At the beginning of the seventh day of the competition, the Germany eight did not get the gold he had hoped for, but rowed for silver. There is a victory for the German hockey women. The increase in the number of corona cases continues at the Olympics in Tokyo.
Also on Friday there will be an early medal for Germany at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. In addition, the athletes start their competitions in the Olympic Stadium. A swimmer from South Africa sets a world record.
Row I: The Germany eight won the silver medal, but missed his big goal. After three World Championship titles in a row, the parade boat of the German Rowing Association had to admit defeat to the New Zealand team in the final on the Sea Forest Waterway. Great Britain came in third. So the eighth is still waiting for the first gold medal since the 2012 Summer Games in London. Five years ago in Rio it had also made it to silver.
“We drove to the limit from the front. The light went black for me in the second half,” said batsman Hannes Ocik after the race over the 2000 meter long regatta course. “And I know that when it’s black for me, it’s over for the others. We are in an area where we can no longer actively control ourselves. It all happens subconsciously.”
Row II: One day after his surprising end in the semifinals, one-rower Oliver Zeidler won the B-final. The 25-year-old won ahead of the Italian Gennaro di Mauro and the Canadian Trevor Jones. The Ingolstadt-based man, who went into the competition as a gold candidate, ended the summer games in seventh place. With significantly weaker winds and less swell, Zeidler got along much better on the Sea Forest Waterway than about 24 hours earlier.
Corona numbers continue to rise
Corona: The corona numbers continue to rise. With 27 positive cases around the games, a new daily high was registered after there had been 24 new infections the day before. This was announced by the organizers of the games. So many cases had not been recorded in one day since recording began on July 1. Again, there are three athletes among the positive cases. The organizers do not publish the names of the athletes. The number of positive tests relating to the competitions in Japan rose to 220. A total of 27 athletes have been infected with the corona virus so far.
Hockey: Led by double goalscorer Lisa Altenburg, the German hockey women also won their fourth group game. Against the bottom of South Africa, the team of national coach Xavier Reckinger achieved a sovereign 4: 1 (3: 0) success. The selection of the German Hockey Association thus caught up with the also still undefeated world champions Netherlands, who lead group A. The German women had already secured the quarter-final ticket. Against the top favorite Netherlands it is now on Saturday (11.30 a.m. CEST) to win the group.
Shoot: The pistol shooter Doreen Vennekamp from Hüttengesäß has reached the Olympic final when shooting with the sport pistol. After an almost perfect second qualification competition in rapid fire and two 100 series, the Olympic debutante finished fourth with a total of 586 rings and made it into the finals of the best eight. On the other hand, co-favorite Monika Karsch from Regenburg is eliminated.
Athletics starts
Athletics I: The discus throwers Daniel Jasinski and Clemens Prüfer trembled their way into the Olympic final. Above all, the bronze medalist from Rio de Janeiro in 2016 was not satisfied with his qualification. “It’s disappointing,” said Jasinski. With his longest throw over 63.29 meters, the 31-year-old from Wattenscheid only landed seventh in Group A, but then made it to the final. “It was close in Rio too, let’s have a look,” said Jasinski, whose good mood was “maybe a bit of a show”. In 2016 he reached the final with 62.83 meters.
Athletics II: Former European Championship runner-up Gina Lückenkemper did not start over 100 meters. As a replacement for the injured sprinters Lisa Mayer (Wetzlar) and Lisa Nippgen (Mannheim), the 24-year-old joined the Olympic team of the German Athletics Association at short notice. DLV head coach Annett Stein had previously ruled out a double start from Lückenkemper, who did not make the Tokyo norm due to a muscle injury, and announced a use in the sprint relay.
South African sets world record in swimming
Swim: The South African breaststroke swimmer Tatjana Schoenmaker won gold over 200 meters in a world record time. The 24-year-old struck after 2: 18.95 minutes and improved the old record of Rikke Møller Pedersen from 2013 by 16 hundredths of a second. While still in the pool, Schoenmaker burst into tears and was hugged by some of her competitors. Schoenmaker’s record was the first individual world record at these Olympic Games in swimming.
BMX: Two serious falls overshadowed the BMX races. In the semifinals, Rio Olympic champion Connor Fields from the USA and Australian Saya Sakakibara apparently suffered more serious injuries, both of which had to be carried away on a stretcher. Niek Kimmann from the Netherlands, who had a violent collision with a marshal during training a few days ago, secured the Olympic victory. In the women’s category, Bethany Shriever from Britain won.
Judo: The German judokas Johannes Frey and Jasmin Grabowski were eliminated in their opening matches. Frey from Düsseldorf lost in the weight category over 100 kilograms on Friday to Javad Mahjoub from Iran, who started for the refugee team of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), through Waza-ari. The two-bridge woman Grabowski had to admit defeat to the Asian champion Shiyan Xu from China in the weight class over 78 kilograms by Ippon. The individual competitions in the venerable martial arts temple Nippon Budokan thus end with two medals for the German team.
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