The German water polo players surprisingly reached the final on the eighth day of the World University Games. The athletes Luka Herden and Antonia Kinzel won bronze. For the German basketball players, it was over in the semi -finals. Judoka Samira Bock won silver.
After a game exciting to the last second, the German team ended up 9: 8 against the New Zealanders.
Both teams had an open exchange of blows right from the start. After the New Zealanders won the first quarter 2-1, Germany came into play better in the second section and took a 4: 3 lead into the half-time break after two goals from Elena Ludwig.
The third quarter again belonged to the New Zealanders who took the lead back. So it went into the last eight minutes with a 6: 7 point of view. In these, the Germans were defensively stable and only allowed one goal. After Emma Seehafer equalized to 8: 8, Ionna Petiki made the victory 1:16 minutes before the end.
Germany already has a medal after the successful thriller. The gold medal is on Saturday at 5 p.m. USA.
German men fail because of Italy
Unlike the women, the German water polo players missed their way into the final. The men failed in the semifinals with 14:17 to Italy. The Italians started with a lot of momentum and pulled away with four goals ahead at the half -time break. In the third section, Germany was difficult to free itself from the dominance and was in the meantime with seven goals in the back.
However, the German team did not give up and only allowed a goal in the last section. However, your own four goals were not enough to make up for the high deficit. On Saturday, Germany will play bronze against Hungary.
Bock fetches silver in judo
Samira Bock from Erfurt had to give up in the final up to 70kg of Japanese Rin Maeda and won silver. The 22 -year -old lost to Ippon – after this rating, a fight ended immediately.
German basketball players fail dramatic
Despite a strong catch -up, the German basketball players missed their way into the final. The German team lost 78:83 against Brazil. After a weak first half, Germany showed a significant increase in performance in the third quarter. After a break of 43:50, the German team turned up and, after a 16-0 run, set 69:59 after the 3. Quarter. With eleven points, Guard Lukas Herzog was the outstanding man of the third section. He scored all of his eleven points in the third section.
In the final quarter, however, the Brazilians came back to 69:66 after a 7-0 run. A real drama developed. The fighting court in the Essen Grugahalle had a significant role in this. At 74:72 for Brazil, the score suddenly switched to 74:72 for Germany during a break. There was minutes of chaos before the score was corrected and could be continued.
After minutes of waiting, Germany turned the game again (77:74). In crunchtime it was also hectic on the floor. Brazil came back and pulled away 20 seconds before the end with three points. The German team had nothing to oppose this. In the second semi -finals, the United States prevailed against Lithuania with 72:64.
Bronze in the long jump and discus
Germany’s Luka Herden cheered his profit in the long jump at the World University Games
The Münster Luka Herder won the bronze medal in the long jump final. The 25-year-old jumped 7.96m and thus nine centimeters further than the Erfurt Simon Batz. Gold went to the Chinese Shu Heng (8.09m), silver to Koki Fujihara (8.00m) from Japan.
The German athletics team also won bronze medal in the final of the discus throws. Antonia Kinzel from Mannheim threw the disc 58.43m. “I already felt pressure as a defending champion. But people made a great atmosphere here. I’m great happy with bronze,” said Kinzel in the WDR. Only the Turkish Ozlem Becerek (61.15m) and Anna Lindfors from Sweden (58.80m) continued. Joyce Oguama from Bochum became fifth in her home game with a width of 58.07m.
Germany’s Antonia Kinzel in action at the discus throw at the World University Games
Titian Lauria (Stuttgart) finished fifth after 19.66m. Gold went to the South African Aiden Smith (20.25m), silver to Xing Jialiang from China (20.08m) and bronze to the Italian Riccardo Ferrara (19.91m).
Yasmin Amaadacho just missed the medal
Yasmin Amaadacho missed a medal. At the final over 400m hurdles, the 21-year-old was fourth, 13 hundredths of a second behind the third-placed Sára Mátó from Hungary (55.92 seconds) with a personal best of 56.05 seconds. The Italian Alice Muraro (54.60) grabbed the title ahead of Michelle Smith from the American Virgin Islands (55.65).
Germany’s Smilla Kolbe lies on the ground in the finale of the 800m exhausted
In the final over 800m, the German Smilla Kolbe finished fifth with a time of 2: 01.42 minutes. Gold went to the Italian Eloisa Coiro (1: 59.84), silver to Veronica Vancardo from Switzerland, bronze to Spaniard Daniela Garcia Tena. In the 200m final of women, Vittoria Fontana won gold with a personal best (22.79 seconds).
Behind it got Silver and Bronze. In the men, the South African Bayanda Walaza (20.63 seconds) won ahead of Adria Alfonso Medero from Spain (20.70) and Lee Jaeseong from South Korea (20.75).
Varfuki Abe got the title over 110m hurdles. The Japanese secured the title with 13.47 seconds before the Spaniard Angel Diaz Rodriguez (13.58) and the South African Mondray Barnard (13.59). In the mixed competition over 4x400m hurdles, Poland secured the gold medal. Silver went to South Africa, bronze to the USA.
Vasquez loses home game and fails in the semi -finals
In the semi-finals of the tennis competition, the German Alessio Vasquez lost to the British Toby Samuel (6: 7, 3: 6). Despite the defeat, the 22-year-old secured bronze.
Poland fetches gold in Volleyball final the men
The Polish national volleyball team clearly won the final in the Max Schmeling Halle in Berlin 3-0 (25:15, 25:18, 25:20). In the game for third place, Italy secured bronze. 3: 1 (34:32, 25:19, 23:25, 25:16) won the Italians against Japan.
Our sources:
- FISU University Games website
- Livestream of the sports show
