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Decathlete Niklas Kaul in the long jump
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ANDREJ ISAKOVIC / AFP
The records tumble on the running tracks in Tokyo: Similar to the day before, when the Norwegian Karsten Warholm set a fabulous world record over the 400 meter hurdles, the Olympic Stadium had a historically fast final race to offer.
Later in the day there are the wrestling medal fights - and even more running decisions for the sprinters and the middle distance.
That was important
Gold favorite
Johannes Vetter
qualified for the
javelin
final
on Saturday, but made it more exciting than expected. The world's best of the year, who throws more than 90 meters on good days, failed with the first two attempts at the required qualifying distance of 83.50 meters. Only in the third and last litter did Vetter reach a solid 85.64 meters. Julian Weber is also qualified, Bernhard Seifert did not reach the final.
The final of the women over
400 meter hurdles
was in no way inferior to the sensational race of the men from the previous day: The American
Sydney McLaughlin
improved her own world record by 44 hundredths to 51.46 seconds.
Behind the new Olympic champion, compatriot Dalilah Muhammad stayed on the silver rank, also below the old world record, while the Dutch woman Femke Bol came in third.
Skateboarder
Lilly Stoephasius
, Germany's youngest Olympian at the age of 14, just missed the final in the park discipline.
38.37 points were enough for Stoephasius for a good ninth place, the best eight qualified for the final round.
The victory went to Japan's skateboard star Sakura Yosozumi.
As
expected, the
German
table tennis
women lost to China in the semi-finals of the team competition. Xiaona Shan, Petrissa Solja and Han Ying stayed on the plate without a chance against the leading table tennis nation and lost 0: 3. On Thursday (4 a.m.) the game for third place against Hong Kong is about bronze.
In the all-around competitions, the German medal hopes got off to a solid start: In
the men's
decathlon
, world champion
Niklas Kaul
is only 17th after a 100-meter run, long jump and shot put, but he showed achievements in the area of his personal possibilities.
Kaul's strongest disciplines follow on the second day of the competition, with fellow favorite Damian Warner from Canada.
In the
heptathlon
, the former vice world champion Carolin Schäfer is in tenth place after the first two disciplines, hurdles and high jump.
It is led by the Belgian Olympic champion from Rio, Nafissatou Thiam.
That will be important
The German
wrestlers have
two chances for a medal
:
Frank Stäbler
secured his fight for bronze in the class up to 67 kilograms over the round of hope. The opponent of the three-time world champion is the Georgian Ramaz Zoidze at 12.30 p.m.
Denis Kudla
can repeat his third place from Rio 2016 in the class up to 87 kilograms, his opponent from 1 p.m. is the Egyptian Mohamed Metwally.
Several athletics decisions are made in the afternoon. The only German medal chance of doing
Gesa Krause
: About
3000 meter steeplechase
at Krause occurs, at world championships twice with bronze on their parade route decorated, from 13 hours including against world champion Beatrice Chepkoech (Kenya). The American Emma Coburn and the fastest leader Winfred Mutile Yavi from Bahrain also have a chance of victory.
Then it’s first for the
hammer throwers
(1:15 p.m.), then for the medium-distance runners over the
800 meters
(2:05 p.m.) for medals.
Finally, the fastest man over the 200 meters is sought: World champion
Noah Lyles
(USA) and his Canadian challenger
Andre De Grasse
will be in focus from 2:55 p.m.
The
quarter-finals are on the program
for the German
beach volleyball
duo
Julius Thole / Clemens Wickler
.
The opponents are Wiatscheslaw Krasilnikow and Oleg Stoyanowski from Russia, to whom Thole / Wickler were defeated 1: 2 in the 2019 World Cup final.
The chance for a rematch is from 2 p.m.
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