The sixth day of the decision at the Olympic Games in Tokyo started ambiguously for the German team.
Rowers Jonathan Rommelmann and Jason Osborne took silver, while their team-mate and gold favorite Oliver Zeidler surprisingly missed the final.
Even with the swimmers, there were not the hoped for results on Thursday.
Rowing I:
Jonathan Rommelmann and Jason Osborne were the first German lightweight rowers to win an Olympic medal. The duo from Krefeld and Mainz only just had to admit defeat to Ireland on the Sea Forest Waterway and won the silver medal. Bronze went to the Italian boat. Since the Olympic premiere in Atlanta in 1996, no German men's doubles have managed to reach the medal ranks.
Rowing II:
Gold favorite Oliver Zeidler is surprisingly not in the singles final. The 25-year-old from the Donau-Ruder-Club Ingolstadt only finished fourth in his semi-finals. 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 no longer keep up with the competition and lost meter by meter. Zeidler can now only compete in the B final.
Swimming I:
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 prelim. The American Robert Finke secured gold. Silver went to Gregorio Paltrinieri from Italy, bronze went to the Ukrainian Michailo Romantschuk.
Swimming II:
Philip Heintz missed the final of the 200 meter medley.
The 30-year-old hit after 1: 58.13 minutes and was seventh in his semifinals.
The fastest was Wang Shun from China with a time of 1: 56.22 minutes.
Jacob Heidtmann was eliminated the day before despite his personal best time in the run-up.
For Heintz it will be the last Olympic Games in his career.
He was already there in London in 2012 and 2016.
Swimming III:
The German freestyle relay for women over 4 x 200 meters took sixth place.
Isabel Gose, Leonie Kullmann, Marie Pietruschka and Annika Bruhn hit after 7: 53.89 minutes.
The quartet from China secured victory in a world record time of 7: 40.33 minutes.
The USA took silver in 7: 40.73, bronze went to Australia in 7: 41.29.
Corona: In
parallel to the sharply increasing corona numbers in Tokyo, a new daily high of positive cases was also registered at the Olympic Games. A total of 24 other people tested positive around the games. This was announced by the organizers of the games. So many cases have not been recorded in one day since data was recorded on July 1st. There are also three athletes among the positive cases. The organizers do not publish the names of the athletes.
Volleyball:
Brazil's Lucas Saatkamp is an exception. The 35-year-old middle blocker is already noticeable because of his height of 2.09 meters. But he even wears mouth and nose protection in competition. “To be honest, I don't see any difficulty. Exercising with and without a mask is the same thing, so I see no reason not to use it because I know that it can protect not only me but also my colleagues and prevent me from getting the virus again ” , Lucas Saatkamp, who won gold with his team in Rio in 2016, told globo.com.
He was infected with the coronavirus at the end of last year, but had only mild symptoms. Since then, he has kept mouth and nose protection on on the field - also out of consideration and concern for his wife Beatriz and son Theo. In addition to Lucas, who plays in Taubaté, east of São Paulo, club colleague Mauricio Borges in Tokyo also wore mouth and nose protection during the competition.
Judo:
World champion Anna-Maria Wagner made the quarter-finals with ease. After a bye, the Ravensburger defeated the Portuguese Patricia Sampaio through Ippon in her opening fight in the weight class up to 78 kilograms. Wagner, who has already won the Grand Slams in Tel Aviv and Kazan this year, is one of the favorites in the venerable judo temple Nippon Budokan. Karl-Richard Frey is also in the quarter-finals. In his second fight in the weight class up to 100 kilograms, the Leverkusen man defeated Michael Korrel (Netherlands), who was fifth in the World Championship.
Hockey:
Germany's men have to tremble to make it to the quarter-finals. The DHB team conceded the second tournament defeat 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 in order to reach the knockout round on their own. Timm Herzbruch in the eighth 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.
Gymnastics:
Gymnastics superstar Simone Biles from the USA thanked them for the great encouragement after the frank words about their mental health. “The overflowing love and support I received made me realize that I am more than my achievements and gymnastics. I never really believed in that before, ”Biles tweeted. The 24-year-old Biles canceled her start in the individual all-around at the Olympic Games in Tokyo on Wednesday due to mental problems. The day before, the four-time Olympic champion had dropped out of the all-around final.