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Awesome choke by Laugher! With a good last jump he could've set a new world record and even with an average jump he could've easily won the gold medal. Still i think he shouldn't be completely sad about this competition. Looking at the advantage he had over the chinese guys before the last jump i would say that it will be very hard for the chinese guys to catch up to him until Tokyo.

What happened with Dujardin and Langehanenberg? Are they competing with their best horses here? I guess this means that Rothenberger should make the german team?

Disgraceful performance by Hartung, he was in command until 7:5, then he fell asleep until 7:11 and when he woke up again it was too late. Very surprised to see Dershwitz losing, but maybe the home advantage helped the hungarian guy ... The german athletes today were handed historically weak draws and still weren't able to profit from it, this once again shows in what bad of a state german fencing is in. I also have to say that i am very surprised to see that you don't have to be remotely in shape to be successful in fencing. The girl from Luxembourg and the guy from Iran both looked clearly overweight and still (almost) won a medal. For me sabre is by far the least interesting weapon, it is just too fast and for someone who doesn't watch fencing very often, it is most of the time almost impossible to determine who should get a point.

Funny that she reached the quarterfinal while all italian girls are out. I guess she switched nationality when Italy was still stronger in this event ... or did she just become much better after switching nationality? Would also be interesting to know where she trains?

Not really sure if you are right about the girl from Luxembourg, she was never ranked better than 40th at junior level.

It could be a golden day for Korea. I think after the exit of Ndolo they are the only country with a chance for a medal on both sides.

What do you mean? I think Curatoli is the only italian left ... ?

Another far from convincing performance by Hartung, he has been very lucky with the draw, but now he probably needs a miracle against Abedini. At this point i would be shocked if the final wouldn't be Dershwitz vs. Oh, they seem to be on another level.

True, crazy that the Netherlands still have two medal contenders in this event. Van Klinken should be able to bounce back with a gold in shot put. Overall the Netherlands have more than enough gold medal contenders left, so this shouldn't be a huge blow for them, especially because Seedo's result was much more important. If Seedo (who reminds me of SAFP a lot) keeps progressing at this rate, she should be in the dutch relay in Tokyo next year and in a couple of years she could be a medal contender at the global stage, not sure whether Van Klinken has the same kind of talent.

The girl from Luxembourg is having a once in a century competition for her standards, but Ndolo still wasted a huge chance here. With a medal she could have made a huge step towards Tokyo, but now she will almost need a miracle to qualify. The part between 7:8 and 9:13 was some of the worst fencing i have ever seen, she looked completely clueless against an opponent who looks like a hobby atlete (easily 20 pounds overweight).

Ndolo once again proves that she is in great shape. I just hope that she stays focus and won't waste this huge chance for winning a medal. I have the feeling that in general epee seems to be the most unpredictable weapon. Sadly in the men's sabre all german athletes except for Hartung are already out. Now he has to try to save the german honor.

11.37 for Seedo in women's 100 m prelims. If nothing completely crazy happens, she will win U20 gold at the age of 16 ... I think the european U18 record is 11.24, she could very well break that record here with one more year of eligibility left! For the top 10 on the all-time U18 list she would need 11.20.

I had mainly Van Klinken and Bol in mind. Seedo shouldn't fight for a medal unless she drops a lot of time. Which events are Sedney and van Daalen entered in? At this stage it is hard to predict who has the best chances to be successful at senior level, but i would say from a german perspective the most promising talent is Leni Wildgrube in women's pole vault. Other interesting talents are Marie Scheppan (women's 400 m), Talea Prepens (women's 100 m), Lucie Kienast (women's long jump & heptathlon), Samantha Borutta (women's hammer throw), Stefan Volzer (men's 110 m hurdles), Leo Neugebauer (men's decathlon) and Malik Diakite (men's decathlon). Sadly some of the most promising talents will compete at the EYOF instead.

You should do much better at the U20 european championships, i think you will win at least 3 gold medals there and will probably finish ahead of Germany in the medal table.

I wonder if there will be any events where the winning marks will be better than at the U23 european championships ...? Sadly some big names (Ingebrigtsen, Burgin) are missing, but there are still more than enough very promising talents left (Kokhan, Lillefosse, Vicente, Seedo, Nacheva, Van Klinken, Miller, Sclabas, Mahuchikh, Tzenggo, Healy, Hunt, Scotti, Van de Velde, Bol, Carmoy, Iapichino, Johansson, Sotero, Ivanenko, Sorgeloos). I think out of the smaller nations Switzerland, the Netherlands, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Belgium and Belarus should do really great. Interesting note: In the men's discus throw there will be twins from the Czech Republic competing who could both win a medal. Also Belgium and Belarus seem to have tons of medal contenders across many disciplines, those nations seem to do a great work at junior level.

Thanks! I wonder why they show every diving competition, but not open water swimming where Germany actually can win medals ...

Congratulations, GB is starting to pull away from Germany, also some very surprising athletes on that list, for example Amy Hunt. Who do you see as main candidates in the field events? Lake (high jump), Proctor (long jump), Hitchon (hammer throw), Gale (high jump), Duckworth (decathlon) ... someone else? I have a hard time imagining that GB will have more than 6-8 athletes with the standard in field events, which is quite surprising for such a big nation. Germany on the other hand is doing fine in field events (In the end it should be over 30 athletes with the standard there) and in track events on the women's side (probably 10-15 woman should achieve the standard in their respective events), but they will have trouble in the track events on the men's side, i don't see more than 4-6 guys with the standard there.

Does anyone have a replay? I would be eternally thankful!

Amazing result! 4 out of 4 quotas for Germany. Expected gold for Wellbrock, but i am super surprised by Muffels. Very disappointing result for Paltrinieri, although i kind of expected this. He easily has the speed to win gold/silver, but he just hasn't enough experience with open water swimming yet. If he decides to swim this event in 2020, he should do much better there and i think the (very likely) gold in the 1500 free will be a big consolation for him.

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Men's 400m Freestyle Day 1 July 21st , 2019 Mack Horton Jack McLoughlin Sun Yang X Florian Wellbrock Gabriele Detti X Danas Rapsys X Aleksandr Krasnykh Mykhailo Romanchuk Zane Grothe Any Other Swimmer Women's 400m Freestyle Day 1 July 21st, 2019 Kiah Melverton Ariarne Titmus X Li Bingjie Wang Jianjiahe Boglarka Kapas Anja Kesely Simona Quadarella Katie Ledecky X Leah Smith X Any Other Swimmer Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Day 1 July 21st, 2019 Australia Brazil X Canada France Great Britain Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands Poland Russia X United States X Any Other Nation Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Day 1 July 21st, 2019 Australia X Canada X China Denmark France Germany Great Britain Japan Netherlands Russia Sweden United States X Any Other Nation Men's 100m Breaststroke Day 2 July 22nd, 2019 Ilya Shymanovich X Yan Zibei Tobias Bjerg Adam Peaty X James Wilby X Nicolo Martinenghi Fabio Scozzoli Yashurio Koseki Arno Kamminga Anton Chupkov Kirill Prigoda Michael Andrew Andrew Wilson Any Other Swimmer Women's 100m Butterfly Day 2 July 22nd, 2019 Emma McKeon X Brianna Throssell Maggie MacNeil Zhang Yufei Beryl Gastaldello Elena Di Liddo Svetlana Chimrova Erin Gallagher An Se-hyeon Louise Hansson Sarah Sjostrom X Kelsi Dahlia X Katie McLaughlin Any Other Swimmer Men's 50m Butterfly Day 2 July 22nd, 2019 Nicholas Santos X Mehdy Metella Ben Proud Oleg Kostin X Andrey Zhilkin Joseph Schooling Andrii Govorov X Michael Andrew Caeleb Dressel Any Other Swimmer Women's 200m Individual Medley Day 2 July 22nd, 2019 Kaylee McKeown Sydney Pickrem X Ye Shiwen X Siobhan-Marie O’Connor Katinka Hosszu X Rika Omoto Yui Ohashi Kim Seoyeong Melanie Margalis Any Other Swimmer Men's 200m Freestyle Day 3 July 23rd, 2019 Kyle Chalmers Clyde Lewis Fernando Scheffer Sun Yang X James Guy Duncan Scott X Dominik Kozma Ketsuhiro Matsumoto Danas Rapsys Mikhail Dovgalyuk Martin Malyutin Andrew Seliskar Townley Haas X Any Other Swimmer Women's 1500m Freestyle Day 3 July 23rd, 2019 Madeleine Gough Kiah Melverton Wang Jianjiahe X Kristel Kobrich Sarah Koehler Anja Kesely Simona Quadarella X Mireia Belmonte Katie Ledecky X Ashley Twichell Any Other Swimmer Women's 100m Backstroke Day 3 July 23rd, 2019 Kaylee McKeown Kylie Masse X Taylor Ruck X Fu Yuanhui Simona Kubova Katinka Hosszu Margherita Panziera Natsumi Sakai Kathleen Baker X Olivia Smoliga Any Other Swimmer Men's 100m Backstroke Day 3 July 23rd, 2019 Mitch Larkin X Marcus Thormeyer Jiayu Xu X Apostolos Christou Any Italian Swimmer Ryosuke Irie Any Romanian Swimmer Kliment Kolesnikov Evgeny Rylov Matt Grevers Ryan Murphy X Any Other Swimmer Women's 100m Breaststroke Day 3 July 23rd, 2019 Jessica Hansen Kierra Smith Shi Jinglin Arianna Castiglioni Alia Atkinson Reona Aoki Anna Belousova Yulia Efimova X Jessica Vall Tatjana Schoenmaker Lilly King X Micah Sumrall X Any Other Swimmer Men's 800m Freestyle Day 4 July 24th, 2019 Jack McLoughlin Felix Auboeck Guilherme Costa Sun Yang David Aubrey Florian Wellbrock X Gabriele Detti X Gregorio Paltrinieri Henrik Christiansen Mykhailo Romanchuk X Zane Grothe Any Other Swimmer Women's 200m Freestyle Day 4 July 24th, 2019 Emma McKeon X Ariarne Titmus X Penny Oleksiak Taylor Ruck Any Chinese Swimmer Charlotte Bonnet Siobhan Haughey Katinka Hosszu Federica Pellegrini Femke Heemskerk Veronika Andrusenko Sarah Sjostrom Katie Ledecky X Any Other Swimmer Men's 200m Butterfly Day 4 July 24th, 2019 David Morgan Matthew Temple Leonardo De Deus Li Zhuhao Tamas Kenderesei X Kristof Milak X Federico Burdisso Daiya Seto Chad le Clos X Zach Harting Justin Wright Any Other Swimmer Men's 50m Breaststroke Day 4 July 24th, 2019 Ilya Shymanovich Joao Gomes X Felipe Lima X Adam Peaty X Nicolo Martinenghi Fabio Scozzoli Yashurio Koseki Kirill Prigoda Caba Siladi Michael Houlie Michael Andrew Any Other Swimmer Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay Day 4 July 24th, 2019 Australia X Canada China Germany Great Britain X Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands Russia South Africa United States X Any Other Nation Women's 200m Butterfly Day 5 July 25th, 2019 Brianna Throssell Yufei Zhang X Franziska Hentke Alys Thomas Boglarka Kapas Suzuka Hasegawa Mireia Belmonte X Katie Drabot Hali Flickinger X Any Other Swimmer Men's 100m Freestyle Day 5 July 25th, 2019 Oussama Sahnoune Kyle Chalmers X Pieter Timmers Marcelo Chierighini Breno Correia Duncan Scott Alessandro Miressi Vladislav Grinev X Vladimir Morozov Caeleb Dressel X Blake Pieroni Any Other Swimmer Women's 50m Backstroke Day 5 July 25th, 2019 Minna Atherton Kaylee McKeown Etiene Medeiros X Chen Jie Fu Yuanhui X Mie Nielsen Mimosa Jallow Georgia Davies X Any Dutch Swimmer Allcja Tchorz Anastastia Fesikova Daria Vaskina Kathleen Baker Olivia Smoliga Any Other Swimmer Men's 200m Individual Medley Day 5 July 25th, 2019 Mitch Larkin X Caio Pumputis Qin Hiayang Wang Shun Philip Heintz Max Litchfield Duncan Scott X Daiya Seto Jeremy Desplanches Chase Kalisz X Any Other Swimmer Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Day 5 July 25th, 2019 Australia X Canada China X France Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands Russia United States X Any Other Nation Women's 100m Freestyle Day 6 July 26th, 2019 Cate Campbell X Emma McKeon X Penny Oleksiak Taylor Ruck Zhu Menghui Pernille Blume Charlotte Bonnet Siobhan Haughey Femke Heemskerk Ranomi Kromowidjojo Sarah Sjostrom X Mallory Comerford Simone Manuel Any Other Swimmer Women's 200m Breaststroke Day 6 July 26th, 2019 Sydney Pickrem Kelsey Wog Shi Jinglin Ye Shiwen Molly Renshaw Reona Aoki Yulia Efimova X Tatjana Schoenmaker Jessica Vall Lilly King X Micah Sumrall X Any Other Swimmer Men's 200m Backstroke Day 6 July 26th, 2019 Mitch Larkin X Jiayu Xu Luke Greenbank Matteo Restivo Ryosuke Irie Keita Sunama Radoslaw Kawecki Evgeny Rylov X Ryan Murphy X Jacob Pebley Any Other Swimmer Men's Breaststroke 200m Day 6 July 26th, 2019 Zach Stubblety-Cook Matthew Wilson Qin Haiyang Marco Koch Ross Murdoch James Wilby X Luca Pizzini Yashurio Koseki Ippei Watanabe X Dmitriy Baladin Anton Chupkov X Josh Prenot Andrew Wilson Any Other Swimmer Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay Day 6 July 26th, 2019 Australia X China Germany Great Britain X Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands Russia United States X Any Other Nation Women's 50m Butterfly Day 7 July 27th, 2019 Maggie MacNeil Penny Oleksiak Emilie Beckmann Jeanette Ottesen Farida Osman X Ranomi Kromowidjojo Louise Hansson Sarah Sjostrom X Kelsi Dahlia X Any Other Swimmer Men's 50m Freestyle Day 7 July 27th, 2019 Bruno Fratus X Ben Proud X Kristian Gkolomeev Maxim Lobanovskij Andrea Vergani Shinri Shioura Pawel Juraszek Vladimir Morozov Andrii Govorov Michael Andrew Caeleb Dressel X Any Other Swimmer Men's 100m Butterfly Day 7 July 27th, 2019 Vinicius Lanza Li Zhuhao Mehdy Metella X Marius Kusch James Guy Laszlo Cseh Kristof Milak Piero Codia Joseph Schooling X Chad le Clos Jack Conger Caeleb Dressel X Any Other Swimmer Women's 200m Backstroke Day 7 July 27th, 2019 Minna Atherton Kaylee McKeown Kylie Masse X Taylor Ruck Liu Yaxin Katalin Burian Katinka Hosszu Margherita Panziera X Anastasia Avdeeva Daria Ustinova Kathleen Baker Regan Smith X Any Other Swimmer Women's 800m Freestyle Day 7 July 27th, 2019 Kiah Melverton Ariarne Titmus Li Bingjie Wang Jianjiahe X Sarah Koehler Boglarka Kapas Simona Quadarella Mireia Belmonte Katie Ledecky X Leah Smith X Any Other Swimmer Mixed 4x100 Freestyle Relay Day 7 July 27th, 2019 Australia X Canada China X France Great Britain Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands Russia United States X Any Other Nation Men's 1500m Freestyle Day 8 July 28th, 2019 Jack McLoughlin Sun Yang Jan Micka David Aubrey Damian Joly Florian Wellbrock X Daniel Jervis Domenico Acerenza Gregorio Paltrinieri X Henrik Christiansen Mykhailo Romanchuk X Zane Grothe Jordan Willimovsky Any Other Swimmer Women's 50m Breaststroke Day 8 July 28th, 2019 Jessica Hansen Fanny Lecluyse Ida Hulkko Martina Carraro Benedetta Pilato X Alia Atkinson Yulia Efimova X Jessica Vall Sophie Hansson Lilly King X Any Other Swimmer Women's 50m Freestyle Day 8 July 28th, 2019 Bronte Campbell Cate Campbell X Etiene Medeiros Liu Xiang Pernille Blume X Femke Heemskerk Ranomi Kromowidjojo Maria Kameneva Erin Gallagher Sarah Sjostrom X Simone Manuel Abbey Weitzeil Any Other Swimmer Men's 50m Backstroke Day 8 July 28th, 2019 Mitch Larkin Mikita Tsmyh Finlay Knox Jiayu Xu X Jeremy Stravius Richard Bohus Shane Ryan Robert Glinta Kliment Kolesnikov X Evgeny Rylov Zane Waddell Michael Andrew X Ryan Murphy Any Other Swimmer Women's 400m Individual Medley Day 8 July 28th, 2019 Emily Overholt Sydney Pickrem X Ye Shiwen Fantine Lesaffre Aimee Willmott Katinka Hosszu X Zsuzsanna Jakabos Yui Ohashi X Mireia Belmonte Any Swimmer from USA Any Other Swimmer Men's 400m Individual Medley Day 8 July 28th, 2019 Thomas Fraser-Holmes Maksym Shemberev Brandonn Almeida Philip Heintz Max Litchfield Peter Bernek David Verraszto X Daiya Seto X Lewis Clareburt Joan Lluis Pons Ramon Chase Kalisz X Jay Litherland Any Other Swimmer Women's 4x100m Medley Relay Day 8 July 28th, 2019 Australia X Canada X China Italy Japan Russia South Africa Sweden United States X Any Other Nation Men's 4x100m Medley Relay Day 8 July 28th, 2019 Australia Brazil China Germany Great Britain X Italy Japan Russia X South Africa United States X Any Other Nation [/hide]

21 medals and 9 golds is a great result for Germany. The last time that a nation won more medals at european U23 championships was 2009 when Russia won 25 medals. In terms of golds this is the best result ever for Germany and in terms of total medals only 1999 (25 medals) and 2005 (26 medals) were better. Also with a bit more luck (in men's 100 m, women's 400 m, women's 3000 m SC and women's long jump) and if all the best german athletes would have competed, Germany could have won up to 12 golds and 30 medals. I fear that the U20 european championships next week won't even be remotely as successful for Germany.

I am quite shocked that many of the athletes (for example the turkish guy in triple jump or the lithuanian woman in triple jump) look rather in their late 30's than in their early 20's. Overall i would say that Germany, Poland and Belarus have the most promising talents here. The only track talents that could someday win a medal at the global stage in my opinion are Herman and maybe Reh. In the field events we saw many more talents that could some day win medals at the global stage.

He used an illegal substance knowingly, there is no way that this guy should've been allowed to compete during the next 2 years. Also please stop looking for excuses whenever an italian athlete gets caught, i am sure even you don't have the time for that. Clearly people who know more about this than you thought that this can enhance and athletes' performance, so who are you to say otherwise? I agree about the second part, people who use drugs (alcohol, cannabis, cigarettes and so on), clearly have no self-control and therefore are with no use for society.

Really disappointing result for Beck. I hope that she will learn from this and attack the next time. She easily has the speed to beat the girls who finished ahead of her, but she can't just swim with everyone else and hope to outsprint them, she has to attack at least 1 km before the finish line. Hopefully the men's race won't be as much of a snoozefest. I am optimistic that Wellbrock or Paltrinieri will attack much earlier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_water_swimming_at_the_2019_World_Aquatics_Championships_%E2%80%93_Women's_10_km