Table tennis: Dimitrij Ovtcharov just missed the final of the Olympic table tennis tournament. The third in London 2012 was defeated by the Chinese world champion and Olympic winner Ma Long 3: 4 despite a strong performance (11:13, 8:11, 11: 9, 11: 9, 7:11, 11: 5, 9:11) ) and plays for bronze on Friday. Opponent in the fight for his fifth Olympic medal is the only 19-year-old Lin Yun-Ju from Taiwan, who also lost 3: 4 to world number one fan Zhendong. For the fourth time in a row, two Chinese are in the Olympic final.
Ovtcharov started strong, but missed a set ball in the first round with a score of 10: 9. The last European in the competition then fell behind with 0-2 sets, but managed to equalize: the right-hander won the third round after being 7-9 behind, and in the fourth he made up a 5-8.
After Ovtcharov equalized again by winning the sixth set, the final round had to decide. Here Ma Long had the better nerve and turned his third power ball after 1:21 hours. In the 19th duel with the number three in the world, Ovtcharov suffered the 19th defeat.
Judo: World champion Anna-Maria Wagner won the second medal for the German Judo Association at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. The 25-year-old defeated the Cuban Kaliema Antomarchi in the small final on Thursday through Waza-ari and secured the bronze medal. Previously, the Ravensburger had lost the semi-finals in the weight class up to 78 kilograms against the Japanese ex-world champion Shori Hamada and thus missed the final battle. A good month after her world championship title, Wagner traveled to Tokyo with great ambitions and was one of the closest favorites in the venerable judo temple Nippon Budokan. For the German judo team it was the second medal in Tokyo after Eduard Trippel’s silver on Wednesday.
Kanu: Andrea Herzog won the next German medal in canoe slalom with bronze. The 21-year-old canoe single world champion landed in the final behind Jessica Fox (Australia) and Mallory Franklin (Great Britain) and thus continued the successful streak of the German Canoe Association (DKV). It is the third precious metal for the German slalom canoeists in Japan. Ricarda Funk (Bad Kreuznach) was Olympic champion in the kayak single, canoe specialist Sideris Tasiadis (Augsburg) won bronze.
rowing: Jonathan Rommelmann and Jason Osborne became the first German lightweight rowers to win an Olympic medal. The duo from Krefeld and Mainz had to admit defeat to Ireland on Thursday on the Sea Forest Waterway in Tokyo and won the silver medal. Bronze went to the Italian boat.
“I can’t quite believe it. We knew we were in good shape. We gave the Irish a lot today, they had a lot of struggles with us. We are super satisfied and can’t blame ourselves,” said Rommelmann on the ARD microphone. Osborne added: “We gave everything.”
Since the Olympic premiere in Atlanta in 1996, no German double-two had managed to reach the medal ranks. For women, however, there was silver in 2000 and 2004. Now Rommelmann / Osborne lifted the men into the Olympic history books with a courageous race in difficult wind conditions. On the 2000 meter long route there was a pushing wind in demanding but manageable conditions. Rommelmann and Osborne were in the lead for a long time, but had to let the strong Irishmen pass on the last part of the route. The gap was only 0.86 seconds.
In contrast, the gold favorite and single world champion Oliver Zeidler surprisingly missed the final. The 25-year-old from the Donau-Ruder-Club Ingolstadt only finished fourth in his semi-finals on Thursday. In order to move into the finals on Friday (2.42 a.m. CEST), the world and European champion would have had to be at least third. During his run, Zeidler was 0.6 seconds short of third place. In the last part of the route he could not keep up with the competition and lost meter by meter. Zeidler is now only allowed to compete in the B final and does not intervene in the battle for the medals.
Hockey: Germany’s hockey men have to tremble to make it to the quarter-finals. The DHB team conceded their second tournament defeat on Thursday in the surprising 3: 4 (3: 2) against South Africa and needed at least one point in the final group game against the World Cup second Netherlands to make the knockout on their own. Round to reach. Timm Herzbruch in the 8th minute, Lukas Windfeder (22nd) and Constantin Staib (24th) scored the goals for the German team, which had already lost to world champions Belgium at the beginning. For South Africa, Keenan Horne (9th), Matthew Guise-Brown (13th), Nicholas Spooner (45th) and Mustaphaa Cassiem (48th) met.
Swim: Double world champion Florian Wellbrock just missed the second medal for the German pool swimmer. The 23-year-old finished fourth in the 800 meter freestyle. In 7: 42.68 minutes, Wellbrock did not come close to his German record time of 7: 41.77 minutes from the lead on Thursday. The American Robert Finke secured gold. Silver went to Gregorio Paltrinieri from Italy, bronze went to the Ukrainian Michailo Romantschuk. “Fourth place is of course always bitter. But we couldn’t get any more today,” Wellbrock said immediately after the race on ARD. Now he wants to concentrate on his next start over the 1500 meters. “I’ll throw everything in there and see what comes out,” said Wellbrock. Two years after his historic double success at the 2019 World Cup in South Korea, when he won gold in open water over ten kilometers and over 1500 meters freestyle within a few days, Wellbrock did not make the hoped-for start in Japan with an award ceremony on the podium.
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