Modern pentathlon: Drama on the back of Saint Boy – pentathlete Annika Schleu from Berlin has to bury her dream of a medal after a completely unsuccessful ride. She was in the lead, but then remained without points in show jumping and fell from first to 31st place with 551 points before the final laser run. Schleu and Beijing Olympic champion Lena Schöneborn in the stands burst into tears. The second German starter Rebecca Langrehr (Berlin / 717) is also in 29th place with no chance of a medal.
Sports soldier Schleu had tackled riding with a margin of 24 points over Russian athlete Juliana Bataschowa. On the back of Saint Boy, on which the Russian Gulnas Gubaidullina had already missed points before Schleu, nothing went on. Schleu only managed to get the horse drawn for her onto the course with great difficulty. There Saint Boy refused several times. “Go on, go on,” said national coach Kim Raisner – it was of no use.
“Nobody can empathize better than me. It’s one-to-one the situation that I had in Rio,” said Schöneborn, who lost her chance to win a medal on the back of “Legende” in Brazil in 2016, on ARD: ” It’s the worst case that has now occurred. With all the other scores, something else could have happened if Annika couldn’t have taken a medal. It’s very shocking. “
Track cycling: Track bike sprinter Lea Sophie Friedrich set an Olympic record at the start of the fifth day of the competition. The 21-year-old won the sprint qualification in 10.310 seconds. World champion Emma Hinze, 23, with whom Friedrich won the silver medal in the team sprint, set the third fastest time on the track in 10.381 seconds over the flying 200 meters. Both made it to the next round on Friday without any problems.
Meanwhile, Franziska Brauße and Lisa Klein took twelfth place in the two-man team race three days after their outstanding gold medal in the four. The duo came on Friday after 30 kilometers in the so-called Madison competition after two laps to 40 minus points. Great Britain won gold with 78 points ahead of Denmark (35) and the Russian Olympic Committee (26).
Athletics: The Italian Antonella Palmisano won the gold medal in the 20-kilometer walk. The 30-year-old prevailed in the heat race in Sapporo in 1: 29.12 hours on Friday. Saskia Feige from SC Potsdam did not finish as the only German participant: the medical student ended the competition prematurely. The Colombian Sandra Lorena Arenas took silver in 1: 29.37 hours ahead of the three-time world champion and Rio Olympic champion Liu Hong from China (1: 29.57). Before that, Jonathan Hilbert had surprisingly won silver over 50 kilometers of walking and thus won the first German walking medal in 29 years. The 26-year-old from the LG Ohra only had to admit defeat to the Pole Dawid Tomala (3:50:08) in Sapporo in 3:50:44 hours. Bronze went to Evan Dunfee from Canada (3:50:59).
Wasserspringen: Timo Barthel has reached the semi-finals from the tower. Barthel received 395.70 points for his six jumps on Friday. That was enough for 13th place. “My competition was very bumpy. There is still a lot of room for improvement,” said Barthel. The second German starter, Jaden Eikermann, who was only 16 years old, was eliminated in the preliminary competition. His jumps from a height of ten meters were rated with 330.75 points. He was ranked 21. First of the preliminary competition was the Chinese Yang Jian with 546.90 points. The best 18 jumpers advanced one round.
Kanu: The three-time Canadian Olympic champion Sebastian Brendel prevented an early exit at the Olympic Games on his parade route and reached the semifinals. After taking third place in the preliminary run, the Potsdam-based man saved his chance for a medal in the single over 1000 meters with a victory in the quarter-finals. The decisions will be made on Saturday. It was “mentally a problem” to “get into the right mode” for the quarter-finals, said Brendel. To land on the podium, “a lot has to go well and run properly. I can always win the medals, but it won’t be as confident as in Rio,” he said. Team mate Conrad Scheibner (Berlin) made it into the semifinals as second in his heat.
The men’s four-man kayak around veteran Ronald Rauhe (Potsdam) also qualified for the semi-finals as the preliminary winner over 500 meters. The world champions are the top favorites for gold. In the women’s category, the four-man kayak and the two-man canoe with Lisa Jahn (Berlin) and Sophie Koch (Karlsruhe) each qualified for the semifinals over 500 meters. Both boats finished second in their heats.
Volleyball: With a win against Serbia, the American volleyball players have made it to the final. They won 3-0 in the semifinals (25:19, 25:15, 25:23). In the final they will face Brazil or South Korea on Sunday.
Basketball: The basketball players from the USA storm almost inexorably towards their ninth Olympic victory. In the semifinals, the team finished Serbia 79:59 (41:23) and only needs one win to get the seventh gold in a row. On Sunday the final is against Japan or France; both teams had clearly beaten the Americans in the preliminary round. Brittney Griner (15 points) and Chelsea Gray (14) were particularly convincing against the Serbians.
Beachvolleyball: The Americans April Ross and Alix Klineman won gold in beach volleyball. The team, against which Olympic champions Laura Ludwig and Margareta Kozuch were eliminated in the quarter-finals, defeated Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy from Australia clearly 2-0 on Friday (21:15, 21:16). The 39-year-old Ross won her third Olympic medal after silver in London and bronze in Rio. For Klineman, Tokyo was the Olympic premiere. The European champions Joana Heidrich and Anouk Vergé-Dépré secured bronze with a 2-0 (21:19, 21:15) against the Latvians Tina Graudina and Anastasija Kravcenoka.
Golf: US golf star Nelly Korda is clearly on the gold course. The 23-year-old world number one confidently claimed the top on Friday in the Kasumigaseki Country Club with a round of 69 and a total of 198 strokes. Before the final day, the daughter of the former Czech tennis professional Petr Korda has three strokes ahead of the second-placed Indian Aditi Ashok (201). The German golfer Caroline Masson improved on the third day of the tournament on the par 71 course in the north of Tokyo with a round of 68 and a total of 209 strokes to a shared 20th place. “Overall, I can be satisfied with the day,” said the 32-year-old from Gladbeck.
Track cycling: The Dutch track cyclist Laurine van Riessen broke her collarbone, several ribs and bruised her lungs in her fall on Thursday during the Olympic Keirin competition. The 33-year-old is in a hospital in Tokyo, as a Dutch spokesman said. Van Riessen hit the rear wheel of world champion Emma Hinze in the quarter-final run of the so-called fighting sprint and then collided with Briton Katy Marchant. She was taken off the train on a stretcher. Her teammate Shanne Braspennincx won the Olympic Keirin.
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