The German volleyball players lost the game for third place on the seventh day of the World University Games.
Germany lost on Wednesday in the Max-Schmeling-Halle in Berlin in an exciting game with 1: 3 sets (23:25, 25:21, 15:25, 23:25).
Brazil caught the better start in sentence one and had the first set balls at 24:20. The German team was able to ward off three of them, but ultimately drew the loser at 23:25.
Germany took the momentum in set two. Led by Isabel Martin and the strong serves by Pia Timmer, the Germans quickly took the lead and got sentence two safely with 25:23.
Germany oversleep the third round
There was nothing left of the swing in set three. Hardly anything went together in Germany, but a lot in Brazil. The Brazilian block in particular could not be overcome for Germany: Also significant: A service error brought Brazil the clear 25:15 set win.
At the start of the fourth round, the Germans had caught again, so that the set remained balanced until 23:23. However, Brazil had the longer breath, getting the set with 25:23 and thus also the bronze medal.
Bronze medals in judo and taekwondo
In contrast, precious metal for Germany was in judo and Taekwondo. In Judo, Helen Habib from the University of Cologne won the bronze medal in the weight class up to 48 kilograms. In the exhibition hall in Essen, the 20-year-old won the fight for bronze against Zilan Etrem from Turkey.
The German mixed team also bronze in the Taekwondo. Laura Goebel, Kaan Gumus, Jona Pörsch and Supharada Kisskalt in the semi -finals lost 0-2 to the team from Uzbekistan. There is no duel for third place – the second bronze medal went to Kazakhstan. Uzbekistan finally secured the gold medal in the final with a 2-1 win against Egypt.
USA dominates Swimming competitions
27 medals were sold in nine swimming competitions in Berlin on Wednesday. A whopping 13 of them – almost duie half – went to the USA. Team USA won the 4x100m relay in both men and women. Gold also won Maxine Parker over 50 meters of freestyle, Tess Howley over 200 meters butterfly, Matthew King over 50 freestyle, Emma Weber over 100 meters of chest and Daniel Diehl left 200 meters back.
Only the Japanese Takumi Mori over 400 meters and the Portuguese Francisca Saores Martins over 400 meters of freestyle prevented other American gold medals.
Two decisions in table tennis
In the table tennis competition, the decisions in the double competition were made. In the men, Baldwin Cahn and to Kwan Yo from Hong Kong prevailed in the final with 4: 1 sets against Shunsuke Okano and Yuma Tanigaki from Japan. In the women’s celebration and Wang Xiotong won the purely Chinese final against Yiyung Yang and Shang Zhao with 4: 0.
Our sources:
- FISU University Games website
- Livestream of the sports show
