Passing the podium past - Gapemper: "It's shit" - Tokyo

The German sprinters and sprinters have missed 4x100 m at the games in Tokyo medals. Rebekka Haase (Wetzlar), Alexandra Burghardt (Burghausen), Tatjana Pinto (Paderborn) and Gina gapsemper (Berlin) came in the final of women after a weak last change in five. The DLV quartet, which went 42.00 in advance, were missing in 42.12 seconds to Bronze 24 hundredths.

"We have given everything. Of course we annoy ourselves," Haase said in the ARD, while closing runs loosely accounted for gaps: "It's shit."

Gold for the first time since 2004 went to Jamaica, which made the world record of the USA (40.82) by two tenths in the third best ever progressed time of 41.02 seconds. Silver went to US Americans (41.45) from the UK (41,88).

Italy wins again - Jamaica only fifth

In the men, the German quartet came with Julian Reus (Erfurt), Joshua Hartmann (Cologne), Deniz Almas (Wolfsburg) and Lucas Ansah-Preprah (Hamburg) in 38.12 seconds in second place. After his sensational victory over 100 m, Lamont Marcell Jacobs led the Italian sprint season for the first time to Olympic Gold. Italy won in 37.5 seconds gossip from Great Britain (37.51), bronze went to Canada (37.70). Jamaica, with Usain Bolt winner of London and Rio, came only in five place (37.84). The US had already failed in the lead.

Third Tokyo Gold for Thompson Herah

Jamaikas Top Printer Elaine Thompson-Herah won her third gold medal in Tokyo. With now five Olympic blanches she moved to two under the most successful athletes, the American Allyson Felix has six gold medals.

The last German medal had won the women's season of the GDR with silver in 1988 in Seoul. In 2016 in Rio, Haase, gapsman and Pinto with Lisa Mayer (Wetzlar) had become fourth.