SecondTaekwondo competitor Alexander Bachmann’s gold medal dream, triathlete Laura Lindemann’s disappointment on the track, and German athletes did not shoot accurately enough. On the fourth day of the Tokyo Olympic final, there was no reason to cheer for the German team in the first decision. To this end, Alaska celebrated its first swimming gold medal.
Swim: The only 17-year-old breaststroke player Lydia Jacoby unexpectedly won the Olympic gold medal over 100 meters. The Americans defeated Tatjana Schoenmaker of South Africa and her compatriot, the most popular Lilly King. British Tom Dean won the men’s 200m freestyle championship. Australian Kaylee McKeown won the women’s 100m championship with an Olympic record time of 57.47. In the men’s category, Russian Evgeny Rylow is ahead of Kliment Kolesnikow, also from Russia. From the German point of view, Isabel Goss and Annika Brunn lost in the semifinals of the 200m freestyle.
Taekwondo: Alexander Bachmann lost his first game and had to bury his golden dream. Stuttgart defeated Kazakh Ruslan Shaparo in 7 minutes and 11 seconds in 16 rounds of heavyweight over 80 kg. The 27-year-old player now has to hope that his opponent can make it to the final. Then he should start again in the hope round and still have a chance to win the bronze medal.
Triathlon: Laura Lindeman apparently missed a medal in the end. After a promising start, the third place at the 2020 World Championships crossed the finish line in eighth place, 2:48 minutes behind Bermuda’s first Olympic champion Flora Duffy. The silver medal was British world champion Georgia Taylor Brown, and the bronze medal was American Katie Zafires. The second German starter Annabel Noel from Ingolstadt finished 31st, and the Ukrainian Julia Gelistratova was excluded for alleged doping.
boxing: The heavyweight boxer from Hamburg, Ammar Riad Abduljabbar (Ammar Riad Abduljabbar) has reached the quarter-finals of the Tokyo Olympics. In the 91 kg heavyweight competition, the 25-year-old unanimously defeated the Peruvian Jose Maria Luca James in points. In the quarter-finals, the athlete who emigrated from Iraq to Germany will now face the world and European champion Muslim Gadschimagomedow from Russia on July 30.
shooting: Carina Wimmer and Christian Reitz Mixed with the air pistol in the qualifying round and was eliminated. With 571 rings, the 25-year-old Olympic rookie and experienced Rio Olympic champion won only 12th place in the knockout round-only the best eight teams advanced to the next round. The Chinese team won the first Olympic gold medal in this competition.
Corona: The other two athletes tested positive for the coronavirus. Organizers said that a total of seven new infections were detected before and after the Summer Olympics. Since the start of recording on July 1, the number of game-related positive tests has risen to 155.
BMX: The Dutchman Niek Kimmann had a violent collision with a marshal while training for the Olympic BMX competition. When an official crossed the lane, the medalist was driving at high speed on the second straight road in Tokyo’s Ariake City Sports Park. The crash video has been shared thousands of times on Twitter. “My knee hurts a bit, but I will try my best. I hope the officials are okay,” the former world champion said on Twitter. Kimmann started his first BMX game on Thursday. Participants in Germany have not yet started.
