Ecker hoping to bring late season momentum to WAF

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Ecker hoping to bring late season momentum to Stuttgart – World Athletics Final
Thursday 20 September 2007

Stuttgart, Germany - At the very end of his best ever season Danny Ecker will stage some sort of a comeback at the IAAF / VTB Bank World Athletics Final, Stuttgart, Germany, 22/ 23 September 2007.

It was eight years ago that the German pole vaulter had last qualified for the IAAF World Athletics Final (WAF) or its predecessor the IAAF Grand Prix Final. It is a coincidence that the venues from 1999 and 2007 are both in Germany and little more than an hour’s drive apart. While this weekend’s final will be held in Stuttgart’s Daimler Stadium, eight years ago the Grand Prix Final was held in Munich’s Olympic Stadium. But Ecker will hope that there will not be any more parallels to 1999 this weekend, since he had finished last in that competition with a clearance of 5.50m.




Danny Ecker of Germany wins the Pole Vault with 5.71m in Birmingham
(Getty Images)

“I am happy that I have qualified for the World Athletics Final since it is a long time ago that I did manage to do so,â€Â