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The Australian Kaylee McKeown set an Olympic record in the backstroke in Tokyo
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OLI SCARFF / AFP
Several gold medals were handed out in Tokyo early on Tuesday morning.
In the triathlon, a German squinted for a medal until she ran, before Bermuda won gold for the first time.
There was a surprise while surfing.
That was important
A nation with fewer inhabitants has never won a gold medal at the Summer Olympics:
Flora Duffy
from
Bermuda
dominated the running course of
the women's
triathlon
and took the victory safely. The German
Laura Lindemann
was part of the top group until she started running and even seemed to be on the medal course, but then broke down.
The swimmer
Hwang Sun-woo could
also sing a song about the
break
-in
.
The South Korean led
sensationally
in the men's final over the
200 meter freestyle
up to 160 meters, but then had to pay tribute to the high initial pace.
In the last few meters he was passed down to seventh place, the British
Tom Dean
won the gold medal.
A
little later,
Australian
Kaylee McKeown
swam over 100 meters back to the Olympic record and only missed her own world record by two hundredths of a second.
In other respects, too, swimming had one or the other story ready. The
100m breaststroke
won with a 17-year-old
Lydia Jacoby
a young woman from Alaska. And in front of the
100 meters back
, top favorite
Ryan Murphy
(USA) took a provocative amount of time to take off his tracksuit while the opponents were already waiting at the edge of the pool. Murphy then only took bronze, behind the Russians
Evgeny Rylov
and
Kliment Kolesnikov
.
There was another surprise in the water, albeit not in the Tokyo Aquatics Center, but in
surfing
off the coast of Chiba Prefecture in Shidashita Beach
.
The Brazilian superstar
Gabriel Medina
failed in the semifinals
against
the Japanese
Kanoa Igarashi
.
As a two-time world champion, Medina was the top favorite in the premiere competition for surfers at the Olympics.
That will be important
From 10 a.m. the German dressage rider
Isabelle Werth
could
write Olympic history: If she
wins
gold
in the
team competition
, she would be the first rider to win seven Olympic gold medals.
US gymnastics star
Simone Biles
has six medal chances
at these games, the first gold it should be in the
team competition
.
This starts at 12.45 p.m. in the Ariake Gymnastics Center.
The
softball final
between the USA and Japan will take place
in Yokohama at 1 p.m.
It is the opportunity for the Americans to take revenge after they sensationally lost to the Japanese in Beijing in 2008.
The next opportunity for softball gold will not be available until 2028 in Los Angeles; in 2024 in Paris, the sport is not part of the program.
In the afternoon, the German tennis doubles
Alexander Zverev and Jan-Lennard Struff will
meet the French duo Jeremy Chardy / Gaël Monfils.
However, rains endanger the daily tennis program, the exact start time has not yet been determined.
In the event of a win, Zverev / Struff would be in the quarter-finals - and would have a good chance of winning a medal: Four of the eight seeded pairs were eliminated in the first round.
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