Table tennis: Germany’s table tennis professional Timo Boll has again missed the quarter-finals. The 40-year-old from Düsseldorf had to admit defeat to the South Korean Youngsik Jeoung in 1: 4 sets (8:11, 11: 7, 7:11, 9:11, 4:11) at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Tuesday. For Boll it will be the sixth Olympic Games, so he missed the hoped-for first medal in the individual again.
With the team, the record European champion is also one of the candidates for precious metal in Tokyo. Boll’s national team-mate Dimitri Ovtcharov and Han Ying in the women’s team had made it into the round of 16.
Wasserspringen: The German water divers did not lack much for the second medal. Tina Punzel and Christina Wassen took fifth place in the synchronized jumping from the tower. Bronze and Mexico were down 6.84 points on Tuesday. As expected, the Olympic champions were Chinese Chen Yuxi (15) and Zhang Jiaqi (17) with 363.78 points ahead of Jessica Parratto and Delaney Schnell from the USA. For Punzel from Dresden it would have been the second medal at the Summer Games in Japan after bronze in synchronized jumping from the three-meter board. She is still at the start in artificial jumping from the three-meter board with a chance of the final.
Most recently, there were two medals for the German diver in Beijing in 2008. In Tokyo they still have other opportunities. Flag bearer Patrick Hausding will be at the start for the first time on Wednesday (8:00 a.m. CEST) together with Lars Rüdiger. In synchronized jumping from the three-meter board, you count towards the extended circle of medal candidates.
Tennis: The two-time French Open winners Kevin Krawietz and Tim Pütz were eliminated in the second round of the doubles competition. The duo from Coburg and Frankfurt lost on Tuesday against the British pairing Andy Murray and Joe Salisbury with 2: 6, 6: 7 (2: 7). Because of the rain, the game had started with a delay and, from the perspective of the Germans, was interrupted again for around two hours when the score was 1: 2. The former world number one Murray, two-time Olympic champion in singles, had temporarily withdrawn from the singles competition in favor of the doubles due to thigh problems. The second round of the second German men’s doubles Alexander Zverev and Jan-Lennard Struff is also scheduled for Tuesday.
Triathlon: Laura Lindemann missed a medal despite a strong performance. The 25-year-old from Potsdam came in eighth on Tuesday morning in the victory of Flora Duffy, who won the first gold in history for Bermuda. Lindemann, who was second after cycling, was 1:21 minutes short of the first medal of a German triathlete at the summer games.
“I was really at the limit the whole time,” said Lindemann on ARD: “I just didn’t have the strength when running. I started running, and then I noticed that I had to give a lot when cycling. Then I got myself still saved at the finish. ” The 33-year-old ex-world champion Duffy was after 1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running in 1:55:36 hours ahead of the Briton Georgia Taylor-Brown (+1: 14 minutes) and Katie Zaferes ( USA / +1: 27) through. For the British overseas territory of Bermuda, which has only 64,000 inhabitants, it was the second medal after bronze for boxer Clarence Hill in Montreal in 1976.
Lindemann was 2:48 minutes behind at the finish. Nevertheless, it was the best place for a German triathlete in an Olympic race. Anja Dittmer (2004) and Anne Haug (2012) were each in eleventh place. The second German starter Anabel Knoll (Ingolstadt) came in 31st (+9: 09). The Ukrainian Julia Jelistratowa was not at the start. According to the International Test Agency (ITA), EPO was detected in a doping test in June in the 33-year-old. Yelistratowa was temporarily banned.
Swim: 17-year-old Lydia Jacoby has ousted Rio double Olympic champion Lilly King from her throne. In the final over 100 m breaststroke, the American from Alaska was surprisingly the first to strike. The world record holder and seven-time world champion King even only stayed third because the South African Tatjana Schoenmaker snapped silver.
The British Tom Dean surprised over the 200 m freestyle, hitting four hundredths of a second ahead of his favorite compatriot Duncan Scott. In the Russian double victory over 100 m backseat, Vice World Champion Yevgeny Rylow only distanced his teammate Kliment Kolesnikow by two hundredths in the European record time of 51.98 seconds. Rio Olympic champion and world record holder Ryan Murphy had to be satisfied with bronze.
The third swimming gold in Tokyo for Australia was won by world record holder Kaylee McKeon over 100 m back. The world championship fifth prevailed in front of the Canadian world champion Kylie Masse and the American Regan Smith. US superstar Katie Ledecky suffered another defeat. After the five-time Olympic gold medalist in the 400m freestyle lost to her Australian challenger Ariarne Titmus, she was also slower in the semifinals over half the distance. The title is on Wednesday morning. Young hopefuls Isabel Gose (Magdeburg) and Annika Bruhn (Neckarsulm) were eliminated as eleventh and 14th.
Shoot: European champion Carina Wimmer (Kelheim Gmünd) and marksman Christian Reitz (Regensburg) clearly missed a medal. In the mixed competition with the air pistol, the duo of the German Schützenbund (DSB) took twelfth place with 571 rings on Tuesday and missed the next round. Sports soldier Wimmer contributed 281 rings, Reitz came up with 290 rings. China grabbed the first Olympic gold in this competition. For Wimmer and Reitz it was the second assignment in Japan. Wimmer failed to qualify as 20th in the air pistol singles. Reitz, Rio Olympic champion with the rapid fire pistol, had achieved fifth place with his auxiliary weapon. At the end of the shooting competitions on Monday, he is aiming for a medal in his favorite discipline.
Judo: Dominic Ressel ensured the first victory of a German judoka. The 27-year-old from Kronshagen won his opening fight in the weight class up to 81 kilograms on Tuesday against the Palestinian Wesam Abu Rmilah after a minute with Ippon. Ressel will now meet Frank de Wit from the Netherlands in the round of 16. On the first three days of competition in the legendary Nippon Budokan, the German judokas failed at the start. Martyna Trajdos also lost her first fight on Tuesday. The 32-year-old from Hamburg lost in the weight class up to 63 kilograms to the Hungarian Szofi Ozbas in the Golden Score with Waza-ari.
Taekwondo: For the former world champion Alexander Bachmann, the dream of a medal burst early. The 27-year-old sports soldier from Stuttgart was already defeated in his opening fight in the over 80 kg class to the Kazakhs Ruslan Schaparow with 7:11 and was eliminated. In order to have a second chance over the consolation round, Bachmann should have reached the quarter-finals. Bachmann had shown himself to be very self-confident before the competition. “I want to win a medal. Preferably the gold one,” he said fiercely.
In the end, Bachmann did not even reach the minimum goal in the field of only 16 fighters: his wife Rabia had made it to the quarter-finals in Rio in 2016 under her maiden name Gülec. Bachmann won World Cup gold in the class up to 87 kg in 2017. At the Olympic Games, however, there are only four instead of the eight weight classes at World Championships, so the competition is much closer. Faissal Ebnoutalib (2000 in Sydney / silver) and Helena Fromm (2012 in London / bronze) remain the only two athletes who have so far won Olympic gold in Taekwondo for Germany.
Hockey: After the second win in the third game, the German men are about to move into the knockout round. The team of coach Kais al Saadi prevailed on Tuesday at the Oi Hockey Stadium with 5: 1 (1: 1) against Great Britain and thus achieved a very important victory in the fight for a good starting position for the quarter-finals. The other opponents are South Africa on Thursday and the Netherlands on Friday. Four teams from the group of six move into the knockout round. The German selection started in the meanwhile pouring rain from Tokyo, but initially fell behind due to a goal from Briton Phillip Roper (9th minute).
Shortly before the end of the first quarter, Florian Fuchs equalized after a penalty corner (15th). In the second quarter, the DHB selection survived a double deficit, after the break Christopher Rühr then outnumbered the well-deserved lead (35th). Justus Weigand increased to 3: 1 (42nd), in the final phase Fuchs met again (51st / 60th). The al Saadi team showed a good reaction to the first defeat at the Olympic tournament against world champions Belgium (1: 3) on Monday. At the start, the German selection won 7-1 against outsiders Canada.
Mountainbike: Jolanda Neff is the first Swiss Olympic champion. The 28-year-old won the Swiss triple success ahead of Sina Frei and Linda Indergand. The German starters Ronja Eibl (Grosselfingen) and Elisabeth Brandau (Schönaich) fell short of expectations. Eibl took 19th place, Brandau was lapped in the fourth lap and was eliminated in 32nd place. On the 20.55-kilometer course in Izu, two hours west of Tokyo, ex-world champion Neff pulled away from the peloton early on. Frei, Indergand and the top French favorite Loana Lecomte eventually formed the chase group. When Lecomte jumped down the chain and lost the connection, the road to historic success was clear.
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