The water jumpers Lena Hentschel and Tina Punzel gave the German team the first medal at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
In synchronized jumping from the three-meter board, the European champions won the bronze medal.
Hentschel and Punzel only had to admit defeat to the strong Chinese winners Shi Tingmao and Wang Han as well as the duo from Canada in the Tokyo Aquatics Celntre on Sunday.
At the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, record European champion Patrick Hausding won the only German jumping medal with bronze in artificial jumping from the three-meter board.
The success at the start gives the team around Flag Bearer Hausding a boost - and probably not just that.
For the Berliner Hentschel and Punzel from Dresden, it is the greatest success of their career to date.
In order to be able to train better with Punzel, the 20-year-old Hentschel moved to Dresden especially.
In contrast to Hentschel, Punzel was already there in Rio.
There the now 25-year-old finished seventh in synchronized jumping from the three.
She is also a four-time European champion.
She had flirted with bronze before the games.
In Japan the DSV is represented in jumping in all four individual disciplines as well as in three of the four synchronized competitions.
“We completed the same preparation program as before the World Cup in Tokyo.
We trained again at night to simulate the time difference.
It worked well then.
We hope that we will be successful this time too, ”said national coach Lutz Buschkow before the competition.
The first success is there.
"If we as a team manage to exhaust our capabilities in Tokyo, we can win one or two medals," said Buschkow.
Flag bearer Hausding will start the synchronized jumping from the three-meter board with Lars Rüdiger on Wednesday.