DThe team won the German championship in just six months: the experienced Chantal Raul and the young Sarah Schultz quickly won the national beach volleyball championship.The fourth-placed duo defeated the most popular national team in the final at Timmendorfer Strand on Saturday night. Carla Borg And Julia Sude 2:0 (21:17, 21:19). “We are the German champions”, the laborer cheered and buried her partner in the sand in front of 3,500 fans.
The 31-year-old worker thus defended the national championship she won with Sandra Ittlinger the previous year. In general, this is the third title for medical students. In 2017, she won with Su De, this time her last opponent.
For the first time in the 30-year history of the championship, the final was held in a night race under floodlights. European third place Borg/Sude (Stuttgart/Friedrichshafen) opened the future of United Sports after the disappointing Tokyo Olympic preliminaries. They once again equalized the score, but nothing more. “It really started,” Schultz said, stunned after the Baltic wind race.
Kim Behrens and Sandra Ittlinger (Stuttgart/Berlin) defeated Christine Aulenbrock and Sandra Ferger (Oythe) 2:1 (17:21, 21:15, 15:9) and finished third.
Laboreur and 22-year-old Schulz are the champions, and they only formed a duo in March this year.
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And the national team from Hamburg includes outstanding athletes Laura LudwigHaving lost in the quarter-finals with Leonie Körzinger, he was eliminated early, and Labor/Schultz was completely awake at the critical moment. Coach Tobias Rex confirmed that the young Schultz has made great progress and the labor has found her pleasure again. On the way to the final, they have eliminated the national team’s Victoria Bineck and Isabel Schneider. For the 30-year-old Bineck, this was the last game as a professional player, and she ended her career.
In the men’s competition, the deputy world champions Julius Thor and Clemens Wikler were unstoppable on their way to a third national championship. The German No. 1 clearly defeated the underdogs Simon Kurzer and Mom Lorenz (Munich/Kiel) 2-0 (21:13, 21:15) in the quarter-finals. In the semi-finals on Sunday, the Hamburg national team will face Philip Bergman and Yannick Harms (Hamburg). In the second semifinal, Alexander Walkenhorst and Sven Winter (Düsseldorf) played against the unexpected Benedict and Jonas Sagerstedt (Unterhaching).
