World record and tears: Schoenmaker shapes swimming finals - kicker

When viewing the video wall in the Tokyo Aquatics Center, Tatjana Schoenmaker broke out in tears: With a fabulous race over 200 meters in world record period, the South African chest swimmers shimmered the Olympia finals on Friday. The 24-year-old took gold in 2: 18.95 minutes and subbed the previous record of the Danish Rikke Möller Pedersen from 2013 to 16 hundredths of hundredths.

A few hours before the third Tokyo appearance of Double World Champion Florian Wellbrock In the lead over 1500 meters Freestil, the international top floats delivered exciting races and fast times.

At the first session with finals and semi-finals in the Tokyo Aquatics Center without German participation Schoenmaker won off the two Americans Lilly King and Annie Lazor. Schoenmaker had won silver over half the distance in Japan. At the award ceremony, she cried again, her teammates on the tribune sang according to the national anthem with.

The first single world record falls

Schoenmaker achieved the first single world record on the seventh day of the competition at these summer games. Previously, it had given best marks on two season-stretch.

Schoenmaker was not the only one on Friday, who succeeded a record. Over 100 meters of freestyle, the Australian Emma McKeon crowned in Olympic best time of 51.96 seconds to the Olympic champion. Bronze went to Haghey Siobhan from Hong Kong, third was the Australian Cate Campbell.

The Russian back swimmer Jewgeni Rylov was at his triumph over 200 meters in 1: 53.27 minutes as soon as never before anyone on this route at Olympia. Over 200 meters lay the Chinese Wang Shun from Duncan Scott from Great Britain and the Swiss Jeremy DESPLANCHES. Philip Heindz from Heidelberg had already left the day before.

Dressing Konters Milak

In the 100-meter semi-finals, the two butterfly stars Kristof Milak made from Hungary and the American Caeleb Dressel play their muscles. First, Milak set an Olympic record in 50.31 seconds, only a few minutes later, Dresschesser was 60 hundredths of hundreds of hundreds faster and smiled satisfied.

In the second session of the day, the eyes of the German swimming fans depend mainly on Wellbrock. After his fourth place over 800 meters freestyle, the 23-year-old wants to absolutely a medal on one of his two gold routes of the 2019 World Cup 2019 in South Korea. First, at 13.23 (CEST), the flow is scheduled. The goal is the final on Sunday. Wellbrock is even more important on the longest of all Olympic baservic distances than over 800 meters.

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