the 2022 European champion, Emma Malewski (Chemnitz/13.066). The qualification second Sophie Scheder (Chemnitz) had to settle for sixth place after two descents.

After her titles in the all-around and on the uneven bars, the German record champion Elisabeth Seitz took bronze on floor with 12,800 points. Lea Marie Quaas from Chemnitz came first with 13.133 points ahead of Anna-Lena König from Karlsruhe (13.100).

dpa