Hassan's first strike - two golden for Germany - Pudenz defies the rain - Olympic Games

Beach volleyball: Thole / winder in the quarterfinals

The Beach Volleyball Vice World Champion Julius Thole and Clemens Wickler stand in their first Olympics in the quarterfinals. The duo from Hamburg won his eighth final against the Americans Jacob Gibb and Tri Bourne on Monday evening (local time) 2: 1 (17:21, 21:15, 15:11). In the round of the best four, on Wednesday (15.00 o'clock / mesz), a new edition of the World Cup final of two years ago in Hamburg, when Thole / Wickler were inferior to the Russian Wyacheslaw Krasilnikow and Oleg Stojanowski just under 1: 2. Even Olympic champion Laura Ludwig and their partner Margareta Kozuch are under the best eight in Tokyo.

+++ Athletics: Hassan celebrates first gold +++

The Dutch runner Sifan Hassan won gold over 5,000 meters. The 28-year-old sat down in 14: 36.79 minutes before the Kenyan world champion Hellen Obiri (14: 38.36), bronze went to the Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay (14: 38.87). Thus, the first of its three targeted triumphen managed - Hassan also pages gold over 1500 and 10,000 meters.

+++ Athletics: Pudenz surprised with silver in the discus +++

Discusser Kristin Pudenz from Potsdam has surprisingly won silver at the Olympics in Tokyo. The 28-year-old landed on Monday with the personal best of 66.86 meters in the fifth attempt in second place. It was the first medal for the German athletes in Tokyo. Pudenz also gave the German discussors the first medal since the gold litter of Ilke Wyludda 1996 in Atlanta. Olympic champion in competition affected by one-hour rain break was the American Valarie Allman (68.98). The Leverkusenin Marike Steinacker was eighth at 62.02 meters. Claudine Vita from Neubrandenburg missed the final fight of the best eight discussers as ninth (61.80 meters).

+++ Badminton: Axelson breaks through Chinese dominance +++

The Dane Viktor Axelsen has broken the Chinese dominance in single and crowned himself to the second Badminton Olympic champion of his country. The World Champion of 2017 sat down in the final of Tokyo against Chen Long, gold medalist of Rio, 21:15, 21:12. Axelsen (27) is after today's Ioc member Poul-Erik Hoyer Larsen (Denmark / 1996) the second European Olympic champion in the Asian dominated sport. Most recently, Chinese had won four of the last five gold medals: Lin Dan dominated in London 2012 and Beijing in 2008, Ji Xinpeng had triumphed in Sydney 2000. Badminton has since summer playing in 1992 in Barcelona Olympic, German players have not won a medal yet. In Tokyo, all athletes and athletes of the German Badminton Association (DBV) separated in the preliminary round.

+++ Athletics: El Bakkali breaks Kenya series +++

The Moroccan Soufiane El Bakkali ended the Kenyan running dominance over 3000 meters of obstacle. The fourth of Rio de Janeiro 2016 triumphed after a self-reliable final spurt in 8: 08.90 minutes. Since 1984, the Kenyans had always won gold at this distance, 1976 and 1980 they boycotted the games. Best runner from the East African country was Benjamin Kigel (8: 11.45) as third parties. Silver went to the world-year best Lamecha Girma from Ethiopia in 8: 10.38 minutes. The 25-year-old El Bakkali was World Cup-second 2017 and World Cup Third, 2019 and completed only two races in this season before his Olympic victory.

+++ versatility: Krajewski gets the first woman Gold +++

Versatility Rider Julia Krajewski has won gold in the Olympic Games in Tokyo as the first wife gold in the individual standings. The 32-year-old from Warendorf remained in the final jumping on the Mare Amande de B'Neville without dropping. With a total of 26.00 penalty points, she sat down in front of the British Tom McEwen on Toledo de Kerser (29-30) and the Australian Andrew Hoy with Vassiliy de Lassos (29,60). Michael Jung (Horb), who had won in London and 2016 in Rio Gold in singles, took the eighth place with Chipmunk (36-10). In the team ranking, the German Equipe had previously stayed in fourth place behind the UK, Australia and France without a medal. The German versatility riders collected a single medal successively at the fourth Olympic games. In Beijing Triumphant in 2008 Hinrich Romeike, 2012 in London and four years later in Rio won Michael Jung Gold. In London, Sandra also bronze bronze.

+++ Ring: Golden career closure for Rotter fox +++

Aline Rotter fox has written history: As the first German ringer she won an Olympic medal - and then gold. In the final of the weight class up to 76 kilograms she sat down on Monday with 7: 3 against the American Adeline Gray. For the 34-year-old, it was the last competition of her career. The former world champion finished her career after the Olympic Games.

+++ Athletics: Hurdendropper Krafzik fails in the semifinals +++

Carolina Krafzik missed the first collection of a German hurdle runner in an Olympic final over 400 meters for a quarter of a century. The German champion from Sindelfingen was fourth in their semi-finals in pouring rain in 54.96 seconds and thus missed the demanded place among the best two. The 26-year-old was also not one of the other two most timers. In the lead was Krafzik with 54.74 seconds as fast as no Germans have run since Ulrike Urbansky in 2000. Last DLV starters in an Olympic final were Heike Meißner (fifth) and Silvia Rieger (eighth) in 1996 in Atlanta.

As the fastest in the final on Wednesday (4.30 am MESZ), world recorder Sydney McLaughlin (USA) occupied in 53.03 seconds.

+++ Ring: Lopez now Successful Olympic Ringer +++

The Cuban Mijain Lopez Nunez has won four Olympic gold medals as the first male ring. The 38-year-old defeated in the final in the weight class up to 130 kilograms on Monday the Georgian Jakobi Kaja with 5: 0. Already at the Games 2008, 2012 and 2016, the almost two meters had triumphed exceptional athlete. He became a world champion five times. Actually, the Greek-Roman specialist had already finished his career, after relocating the games in Japan, he did further. At the opening ceremony of this year's events, he carried the flag for his home country for the third time.

+++ World record due? Thompson-Herah outlines over 200 meters +++

Elaine Thompson-Herah, who has already won over 100 meters of gold, has laid a fabulous time in the semifinals over the 200 meters - though they even brooded towards the end of the barrel. Their 21.66 seconds are not far behind the world record set by Florence Griffith Joyner 1988 - which could be endangered in the final when Thompson-Hermah runs through.

I would take a season ticket. I want to experience that even more often.

The German Sprinterin Lisa Marie Kwayie about the experience Olympia

+++ gymnastics: South Korean Shin Olympic champion in jump +++

Jeahwan Shin from South Korea has won the decision in the leap in the men at the Olympics in Tokyo. The 23-year-old Olympic champion received the average grade of 14.783 points on Monday in the Ariak Gymnastics Center for its two jumps. Due to the higher difficulty in one of his jumps, he referred to the dots of Denis Abliasin in two rank two. The bronze medal secured the Armenian Artur Dawtjan with 14.733 points. Five years ago in Rio de Janeiro, the North Korean Se-Gwang Ri had brought himself the Olympicieg. German Turner did not qualify for the final of the best eight.

+++ gymnastics: Carey follows on the floor on Biles +++

Jade Carey from the United States has won in the absence of Rio-Olympia champion Simone Biles at the Olympic Games in Tokyo Gold at the turn-decision on the ground. The multi-fight eighth was rated for her exercise on Monday in the Ariak Gymnastics Center from the ramparts with 14.366 points. Thus she referred the Italian Vanessa Ferrari with 14,200 meters in second place. The same third third parties were Murakami from Japan and Angelina Melnikova from the team of the Russian Olympic Committee, each with 14,166 meters. Simone Biles had dispensed with a start due to mental problems. German gymnasts had not qualified for the final of the best eight.

+++ Ring: Schell after quarterfinal defeat outside +++

Anna Schell has left in the quarterfinals. The athlete from the SC Isaria Unterföhring conceded an ex-world champion Alla Cherkasowa from Ukraine in the weight class up to 68 kilograms on Monday a school leap. Since Cherkassowa then lost against the top-set American Tamyra Mensah-Stock, Schell was no longer allowed to fight bronze in the Hopelung Round. Once again: In the early afternoon, the Krefelderin Aline Rotter fakes in the class up to 76 kilograms against the top-set American Adeline Gray around Gold. Currently you can track the events in the live ticker.

+++ Riding: Versatility team climbs in fourth place +++

For a medal, after the events of the weekend, it was no longer quite enough, fourth place for the German Equipe of the versatility riders around Michael Jung (Horb) with Chipmunk, Sandra Playing (Ganderkesee) with Viamant du Matz and Julia Krajewski (Warendorf) Amande de B'Neville in Tokyo. Gold went to Great Britain from Australia and France. The chances of a team medal had reduced a minimum in the terrain test on Sunday. After a post-member (20 penalty points) of finish and an obstacle error (11 penalty points) of young, who had led to the dressage after the dressage, the German Equipe went only to jump in rank six.

+++ Sprinterin Timanovskaya asks Poland for Visa +++

The Belarussian Olympic Sprinterin Kristina Timanowskaja asks for media reports in the Polish Embassy in Tokyo for asylum. The athlete, who should be kidnapped by the authoritarian authorities of their country from Japan after assessment of the opposition, met then on Monday in Poland's representation in Tokyo. Previously, the Czech Republic also offered Poland of 24-year-old asylum. Timanowskaja should fly to the reports on Wednesday from Tokyo to Warsaw. Timanovskaya had explained in a video that published the oppositional Belarusian athlete representative Belarusian Sport Solidarity Foundation (BSSF) on Sunday, she should have been flown out of Japan against her will. Reason was public criticism of Belarussian sports officials. The Sprinterin had denied the flight, turned to the Japanese police and then spent the night in a hotel at the Tokyte Airport Haneda. According to the international Olympic Committee, it is in a "secure environment". Poland Bot Timanowskaya on Sunday evening a humanitarian visa. His country is ready to help, wrote Vice-Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz on Twitter. "She has the free choice to continue its sporty career in Poland if she decides for it," the politician continued to lead.

+++ Railroad: Friedrich / Hinze just beaten - silver +++

Lea-Sophie Friedrich (Dassow) and Emma Hinze (Cottbus) have just lost the Olympic Final in the Teamsprint against the Chinese Duo Zhong Tianshi and Training Bao Shanju and won silver.

+++ gymnastics: US superstar bile starts at the hover beam +++

Turn-Superstar Simone Biles will go back to the Olympic Games in Tokyo. The 24-year-old confirmed on Monday to participate in the hoverbar final this Tuesday. "We are very pleased that we can tell that tomorrow we will see two US athletes in the final on the hoverbone - Sunisa Lee and Simone Biles," wrote the US Turnover Association on Twitter. The floating bar final is only the second appearance of Biles in the games in Tokyo. Previously, the four-time Olympic champion from Rio de Janeiro had dispensed with mental problems on the decisions in multi-fight, on the ground, the step bar and in jump. The team competition had broken the 19-time world champion after only one device and then publicly made their mental problems.

+++ Waterpring: Banner holder Hausding fails in advance +++

The Olympic career of Patrick Hausding has finished earlier than expected. The Watersprung Recordenuropamister was surprisingly different on Monday in Tokyo in the advance of the three-meter board. 364.05 points were not enough for the semi-finals on Tuesday. In Rio de Janeiro, houseding had still won the bronze medal in this discipline. For sure, the Dresdner Martin Wolfram came with 444.50 points. Banderestest was the Chinese Wang Zongyuan with 531.30 meters. Flag's owner houseding was allowed to look forward to the bronze medal in the synchronous jump from the three-meter-board in Tokyo before the failed chance of Monday together with Lars Rüdiger. Overall, three Olympic medals are in his balance sheet. For the Berliner these summer games were the fourth and last. Whether he participates in the next year at the World Cup is open.

Patrick Hausding Imago Images / Agencia EFE

+++ Double win for China's gymnasts on the rings +++

China's Turner celebrated a double victory on the rings in Tokyo. The 27-year-old Liu Yang won on Monday in the Ariak Gymnastics Center Gold with 15.500 points before his two years older Landsmann You Hao, whose exercise was rated with 15,300 meters. The Greek Eleftherios Petrounias, Olympic champion 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, was with 15,200 points of third parties. German Turner did not qualify for the final.

+++ Railroad: Friedrich / Hinze driving around Gold +++

The German railway world champions Lea-Sophie Friedrich (Dassow) and Emma Hinze (Cottbus) reached the Olympic Final in the Teamsprint and thus already silver safely. The duo qualified in the lead against the Ukrainians Ljubow Bassowa / Olena Starykowain in the German record time of 31.905 seconds for the race for gold (11.09 clock CEST). Opponents are there the Chinese women who set up a world record with Olympic champion Zhong Tianshi and their tributor Bao Shanju in 31.804 seconds.

+++ Bahnrad: Fours of the women drives world record +++

Deutsche Bahn-Fourser of the women has already taken care of in the qualification of team tracking at the Olympic Games in Tokyo for a bang: Lisa Klein, Mieke Kröger, Lisa Brennauer and Franziska Brickßen presented a new world record.

+++ shoot: Reitz missed noble metal +++

Richristian Reitz has not been able to prevent the medal cutting of the German sport shooters. The Quick Fire Specialist came over the 25-meter distance in the last shooting competition of the games only rank five. Gold with Olympic Record brought the Frenchman Jean Quiquampoix, silver went to the Cuban Leuris Pupo. The Chinese Yuehong Li won the bronze medal. For the German Schützenbund there was only a single medal in Tokyo with bronze through the archers.

The German medal winners of Tokyo

+++ Sailing: too little wind ensures cancellation +++

Too weak winds have led to the cancellation of the Olympic sail races on Monday before Enoshima. Affected there were also the medal races of the 49er FX of women with Tina Lutz and Susann Beucke (Holzhausen / Strande) and the 49er of the men with Erik Heil and Thomas Plößel (Kiel / Hamburg). The two German crews lie in the fight for precious metal in their classes in a promising position. The decisive races should be made up according to the organizers on Tuesday.

+++ shoot: Reitz with best value in the final +++

Rio Olympic champion Christian Reitz has reached the Olympic Final with the Quick Fire Pistol. The second part of the two-day qualifications of the 34-year-old police collaborator from Regensburg, who goes to the start of SV Kriftel, on Monday in place with 291 rings. Thus he climbed with 587 overall rings in the qualification of third place in place.

Club college Oliver Geis missed the final of the best six as in Rio 2016. He came only to rank 13. The final competition starts at 7.30 am.

+++ rings: shell loses quarterfinals +++

Ringerin Anna Schell has excreted quarterfinals and hope for bronze. One day before her 28th birthday, the athlete defeated from the SC Isaria Unterföhring first in the second round of the weight up to 68 kilograms the Egyptian Enas Ahmed with 7: 0. The next opponent of the World Cup third of 2019 was ex-world champion Alla Cherkassova from Ukraine, but against the Schell, however, significantly with 0: 6 lost.

At the Japanese evening (from 13.55 clock mesz), the Krefelderin Aline Rotter fox wrestles in the class up to 76 kilograms against the top-set American Adeline Gray around Gold. With their final collection, the World Champion from 2014 on Sunday for the first German Olympia medal in women's rings had gained at all.

+++ tentoglu wins in the long jump dramatic +++

No 24 hours after the Olympic high jump ended the long-jump final dramatic. Only in the sixth and last attempt was the Greek European champion Miltiadis Tentoglou, which was fourth, fourth, to 8.41 m and thus equalized the width of the Cuban Juan Miguel Echevarria's leading since the third pass. Due to the better second attempt, the Greek ultimately secured the Olympic valley.

+++ Athletics: Kwayie over the 200 m in semifinals +++

Lisa Marie Kwayie from Berlin-Neukölln is sprained in the semifinals over the 200 meters in the Olympic Games in Tokyo. The 24-year-old supernatant in 23.14 seconds as fourth their lead. She was one of the three timeposts on Monday. The Mannheimerin Jessica-Bianca Wessolly (23.41) did not continue. The best time in the preliminary runs was the only 18-year-old Christine Mboma. The sprinter from Namibia set up a U-20 world record in 22.11 seconds.

Also in the semifinals are the gold coils Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and 2016 Olympic Champion Elaine Thompson-Herah from Jamaica and Shaunae Miller-Uibo from the Bahamas. Thompson-Hermah has already won the 100 meters in Tokyo.

+++ Athletics, 1500 m: Hassan crashes and wins +++

The Dutch top runner Sifan Hassan has delivered a demonstration of its extraordinary can. In the lead over the 1500 m on Monday morning, the world champion, which was known as she was known at the end of the field, rushed at the beginning of the last round. But Hassan got up and won at the end, despite around 50 meters of residue even in 4: 05.17 minutes and thus reached the semi-final on Wednesday (12.00 pm Mesz).

Caterina Granz (Berlin) slipped as a ninth of her flow in 4: 06,22 just as one of the six most times-speedest in the semifinals, the German master Hanna Klein (Tübingen) ripped as the last of her lead.

Sovereign in the semifinals: the duo Brendel / Hecker. Getty Images

+++ Canoe: Brendel / Hecker confidently in the semifinals +++

Kanu-Ass Sebastian Brendel and Olympic debutant Tim Hecker underlined their title ambitions at the CANadier-two. Thanks to a strong final lane on Monday, the German duo won his lead over 1000 meters and qualified directly for the semi-finals on Tuesday (2.44 o'clock). Brendel / Hecker are considered one of several gold hopes among the German racing paddlers. In Hungarian Szeged, both celebrated the first World Cup victory in this constellation in May.

The German Canoe Association wants to build in Tokyo to the great successes from Rio de Janeiro five years ago. At that time, the paddlers brought four times gold and a total of seven podium places - the strongest Olympic yield since Athens 2004.

+++ Weather Capriols: Only big heat, then thunderstorms? +++

Monday, Monday surprised the Olympic athletes with great heat early in the morning. At 9 o'clock local time it already had a whopping 35 degrees in the shade. For lunch and afternoon then with partly violent thunderstorms is expected.

+++ Beach volleyball: Ludwig / Kozuch now against US duo +++

Laura Ludwig and Margareta Kozuch meet in the quarterfinals on the US duo April Ross / Alix Klineman. The Americans turned on Monday their eighth place against Lidianny Echevarria Benitez / Leila Consuelo Martinez Ortega from Cuba with 2: 0 (21:17, 21:15).

Ludwig / Kozuch were followed by a 2-1 (21:19, 19:21, 16:14) against the Brazilians Agatha Bednarczuk and Eduarda Santos Lisboa in the lap of the last eight. The quarterfinal will take place on Tuesday.

Now against a US duo: Laura Ludwig and Margareta Kozuch (re.). Imago Images

+++ After gold: ZVEREV is considering short tournament break +++

Olympic champion Alexander Zverev is considering taking a short tournament break after his gold coup. "I usually have to fly to Canada. I do not know if I will do that," said the best German tennis player after his final success during the summer games. "I may take me one, two weeks time and maybe make a few tournaments fail. That's a special moment for me. But with the US Open I'm back." Already on Monday is the return flight to the home.

The ATP tour continues in North America, in the coming week begins a Masters 1000 event in the Canadian Toronto. The US Open as the last grand SLAM tournament of the tennis season go on 30th August.

+++ Spearwurf: Vetter makes science worries +++

The German spearwurf-Star Johannes Vetter fears a "performance bend" in the coming years because of the restrictions of the Corona Pandemic. "The clubs have lost members and a lot of revenues. This meets the young athletes and those who wanted to take the step into the world top," said the 28-year-old in the interview of the "Rheinische Post" (Monday). "We could train cadres athletes, the others have benefited only late from this derogation. I believe that there could be a performance bend over the next few years. We have to counteract that now."

The World Champion of 2017 goes as a pota preference in the spear competition at the Olympics in Tokyo. The qualification starts this Wednesday (3.05 clock CEST).

+++ Cathoming: Schenk dares a lot to +++

Christian Schenk, Olympic Champion of 1988, trust the Mainz Tenkäbsfer Niklas Kaul to compete his succession with the Tokyo games. "As a world champion, he has already shown its size. Now it is important to implement his very good techniques in the ten disciplines in speed, strength and endurance," said Schenk of the German Press Agency. He trained at his time after the motto: competition is the retrieving of movement patterns in stressful situations. "I think it's his biggest strength in it." However, after the long pandemic break, there is a uncertainty for the 23-year-old Kaul. "Maybe his physina will not be enough, because the last two years of hard work were unfortunately interrupted by an infringement: Nevertheless, I believe his mental power and slit pipe will help him." The two-day Olympic ten-fight starts on Tuesday. ## Water, air, sand and dummer jubilation