Isabel Weitzel (12e) Gets Off to a Successful Start in the New Season / Julius Grau (11e) Takes Bronze at the “Süddeutsche”

She hadn’t been exaggerating: In the October letter to parents, hammer thrower Isabel Weitzel sounded very confident when asked about the switch to the heavier women’s hammer. At the throwing meet in Niederselters on February 7, she handled the new 4-kg hammer with ease and achieved a distance of 48.20 m.

Isabel, an athlete on the DLV junior national team, immediately moved into 7th place on the DLV’s annual rankings.

However, Julius Grau is still 6 cm short of making the DLV’s annual high jump leaderboard. At the South German Championships in Karlsruhe on the first weekend of February, he once again cleared 1.87 m and finished in a commendable third place in his U18 age group.

The school community wishes both track and field athletes good luck and success for the new season—and hopes it will be injury-free!