Olympia today - day eleven: That happened tonight and that is yet to come

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Sebastian Brendel and Tim Hecker won Olympic bronze

Photo: LUIS ACOSTA / AFP

A lot of entertainment was on offer in Tokyo's Olympic Stadium: a spectacular German gold medal in the long jump pit, followed by a new world record for hurdlers, which not only improved the old record, but pulverized it.

And: There are more exciting decisions to be made - not just in athletics.

That was important

Long jump

world champion

Malaika Mihambo

crowned her career with Olympic gold. A set of 7.00 meters in the sixth and last attempt helped the 27-year-old jump from third to first place - even though Mihambo gave away 19.5 centimeters when jumping. It is the first gold medal of the Games for the German Athletics Association.

What was also impressive was what the Norwegian

Karsten Warholm

delivered: He was considered the favorite over the

400 meter hurdles.

But the time that Warholm ultimately brought gold made even his favorite victory a sensation: Warholm needed 45.94 seconds, 76 hundredths less than his own world record. In a race that set standards, the American Rai Benjamin also stayed below the old world record and won silver in 46.17 seconds.

Among the canoeists, “Mr.

Canadier «

Sebastian Brendel

in two with

Tim Hecker

missed the fourth Olympic victory of his career over 1000 meters, but won bronze.

The boats from Cuba and China landed before the Germans.

In the kayak single,

Jacob Schopf

narrowly missed

a medal, finishing fourth over the 1000 meters.

The sailors

Tina Lutz

and

Susann Beucke managed to

improve to the silver rank with fifth place in the final medal race of the 49er FX in the overall standings.

The sailors had to wait 21 years for such a medal: Most recently, Amelie Lux also took second place in Sydney in 2000, back then in windsurfing.

The German basketball players

have clearly lost their quarter-final game.

European champion Slovenia with NBA star Luka Dončić, who excelled above all as a passer, gave Henrik Rödl's team no chance.

In the end it was 70:94 from a German point of view.

Wrestlers

Frank Stäbler

and

Denis Kudla

also

suffered

a defeat in their respective weight classes in the quarterfinals.

However, both still have the chance of a bronze medal via the hope round.

After

beach volleyball

gold in Rio 2016,

Laura Ludwig

will go home

empty-handed this year.

With

Margareta Kozuch

, Ludwig's partner on the sand since 2019, the German flag bearer fought a balanced quarter-final duel with the US vice world champions Alix Klineman and April Ross.

The favored US duo made their points more consistently, especially towards the end of the sets, Ludwig / Kozuch lost 0: 2 (19:21, 19:21).

That will be important

Four choices are still standing today in the

Athletics

to: At 12.20 pm, the start

pole vault competition of the men

.

With Bo Kanda Lita Baehre and Oleg Zernikel, two Germans have also qualified for the final fight, in which three athletes, Armand Duplantis (Sweden), KC Lightfoot (USA) and Renaud Lavillenie (France), who are already six this year, also compete - have crossed the meter mark.

The decisions for the women in the

hammer throw

(from 1:35 p.m.), over the

800 meters

(2:25 p.m.) and

200 meters

(2:50 p.m.) all take place without German participation.

Lukas Dauser

does gymnastics

in the

bars

finals

from 10 a.m.

, so he can use his parade machine.

A medal is not likely, but possible.

The

semi-finals of

the men's

Olympic

football tournament

will take place today: Mexico and Brazil will meet at 10 a.m., and Japan will play Spain at 1 p.m.

The German handball

men will fight for the semi-finals from 1:45 p.m.

The opponent in the Yoyogi National Stadium is Egypt.

The German hockey men

are already about to make it to the finals

.

Your semi-final against Australia will kick off at 12 noon.

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