Former European Athletics Champion Thomas Wessinghage regrets the bad performance of the German team at the World Championships in the USA. “Of course you suffer. But I haven’t just suffered since the days of Eugene, I’ve been suffering for 30 years,” said the 70-year-old on Tuesday at an appointment with the Rentrop publishing group in Munich. The German record from Wessinghage over 1500 meters from 1980 still applies today.