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Gymnastics: Team final at the World Gymnastics Championships: Rest for frequent starter Dauser

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Team final at the World Gymnastics Championships: Rest for frequent starter Dauser

Lukas Dauser in action on the pommel horse. photo

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The first medals will be awarded at the World Gymnastics Championships in Antwerp. The German team is there. The national coach has other plans for frequent starter Lukas Dauser.

Frequent starter Lukas Dauser should be spared in the team all-around competition at the World Gymnastics Championships in Antwerp this Tuesday (from 7.30 p.m./ARD livestream). The 30-year-old Olympic and World Cup runner-up on parallel bars should not be overstrained, said national coach Valeri Belenki to the German Press Agency. “He will definitely be there. But he probably won’t be able to do all the gymnastics,” explained the 54-year-old.

The team from the German Gymnastics Federation (DTB) qualified for the team final in fifth place, but far behind the top three teams from Japan, the USA and Great Britain. “If I’m honest, we have no chance of winning a medal with this team,” said Belenki before the first decision in Antwerp.

That’s why Dauser should save his energy for his future appearances, especially since he had to take a long break from competition due to a shoulder injury and had to miss the European Championships in April and the German championships in July. On Thursday, the Unterhachinger, who has lived in Halle/Saale for many years and trains there with Hubert Brylok, will compete in the individual hexathlon consisting of floor, parallel bars, horizontal bar, pommel horse, vault and rings. On Sunday there will be the final on his special parallel bars, for which he qualified as the best with 15,300 points and starts with very good prospects for a medal. “We are already attaching importance to the parallel bars final,” said Belenki.