secondAla Kohler was unable to celebrate her second medal after the coup at the Olympic premiere. Three days after winning the bronze medal in the 1500m freestyle for the first time, the 27-year-old won seventh place in the 800m freestyle in Tokyo on Saturday with a time of 8:24.56 minutes.Americans become Olympic champions Katie LedkeyThis is Ledkey’s seventh Olympic victory. It is ahead of the two-time Tokyo Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus from Australia. The bronze medal is Simona Quadarella, the 1500m world champion from Italy.
“I myself was a bit speechless at 8:24,” Kohler said immediately after the game. Acute respiratory disease“Somehow, it doesn’t want to be what it is today. Now others have seized the opportunity, I missed my opportunity.” Her German record is 8:16.43 minutes.
“Quite disappointed”
The day before the double world championship finale Florian Willbrook In the 1500m freestyle competition, his fiancé did not enter the competition and fell behind very early. “After 600 meters at the latest, I found that I could not get there,” Kohler said, taking into account time to admit: “I am disappointed that I am so slow now.”
Before the Kohler game, there were already two decisions without the participation of the Germans. American player Caleb Drexel led Hungary’s Christoph Milak to win the 100-meter butterfly championship with a world record time of 49.45 seconds. Kelly McKeon, a swimmer from Australia, won the gold medal over 200 meters.
The medley relay from England set another swimming world record. Kathleen Dawson, Adam Peaty, James Guy and Freya Anderson completed the 4 x 100m medley with 3 points and 37.58 points at the Olympic premiere on Saturday. At the Tokyo Olympics, this was the fifth world record for pool swimming, two of which were singles and three were relays. The silver medal went to China, and the bronze medal went to Australia. The German team consisting of Marek Ulrich, Fabian Schwingenschlögl, Lisa Höpink and Annika Bruhn was eliminated in the preliminary round.
Before the last day of the pool swimmers competition this Sunday, the German Swimming Association won Koehler’s medal in its account after zero numbers at the Rio 2016 Olympics and 2012 London Olympics. As a world champion over 1500 meters, Wellbrock is one of the gold medal candidates there. DSV has more opportunities in the open water competition over ten kilometers in the second week. In addition to Wellbrock, Rob Muffels, Finnia Wunram and Leonie Beck are also starting.
Kohler, who won the gold medal in the open water relay at the 2019 World Cup in South Korea, is no longer there. The residents of Frankfurt left the Tokyo Olympic Games with satisfaction. She herself realized her “childhood dream” at the Summer Olympics, and Kohler made herself the first German player to win a medal since Britta Steffen. Stephen has won two gold medals in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Whether Japan can win the gold medal again depends on Wellbrock. This will be the first gold medal for a German swimmer since Michael Groß 33 years ago. At that time, Uwe Daßler also won the gold medal for East Germany.
