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Historic success of Austrian artistic gymnastics: Vinzenz Höck won the silver medal in the rings at the European Championships in Mersin, Turkey, on Sunday. With a perfectly successful freestyle (14,800 points), the 24-year-old from Graz only had to admit defeat to reigning Turkish world champion Ibrahim Colak (15,000). The bronze went to the Ukrainian Olympic rider Igor Radiwilow (14,766).
ÖFT gymnastics director Fabian Leimlehner missed words after the Innsbruck resident’s performance, but only briefly: “Incredible. It was a Herculean task. Vinzi has nerves of steel. “The praised man did not behave very differently:” Words fail me. Getting on the podium with Colak and Radiwilow is insane. A dream has come true, “Höck said.” After qualifying on Thursday, I knew my chances and really wanted a medal. I would have to lie if I said I wasn’t nervous. But I kept my nerves under control and did my best exercise in the season “.
To classify this performance, you should know: Vinzenz Höck EM Silver is the first in this color for Austria. Before that, there was only one other European Championship medal: Hans Sauter in 1955 with bronze on the pommel horse. The European Youth Champion of the Year 2014 has already shown with his World Cup victory in Hungary that the athletes of the Höck army can be expected this year.
