Jiří Lipták is the Olympic winner
Ondrej Deml, ČTK
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Tennis players Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková will play for Olympic gold medals in doubles in Tokyo. In the semifinals, the highest pair defeated the Russian Jelena Vesninová and Veronika Kuděrmětová 6: 3, 3: 6, 10: 6. At their premiere under five circles, the Czechs managed the third super tie-break in a row and repaid the opponents eliminated in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon.
Thanks to the break in the sixth gamma, the first set sounded better for Krejčíková and Siniaková, in the second set the Russians did the same. Thanks to the great service, the Czechs did not lose even once in the decisive super tie-break, they got into a five-point lead and after an hour and a half they changed the third match.
Golden ride of Czech shooters
Czech shotgun shooters Jiří Lipták and David Kostelecký won the Olympic trap competition. After a dramatic shootout, Lipták won the first Olympic gold of his career, Kostelecký finished second and reached the second medal under five circles after the triumph in Beijing in 2008. Third place went to Brit Matthew Coward Holley.
Both Czech shooters gradually eliminated all four opponents in the final and after 50 shots and 43 shots they fought a decisive duel in the shootout. In the end, the 39-year-old Lipták did better in it, defeating his colleague seven years older thanks to an intervention on the seventh blow. Kostelecký missed here and could only congratulate his compatriot.
David Kostelecký showed an excellent performance
Ondrej Deml, ČTK
Canoeist Tereza Fišerová advanced safely to the finals of the Olympic water slalom race. She set the second time in the semifinals, better only seven-time world champion Jessica Fox from Australia, for whom Fišerová lost 2.64 seconds. However, the fight of the medal of the Czech national team did not work out, after several mistakes from the beginning of the race, the sixth ended in the end. Australian Jessica Fox rejoiced in the victory.
Perusic and Schweiner got off to a great start
Beach volleyball players Ondřej Perušič and David Schweiner defeated the Mexicans Gaxiola, Rubia 2: 1 in the late entry into the Olympic tournament due to the covid.
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| Czech Olympic participation on Thursday in Tokyo: |
| 4:09 Golf Men – Round 1: Lieser |
| 5:00 yachting – RS: X men – 10.-12. race: Bench |
| 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 |
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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Skier Jan Fleissner took third place in the so-called C / D semifinals and advanced to the C finals.
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.
American swimmer Caeleb Dressel dominated the hundred crawler at the Tokyo Games and reached the fourth Olympic gold of his career. For the first time, however, he succeeded in individual discipline. The first ever medal at a major international event went to his compatriot Robert Finke in the 800 meters freestyle, which premiered this year under five rings, and Australian Izaac Stubblety-Cook for the 200 meters breaststroke.
The Chinese Zhang Yufei dominated the two-hundred butterfly butterfly and followed on from Monday’s silver from the halfway line. At the end of the program, she also won the new world record in the new world record of 7: 40.33 together with Yang Jün-süan, Chang Mu-chan and Li Ping-tie in the 4×200 m freestyle relay.
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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In the women’s competition, Kenyan beach volleyball players Brackcides Khadambi and Gaudencia Makokha set an infamous record on the Tokyo sands. The Americans Kelly Claes and Sarah Sponcilla were able to resist in just 25 minutes, which according to the AP agency is the fastest women’s match at the Olympic Games since the introduction of the points system 19 years ago. At that time, the FIVB agreed to count without losses and sets up to 21 points. The Kenyans in Shiokaz Park gave the American pair only 14 points and lost 8:21 and 6:21.
He gets out of a closely watched fight
The reigning two-time pole vault world champion Sam Kendricks from the USA had a positive test result for covid-19 and will lose his start at the Tokyo Olympics. He will get out of his expected duel with world record holder Armand Duplantis from Sweden. Athletic competitions start in Tokyo on Friday, the finals of the pole are scheduled for Tuesday.
Two foreign participants in the Olympic Games infected with coronavirus had to be hospitalized in Tokyo. The unnamed are the first participants in the games, which are known to have ended up in the hospital scene in connection with the covid-19. As in other cases, the organizers did not disclose their identities.
Gold for Slovakia
Zuzana Rehák Štefečeková won in trap shooting and won the first medal for Slovakia at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. The 37-year-old Slovak flag bearer defeated the American Kayle Browning in a battle for gold, and after the silver medals from Beijing and London, she received the most valuable medal.
| XXXII. Tokyo Summer Olympics: |
| ROWING: |
| Men: |
| Lightweight double scale: |
| 1. McCarthy, O’Donovan (Ir.) 6:06,43 |
| 2. Rommelmann, Osborne (DEU) 6: 07.29 |
| 3. Oppo, Ruth (It.) 6: 14.30 |
| 4. Vraštil, Šimánek (CZE) 6: 16.42 |
| 5. Van Zandweghe, Brys (Belgium) 6:18,10 |
| 6. Cetraro Berriolo, Kluver Ferreira (Uruguay) 6: 24,21. |
| Deuceless couple: |
| 1. V. Sinkovic, M. Sinkovic (HRV) 6: 15.29 |
| 2. Tudosa, Cozmiuc (Rum.) 6: 16,58 |
| 3. Vystavel, Sutton (DEN) 6: 19,88 |
| 4. Langerfeld, McCabe (Kan.) 6: 20.43 |
| 5. Mackovic, Vasic (SRB) 6: 22.34 |
| 6. Canalejo Pazos, García Ordónez (Šp.) 6: 25,25. |
| Women: |
| Lightweight double scale: |
| 1. Rodiniová, Cesariniová (It.) 6:47,54 |
| 2. Tarantolaová, Boveová (Fr.) 6:47,68 |
| 3. Paulis, Keijser (NZL) 6: 48.03 |
| 4. Craig, Grant (Brit.) 6: 48.04 |
| 5. Reckford, Sechser (USA) 6: 48.54 |
| 6. Cozmiucová, Beleagaová (Rum.) 6:49,40. |
| Deuceless couple: |
| 1. Gowler, Prendergast (N. Zél.) 6: 50.19 |
| 2. Oryabinská, Stěpanovová (Rus.) 6: 51.45 |
| 3. Filmer, Janssens (CAN) 6: 52.10 |
| 4. Gloverová, Swannová (Brit.) 6:54,96 |
| 5. Kyriduová, Burmpuová (Řec.) 6: 57,11 |
| 6. Cidová, Díazová (Šp.) 7: 00.05. |
| C / D semifinals with Czech participation: |
| Men’s Skiff: |
| 1. Parry (NZL) 6: 57.70, |
| …3. Fleissner (CZ) 6: 59.61 – advanced to the final C. |
| RUGBY: |
| Women: |
| Group A: |
| Russia – Great Britain 12:14 (5: 7) |
| New Zealand – Kenya 29: 7 (17: 7), |
| 11:30 New Zealand – Great Britain, |
| 12:00 Russia – Kenya. |
| Group B: |
| France – Fiji 12: 5 (7: 5) |
| Canada – Brazil 33: 0 (7: 0) |
| 09:30 Canada – Fiji, |
| 10:00 France – Brazil. |
| Group C: |
| USA – China 28:14 (7: 7) |
| Australia – Japan 48: 0 (24: 0), |
| 10:30 Australia – China, |
| 11:00 USA – Japan. |
| BASKETBALL: |
| Women: |
| Group A: |
| Canada – South Korea 74:53 (16:15, 33:28, 49:39), |
| 10:20, Spain – Serbia |
| Men: |
| Group C: |
| Slovenia – Japan 116: 81 (29:23, 53:41, 80:64) |
| 14:00 Spain – Argentina |
| HANDBALL: |
| Women: |
| Group A: |
| Netherlands – Angola 37:28 (17:15), |
| Japan – South Korea 24:27 (11:12) |
| 09:15 Montenegro – Norway. |
| Group B: |
| Spain – Brazil 27:23 (13:13), |
| 12:30 Hungary – Russia |
| 14:30 Sweden – France. |
| TABLE TENNIS: |
| Women: |
| Singles Semifinals: |
| Chen Meng (CHN) – Mengyu Yu (SGP) 4: 0 (6, 8, 7, 6) |
| Sun Jingsha (CHN) – Ito (JPN) 4: 0 (3, 9, 6, 4). |
| 13:00, for 3rd place: Mengyu Yu – Ito, |
| 14:00, final: Chen Meng – Sun Jingsha. |
| WATER POLO: |
| Men: |
| Group A: |
| Hungary – South Africa 23: 1 (4: 0, 5: 0, 8: 0, 6: 1), |
| USA – Italy 11:12 (4: 2, 3: 3, 2: 3, 2: 4) |
| 11:20 Greece – Japan. |
| Group B: |
| Spain – Kazakhstan 16: 4 (3: 0, 3: 0, 5: 2, 5: 2), |
| Croatia – Montenegro 13: 8 (1: 1, 6: 4, 4: 3, 2: 0) |
| 12:50 Serbia – Australia. |
| SWIMMING: |
| Men: |
| 100 m v. zp: |
| 1. Dressel (USA) 47,02 |
| 2. Chalmers (Austr.) 47,08 |
| 3. Kolesnikov (Rus.) 47.44 |
| 4. Grousset (Fr.) 47.72 |
| 5. Hwang Sun-u (Korea) 47,82 |
| 6. Miressi (It.) 47,86 |
| 7. Popovici (Rum.) 48.04 |
| 8. Németh (HUN) 48.10. |
| 200 m prsa: |
| 1. Stubblety-Cook (Austr.) 2:06,38 |
| 2. Kamminga (Niz.) 2:07,01 |
| 3. Mattsson (Fin.) 2: 07.13 |
| 4. Čupkov (RUS) 2: 07.24 |
| 5. Fink (USA) 2:07,93 |
| 6. Wilby (Brit.) 2:08,19 |
| 7. Mura (Jap.) 2: 88.42 |
| 8. Persson (SWE) 2: 08.88. |
| 800 m v. zp.: |
| 1. Finke (USA) 7: 41.87 |
| 2. Paltrinieri (It.) 7: 42.11 |
| 3. Romanchuk (UKR) 7: 42.33 |
| 4. Wellbrock (DEU) 7: 42.68 |
| 5. McLoughlin (Austr.) 7:45,00 |
| 6. Frolov (Ukr.) 7:45, 11 |
| 7. Auböck (Rak.) 7: 49,14 |
| 8. Costa (Braz.) 7:53.31. |
| Women: |
| 200 m mot .: |
| 1. Chang Yufei (China) 2: 03.86 |
| 2. Smith (USA) 2: 05.30 |
| 3. Flickingerová (USA) 2:05,65 |
| 4. Kapásová (Hungary) 2: 06.53 |
| 5. Čimrovová (Rus.) 2: 07.70 |
| 6. Yu Li-yen (China) 2: 07.85 |
| 7. Thomas (Brit.) 2: 07.90 |
| 8. Throssellová (Austr.) 2: 09,48. |
| 4×200 m v. zp .: |
| 1. China (Yang Junchuan, Chang Muhan, Chang Yufei, Li Pingji) 7: 40.33 – world record |
| 2. USA (Schmitt, Madden, McLaughlin, Ledecká) 7: 40.73 |
| 3. Australia (Titmus, McKeon, Wilson, Neale) 7: 41.29 |
| 4. Canada 7: 43.77 |
| 5. Russia 7: 52.15 |
| 6. Germany 7: 53.89 |
| 7. Hungary 7: 56.62 |
| 8. France 7: 58.15. |
| VOLLEYBALL: |
| Women: |
| Group A: |
| South Korea – Dominican Republic 3: 2 (20, -17, 18, -15, 12), |
| Serbia – Kenya 3: 0 (21, 11, 20) |
| 12:40 Japan – Brazil. |
| Group B: |
| Italy – Argentina 3: 0 (21, 16, 15), |
| 09:25 China – Russia, |
| 14:45 USA – Turkey. |
| BADMINTON: |
| Mixed Doubles Semifinals: |
| Cheng Swei, Chuang Yichong (China) – Tang Chun Man, Tse Ying Suet (HKG) 2: 0 (16, 12) |
| Wang I-lu, Chuang Tungping (China) – Watanabe, Higashin (JPN) 2: 1 (-21, 15, 14). |
| FIELD HOCKEY: | |||||||
| Men: | |||||||
| Group A: | |||||||
| Indie – Argentina 3:1 (0:0). | |||||||
| Table: | |||||||
| 1. | Australia | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 21:8 | 12 |
| 2. | Indie | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10:10 | 9 |
| 3. | Spain | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8:9 | 4 |
| 4. | New Zealand | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10:12 | 4 |
| 5. | Argentina | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6:10 | 4 |
| 6. | Japan | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7:13 | 1 |
| Group B: | |||||||
| Belgium – Canada 9:1 (2:1) | |||||||
| South Africa – Germany 4: 3 (2: 3) | |||||||
| Netherlands – Great Britain 2: 2 (1: 0). | |||||||
| Table: | |||||||
| 1. | Belgium | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 24:7 | 12 |
| 2. | The Netherlands | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 12:10 | 7 |
| 3. | Great Britain | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9:9 | 7 |
| 4. | Germany | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 16:9 | 6 |
| 5. | JAR | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 12:20 | 3 |
| 6. | Canada | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5:23 | 0 |
| SPORT SHOOTING: |
| Trap: |
| Men: |
| 1. Lipták 43 + 7 in a shootout |
| 2. Kostelecký (both CR) 43 + 6 |
| 3. Coward Holley (Brit.) |
| 4. Orozco Díaz (Mex.) |
| 5. Yu Haicheng (China) |
| 6. Faihan (I). |
| Women: |
| 1. Rehak Stefecekova (SR) 43 |
| 2. Browningová (USA) 42 |
| 3. Perilliová (San Mar.) |
| 4. Scanlanová (Austr.) |
| 5. Stancova (It.) |
| 6. Smith (Austr.) |
| TENNIS: |
| Men: |
| Doubles Semifinals: |
| Čilič, Dodig (HRV) – Daniell, Venus (NZL) 6: 2, 6: 2. |
| Women: |
| Doubles Semifinals: |
| Krejcikova, Siniakova (1-CR) – Vesninová, Kuděrmětovová (RUS) 6: 3, 3: 6, 10: 6. |
| WATER SLALOM |
| Women: |
| C1: |
| 1. Foxová (Austr.) 105.04 (0 penalty seconds) |
| 2. Franklinová (Brit.) -3,64 (2) |
| 3. Herzogová (DEU) -6.09 (2) |
| 4. Delassusová (Fr.) -10,89 (0) |
| 5. Weratschnig (AUT) -14.37 (2) |
| 6. Fišerová (CZE) -15.95 (4) |
| BEACH VOLLEYBALL: |
| Men: |
| Group B: |
| Perusic, Schweiner (11-CZ) – Gaxiola, Rubio (23-Mex.) 2: 1 (-17, 16, 14) |
| 10:15 Krasilnikov, Stoyanovsky (2-Rus.) – Plavin, Toch (14-Lot) |
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