On the 9th day of the European Championships, the German canoeists ensured a flood of medals. Despite participating in eight finals, the track and field athletes remained without a medal.
Canoe – 4x gold, silver and bronze
At the start of the canoe medal competition, the Germans really cleaned up. The canoeists and paracanoeists won four gold medals, one silver and one bronze on the regatta course in Oberschleißheim.
The kayak four made the golden start over 1000 meters. The German quartet with two-time Olympic champion Tom Liebscher, Martin Hiller, Felix Frank and Tobias Schultz prevailed in front of Spain and Hungary.
Then the German canoe dominator Sebastian Brendel followed up with Tim Hecker in two canoes. The duo from Potsdam and Berlin not only defended the European title, but also celebrated the next coup after winning the World Cup two weeks ago in Canada. Afterwards, Jacob Schopf from Berlin triumphed in the kayak single over 500m.
The paracanoes provided the crowning glory of a golden day. Lillemor Köper won the VL1 class ahead of her teammate Esther Bode. Bronze in class VL2 went to Katharina Bauernschmidt.
Beach volleyball – Ehlers/Wickler in the quarterfinals of the European Championship
Nils Ehlers and Clemens Wickler made it to the quarter-finals of the Beach Volleyball Championships by beating the Austrian duo Marco Krattiger/Florian Breer. The second set developed into an intense beach thriller, which the Germans finally won 32:30.
On the other hand, the women’s duo around Karla Borger and Julia Sude was eliminated. The two lost 0:2 (18:21, 18:21) against the 2019 European champions, Tina Graudina/Anastasija Kravcenoka from Latvia.
Mountain bike – Germans in Pidcock victory without a medal
When Thomas Pidcock from the UK won the cross-country race, there were no medals for the German starters. Luca Schwarzbauer kept up well for a long time and ended up tenth as the best German. David List was 13th, Julian Schelb 21st. Maximilian Brandl was 28th after a good start, Georg Egger 31st and Niklas Schel 55th.
Table tennis – precious metal already secured: three Germans in the semi-finals
After the disappointing performance in the table tennis doubles, the Germans really got going in the singles. Three German women have reached the semi-finals. And because there is no match for third place in table tennis, Sabine Winter, Nina Mittelham and Shan Xiaona are sure to win a medal.
Timo Boll made short work of the men’s round of 16 and won 4:0 (13:11, 11:3, 11:1, 11:2) against the heavily rated Czech Lubomir Jancarik. Besides him, Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Dang Qiu, who defeated his doubles partner Benedikt Duda, also made it into the quarterfinals.
Triple jump – Eckhardt-Noack just missed the medal
Triple jumper Neele Eckhardt-Noack was two centimeters short of the bronze medal at the end. In the final she jumped 14.43m, the third-placed Israeli jumped 14.45m. The Ukrainian Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk secured the European title.
Discus – Janssen is tenth
In the discus final, Henrik Janssen was over after just three throws. 61.11 m was not enough to get into the top eight and to be allowed to make three more throws. Janssen was tenth, Lithuanian Mykolas Alenkna won gold with 69.78m (European Championship record).
400m hurdles – Abuaku misses bronze by a hundredth
Joshua Abuaku just missed out on the bronze medal in the 400m hurdles and finished fifth. With his personal best of 48.79 seconds, the 26-year-old was only a hundredth slower than third-placed Turk Yasmani Copello. Ludvy Vaillant from France was fourth at the same time as Abuaku. The Norwegian and world record holder Karsten Warholm defended the European title.
For a long time it looked as if Carolina Kraftzik could compete for a medal in the women’s category. But on the home straight, the 27-year-old had to pay tribute to the high initial pace and fell back to last place. Gold went to Femke Bol from the Netherlands. Ukraine’s Viktoriya Tkachuk and Anna Ryzhykova took silver and bronze.
200m – Hartmann fifth after a good final sprint
In the 200m final, Joshua Hartmann showed a good final sprint and moved up to fifth place. The Brit Zharnel Hughes secured the European title ahead of his compatriot Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake and the Italian Filippo Tortu.
Alexandra Burghardt sprinted to last place in the women’s final. Switzerland’s Mujinga Kambundji won gold ahead of Great Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith and Denmark’s Ida Karstoft.
1500m – Klein is fifth, Trost tenth
In the 1500m final, Hanna Klein was fifth. Her teammate Katharina Trost crossed the finish line in tenth place. Gold went to Briton Laura Muir, silver went to Ciara Mageean from Ireland ahead of Poland’s Sofia Ennaoui.
3000m obstacle – Karl Bebendorf takes fifth place
Karl Bebendorf finished fifth in the 3000m steeplechase. The 26-year-old from Dresden was at the front until the last lap, but then the pace picked up again. Finland’s Topi Raitanen won gold ahead of Italy’s Ahmed Abdelwahed and Osama Zoghlami. The second German finalist, Niklas Buchholz, was 14th.