At the end of the Olympic Canoe competitions, German kayak four gold won and ensured for a reasonably conciliatory Olympic Final of the otherwise successful racing cannons. Max Rendschmidt, Ronald Rauhe, Tom Liebscher and Max Lemke triumphed on Saturday and won the third medal in canoe racing at the Tokyo games - six to seven medals had been the target. For the first time, women have not made it to the podium for a long time.
In Rio, there had been four times gold and a total of seven podium sites - it was the strongest Olympic yield since Athens 2004. The slalom channars, on the other hand, had doubled in Tokyo with once gold and three times bronze their target position twice.
During the three-time Olympic champion Sebastian Brendel on Saturday on the Sea Forest Waterway the medal finale in the Canadier-of-one not reached and his potential successor Conrad Scheibner missed the intended medal as a sixth also clearly missed, was once more reliable on the fours.
Replacement boat? No problem!
The German kayak quad was also not beating with the replacement boat. Immediately after the finish line, the Bärenstark Crew celebrated the victory over the Spaniards with a narrow advantage. Bronze went to Slovakia. When it was done, the 39-year-old rough raw rose as the first of the boat and hugged Buckmann Rendschmidt and then his two other teammates intimately. For Germany's most successful channars, it had been the last blow to the paddle after over two decades world class.
The 16-fold world champion harth has added to Bronze in Sydney 2000, Gold in Athens 2004, Silver 2008 in Beijing in the Kayak-two and Bronze 2016 in Rio in a now gold in fours. The coup safely retracted in the final spurt was also possible because of the waiver on single starts. "Of course we could have been fighting for medals in one or the other competition," said Buckmann Max Rendschmidt. But the finish gold ordered everything under.
It's important to attack the opponent in the head somewhere.
Ronald Rauhe
After the defeat at the World Cup in Szeged against the Spaniards, the team was blurred. "It's important to attack the opponent somewhere somewhere," said roughness and added, "We have worked out a plan to put the Spaniards tactically under pressure." It may not come up with the thought that can win. " And so it came then.
It was psychologically important for the crew that you could go to the race with the pink spare boat. Because the extra-made Olympic boat had been rammed by a forklift during loading in Luxembourg. The forks had demolished the K4 so that a total loss of around 50,000 euros was created. The identical second kayak was sent in a flash action from the training camp in Duisburg to Japan.
pink boats as a big dream
"When I was small, I saw the pink boats at Olympia. Every canoe growing up in Germany and wants to sit in the childhood room at Olympia in the pink boat," said Rough and stressed, "The history behind it is much more pooring. That's how I experienced it as a child, it remained until today. "
All wishes did not go on the last day of the competition. Thus, the three-time Olympic champion Sebastian Brendel (33 years) made of Potsdam not only the A-final, but also the historic Hattrick over the 1000-meter distance. Although the 25-year-old Conrad Scheibner from Berlin managed the announced "guard dissolution", but the medal was far from the gold gain of the Brazilian Isaquias Queiroz dos Santos.
The Canadier Duo Lisa Jahn and Sophie Koch (Berlin / Karlsruhe) came over the 500 meter distance in fourth place. The kayak quad with Sabrina Hering-Pradler, Melanie Gebhardt, Jule Hake and Tina Dietze landed in five place.