Status: 07/24/2022 05:26 am
The German sprint quartet won the first German medal at the World Championships in Athletics in Eugene. Over the 4×100 m, the DLV relay came in third place with 42.03 seconds and took bronze when the USA won.
They cheered, hugged each other, shed tears of happiness and took selfies: Tatjana Pinto, Alexandra Burghardt, the regained strength Gina Lückenkemper and Rebekka Haase were celebrated and celebrated themselves for the bronze medal, which they fought for after a strong performance in 42.03 seconds. Burghardt had won silver as a brakewoman in bobsleigh at the Olympic Winter Games in February and said before the upcoming European Championships in Munich: “Now gold is still missing.”
“The medal is a sensation. You would have expected the men to do that. That’s the push we needed,” said DLV President Jürgen Kessing. The German men’s relay with Kevin Kranz, Joshua Hartmann, Owen Ansah and Lucas Ansah-Peprah, who had performed well before the World Cup, had missed the finals because of two failed handovers.
World Championship gold went to the US women in 41.14 seconds, who finished 0.04 seconds ahead of Jamaica for world 100-meter champion Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce and world 200-meter champion Shericka Jackson. Most recently, the German sprinters also won bronze at the World Championships in Berlin in 2009.
Source: sportschau.de