Olympia: German Railway Four Rest by world record to Olympia gold

The train wheel fours of the women ensures the first German Olympic In Izu Velodrome. Again, a world record falls.

After her sheer incredible triumph, Lisa Kurzauer and Co. barely came out on the wheel from the cheering. The gold medal, for which the crazy world record show - the German railway foursome provided a historical success in the team tracking. It was the first Olympic victory of a German women's team in the king's discipline of railway sports, and in an inimitable way.

"I'm positively surprised that it is so exploded now," said Bundestrainer Andre Korff: "It's about that the girls are now in the right season. In the summer season you can get their potential extremely."

Already in the lead, the German quartet had once again set up a world record. In the surprisingly unilateral final, Briefauer, Franziska Braußen, Lisa Klein and Mieke Kröger no two hours later then in 4: 04.242 minutes later a further world story, the third overall, follow and thus Olympic champion Great Britain behind them. They brought the first gold medal for the Bund German cyclist (BDR) in the competitions in Izu Velodrome.

"Oh my God, in what kind of time. I never thought that in the girls is at all. They probably not a few months ago," said the two-time Olympic champion Kristina Vogel in their role as _zdf_expertin: "It is fantastic, what you have brought for a performance. That's incredible. "

That's exactly what the four German women had previously painted. "You can always dream," Brombau had said the day before, as she had undercut the five-year-old world record of the UK for almost three seconds together with her teammates in qualifying. But that should not last long.

Railroad: world records in the lead

In the lead on Tuesday, Britain initially subdivided the German top brand, then the German team countered again 4: 06.159 minutes. In the final of several hundred spectators, it came to the direct duel of the two top nations, in which Germany had the larger power reserves and even put a turn on: the lead in the target was incredible 6.365 seconds. Bronze went to the USA.

In the team tracking, where women can only win Olympic medals in London since 2012, a German women's team had never been able to get precious metal.

The German team trumped with the success already on the second day of the competition the disappointing balance of the games 2016. In Rio, the BDR had only recovered gold and once bronze, located far outside of Tokyo, in addition to the Olympic victory of the Fourser, the silver medal of Lea- Sophie Friedrich and Emma Hinze in Teamsprint to Beech.

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Further precious metal should follow: Although the German team on Wednesday in the team tracking of men probably plays only a supporting role. On Thursday then, however, in the Keirin as well as Roger Kluge in the Mehrkampf Omnium want to go again.