Tennis: Alexander Zverev and Jan-Lennard Struff have kept their chance of a medal at the Olympic Games in doubles. The German duo won against the French Jeremy Chardy and Gael Monfils 6: 4, 7: 5 in Tokyo on Tuesday evening. Thanks to the second win, the last German men’s doubles remaining in the competition made it to the quarter-finals.
Under floodlights on outside court four and supported by the small German tennis delegation on the spectator seats, the pairing initially missed three set balls in a row with a 5-3 lead. When Struff served, the first set was won. A break was also enough in the second round.
In the quarterfinals, Zverev and Struff will now meet US professionals Austin Krajicek and Tennys Sandgren. Kevin Krawietz and Tim Pütz had previously been eliminated in the double round of 16. In the individual round of 16, the German Tennis Association is still represented by Zverev and Dominik Koepfer.
Swim: Former swimming world champion Marco Koch suffered a disappointing run-out at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. The 31-year-old hit the 200 meter chest on Tuesday after 2: 10.18 minutes and was only 20th at the end of all heats. At the Olympic Games in 2012 and 2016, the 2015 world champion took seventh place.
In her first important race in two years, Franziska Hentke, second in the 2017 World Championship, reached the semi-finals. The 32-year-old finished eleventh over 200 meters butterfly in 2: 09.98 minutes. Since the three-time Olympic champion Katinka Hosszu from Hungary skipped the preliminary run, none of the 16 starters were eliminated. Over 100 meters freestyle was the end of the line for Damian Wierling from Essen after 48.83 seconds in 26th place.
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.
Judo: Judoka Dominic Ressel narrowly failed in the fight for the first medal for the German Judo Association at the Olympic Games. The 27-year-old from Kronshagen lost on Tuesday in the legendary Nippon Budokan in Tokyo in the small final against the Austrian Shamil Borchashvili by Ippon and missed bronze.
The tenth in the world rankings ended his first Olympic Games in fifth, the best result so far for the DJB team in Tokyo. Ressel had previously worked his way into the bronze fight in the weight class up to 81 kilograms after an unfortunate quarter-final defeat over the hope round.
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.
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.
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.
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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