Markéta Vondroušová is cheering in the match of the Olympic tournament in Tokyo.
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In the semifinals, Vondroušová will face four Elena Svitolinová from Ukraine, with whom she lost three times and last year she defeated her for the first time in clay court in Rome. The Ukrainian winner of the 2018 Champions’ Tournament played four years ago in Rio de Janeiro, where she took care of the sensation by eliminating Serena Williams, but lost to Petra Kvitová in the quarterfinals. The second pair consists of the conqueror Barbora Krejčíková, the Swiss Belinda Bencicová and Jelena Rybakinová from Kazakhstan.
There is no shortage of surprises in the women’s doubles, and Krejčíková and Siniaková are the only one of the eight pairs left in the game. They want to confirm the role of the number one in the semifinals, but the Russian Jelena Vesninová and Veronika Kuděrmětovová stopped them in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon this year, even though they had to avert four match balls. The Russians then reached the finals on the London grass.
After three of the five series, the vice-champion of Europe in trap shooting Lipták is one of the five shooters who missed only once. David Kostelecký has two mistakes on his account, just like in 2008, when he won gold in Beijing. However, this year’s competition is much better, but he also has a real chance to get into the top six, which will win medals from 8:30 CEST.
| Czech Olympic participation on Thursday in Tokyo: |
| 2:50 rowing – final A: Vraštil, Šimánek |
| 2:50 sport shooting – trap men: Lipták, Kostelecký |
| 4:09 Golf Men – Round 1: Lieser |
| 4:50 rowing – skiff men – semifinal C / D: Fleissner |
| 5:00 yachting – RS: X men – 10.-12. race: Bench |
| 7:00 water slalom – C1 women – semifinal: Fišerová |
| 8:00 tennis – women’s doubles – semifinal: Krejčíková, Siniaková – Kuděrmětovová, Vesninová (RUS) |
| 9:00 beach volleyball – basic group: Perusic, Schweiner – Gaxiola, Rubio (Mex.) |
| cca v 11:00 tennis – women’s singles – semifinal: Vondroušová – Svitolinová (UKR) |
| 12:43 swimming – heats – 100m bow tie men: Šefl, 13:05 200 m female sign: Kubová |
Canoeist Tereza Fišerová drove cleanly in the water slalom course and set the third best time. She was even better than seven-time world champion Jessica Fox from Australia, who made two mistakes in each race. The world champion from 2017, the British Mallory Franklin, performed best in both qualifying rounds. Thursday’s semifinals will start at 7:00 CEST, the final with the top ten less than two hours later.
Lightweight double skiff Miroslav Vraštil, Jiří Šimánek won fourth place in the final, three medal boats from the last World Championship were beyond the strength of the Czech national team. Irish world champions Fintan McCarthy and Paul O’Donovan won more gold, the Germans finished second and the third Italians had a lead of 2.12 seconds over the Czech crew.
HOPE FOR TOKYO 2021
Profiles of Czech sports stars and interviews with the biggest medal hopes for the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021, which they begin on July 23 and end on August 8 and where he is in action a total of 115 Czech athletes.
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Golfers will play their four-round tournament and among the sixty participants, the Czech representative Ondřej Lieser will be at the games for the first time. The first player in the world rankings, the Spaniard Jon Rahm, lost his participation due to the coronavirus, but even without him the tournament will be a parade of golf stars. Among the brightest are the American Colin Morikawa, who won the British Open a week before the games, and the home Hideki Majucama, who wore a green jacket for the Masters winners in Augusta this year.
After all, the Czech beach volleyball players will have their Olympic start! Ondřej Perušič’s coronavirus quarantine ended on Wednesday, so he and David Schweiner can compete against the Mexican couple José Rubio, Josué Gaxiola. The Czechs already have a contum with the Latvian pair to their credit and only a win can really keep them in the game of advancing to the elimination part. After a week without training, however, they admit that it will be a difficult task.
Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games
2021 Olympic Games with designation Tokyo 2020 are in progress from July 23 to August 8, 2021. The Summer Olympics are held without spectators and there are 115 Czech athletes in action. At the 2016 Olympics in Rio, the Czechs won ten medals (one gold, two silver and seven bronzes).
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