Sarah Köhler was unable to celebrate her second medal after her coup at an Olympic premiere.

Three days after bronze in the 1500 meter freestyle, which was held for the first time, the 27-year-old hit the 800 meter freestyle on Saturday in Tokyo after 8: 24.56 minutes in seventh place.

The American Katie Ledecky became Olympic champion.

It was Ledecky's seventh Olympic victory.

It won ahead of the two-time Tokyo Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus from Australia.

Bronze went to the 1500 meter world champion Simona Quadarella from Italy.

“I'm a bit speechless myself about an 8:24,” said Köhler immediately after the race on ARD.

“Somehow it didn't want to be today.

Now others have taken their chance and I missed mine. ”Her German record is 8: 16.43 minutes.

"Quite a disappointment"

One day before the grand finale of double world champion Florian Wellbrock in the 1500 meter freestyle, his fiancée did not get into the race and was well behind quite early.

"After 600 meters at the latest, I noticed that I couldn't get there," said Köhler and admitted with a view to the time: "That I'm so slow now is quite a disappointment for me."

Before the Köhler race, there were already two decisions without German participation.

The American Caeleb Dressel won the 100 meter butterfly in a world record time of 49.45 seconds ahead of the Hungarian Kristof Milak.

Back swimmer Kaylee McKeown from Australia won gold over 200 meters.

The mixed medley relay from Great Britain set another world record in swimming.

Kathleen Dawson, Adam Peaty, James Guy and Freya Anderson hit the 4 x 100 meter mixed medley at the Olympic premiere on Saturday after 3: 37.58 minutes.

At the games in Tokyo it was the fifth world record in pool swimming, two of them in singles and three in relays.

Silver went to China, bronze went to Australia.

The German team with Marek Ulrich, Fabian Schwingenschlögl, Lisa Höpink and Annika Bruhn was eliminated in the preliminary run.

Before the last day of the pool swimmer's competition on this Sunday, the German Swimming Association has a medal from Köhler in its account after the zero numbers in Rio 2016 and London 2012. As world champion over 1500 meters, Wellbrock is one of the gold candidates there. There are further opportunities for the DSV in the second week of competition in the open water races over ten kilometers. In addition to Wellbrock, Rob Muffels, Finnia Wunram and Leonie Beck are at the start.

Köhler, who won gold with the open water relay at the 2019 World Cup in South Korea, is no longer there.

The Frankfurt resident leaves the Olympic Games in Tokyo satisfied.

She herself fulfilled a “childhood dream” at the Summer Games, and Köhler immortalized herself as the first German medalist in the pool since Britta Steffen.

Steffen had won gold twice at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

Whether there will be a gold medal in Japan again depends on Wellbrock.

It would be the first gold medal for a German swimmer since Michael Groß 33 years ago.

At that time, Uwe Daßler also won gold for the GDR.