East Germans in stunning warm-up

Press, 15 September 1988, Page 30

East Germans in stunning warm-up

NZPA-Reuter East Berlin East German athletes mastered appalling wet and blustery conditions yesterday to set an astonishing array of worldclass marks in their last pre-Olympic appearance. The throwers benefited from the blustering wind most with like Wyludda, who is not even in the Olympic team, yet again smashing her junior world discus record with an enormous 74.40 m throw that earned her second spot just behind Gabrielle Reinsch on 74.44. In the men’s discus, the world record holder, Juergen Schult, also took advantage of the favourable wind and hurled a season’s best of 70.46.

The sprinters had a

tougher task but emerging talent Sven Matthes bettered his junior European 100 m record to 10.14 seconds with a permissible tailwind while the main women’s team clocked 41.73 in the 4xloo, the world’s fastest this year. Multi-talented Heike Drechsler, clad in an all-in-one blue outfit, leapt a classy 7.19 in the long jump and then beat the world champion, Silke Moeller, into second place in the 200 m in 22.08, an incredible time given the cold weather. Petra Felke, who smashed her world javelin record with an 80.00 m effort last Friday, produced several throws over 70m and won with one of 74.62.