25th August 2013 08:11
The third part of this high jump weekend features the women's event with Russian Svetlana Shkolina, the world champion.
But on Saturday any hopes that men’s world champion Bohdan Bondarenko had of even attempting the meeting record of 2.40m, let alone the world record of 2.45m, disappeared as the event was interrupted by a thunderstorm.
Ukrainian Bondarenko won at this European Athletics Special Premium meeting, but his victory in 2.30m tells the story of just how difficult the conditions were.
Shkolina will be looking to maintain her fine run which brought gold in Moscow at the IAAF World Championships when she beat defending and Olympic champion - and teammate - Anna Chicherova into third with a clearance of 2.03m.
She then repeated her victory at the DN Galan Diamond League meeting in Stockholm on Thursday evening.
She then repeated her victory at the DN Galan Diamond League meeting in Stockholm on Thursday evening.
It has been a great time for Russian high jumping and Shkolina proved that once more, a year after winning bronze at the Olympic Games in London.
Her rivals in Germany on Sunday include two of the best women in Europe: Spain's Ruth Beitia and Sweden's Emma Green Tregaro.
Beitia won gold at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki last summer on countback with 1.97m and then added the European Athletics Indoor crown in Göteborg in March with 1.99m.
On both occasions Green Tregaro was third, sharing bronze in Finland and winning it outright at home in Sweden.
On both occasions Green Tregaro was third, sharing bronze in Finland and winning it outright at home in Sweden.
Great Britain's Isobel Pooley is also in the field, fresh from winning the women's under-23 event on Friday evening in Eberstadt.
She took that title with 1.90m from Sietske Noorman, of the Netherlands, with 1.83m and Germany's Sabrina Gehrung with 1.78m.
She took that title with 1.90m from Sietske Noorman, of the Netherlands, with 1.83m and Germany's Sabrina Gehrung with 1.78m.
But it was Saturday afternoon, with the bar up to 2.24m, when the competition had to be delayed for 35 minutes as rain hit.
Helpers cleared the area of water so a crowd of 1700 could still see the top men in action, even if conditions meant no sensational heights were likely to be achieved.
Bondarenko went over at 2.27m when the event re-started and then the weather worsened again. But the men were not going to give in and the Ukrainian triumphed with 2.30m, before laying down in the pouring rain to celebrate.
He said: 'The crowd was just was great.'
The next four men all finished on 2.27m, with Russia's Daniil Tsyplakov second on countback from countryman Ivan Ukhov, the Olympic champion, who shared third place with Andriy Protsenko, of the Ukraine, with Great Britain's Robbie Grabarz back in fifth.
There was a home one-two win in the men's under-23 competition on Friday as Mateusz Przybylko jumped 2.18m to triumph from Tobias Potye's 2.14m with Britain's Chris Kandu third with 2.05m.