Quickly beaten: Hoff / Schopf get in kayak-two silver - Schopf

In front of the boat a lot of routine, the back of the Turbo - that of the age and the size of uneven duo Max Hoff and Jacob Schopf harmed in the kayak-two. Almost it would have become gold.

For a longedent victory, it was not quite enough for Max Hoff and Jacob Schopf, but also with Olympia-silver were the two world champions in the kayak-two happy. Shortly after the target passage, they hugged themselves, booted boat with the winners Jean van der Westhuyzen and Thomas Green from Australia. 0.304 seconds missed the two athletes from Essen and Potsdam on Thursday over the 1000 meters on the Sea Forest Waterway after a true canoe thriller. Third party were the Czechs Josef Dostal and Radek Slouf.

Sport director bald: "That was important"

"That was important, the boat was one of our medal benches. But it is also obvious that the Oceania countries like Australia and New Zealand had a great preparation," said Canoe sports director Jens Kahl. After Bronze by Sebastian Brendel / Tim Hecker in the Canadier-Two, it was the second medal for the German Canoe Association at the summer games in Tokyo.

16 years old difference was not a problem once again. The two-generation boat with the 38-year-old Max Hoff and the only 22 year old Jacob Schopf harmed magnificently. The eight-fold canoe-world champion hoff, which with his 1.98 meters in front as a batsman almost the twelve centimeter smaller chief as a helmsman almost the point of view, had announced a "narrow, open thing" and emphasizes: "We know what we dream of But we can also be a bit more than that. " In the semifinals they controlled the field and drove safely into the final. Also, because they could rely on their final spurt.

Australian think successfully in the spurt

Even in the final, it looked at first, the final spurt could rich again to victory, because the initially almost a length of Australians were initially overtaken. But then the two men from Down Under stopped and won at the end with a wafer-thin projection.

Schopf had previously been shown after the missed medal as a fourth in an aggressive and promised: "There are still enough grains for the two." Especially because the World Champion Duo had moved directly into the semifinals from 2019. "Actually, after every 1000 meters, you have to take 5,000 kilocalories here. It is a giant energy act here," said Schopf.

New generation of "perfectionism"

The personal defeat in a ("I've tackled") he had done well. "I talked to my parents and friends and get good encouragement," he said. "I realized that there is more than winning a medal."

Schopf applies in the German team as a driver of the new generation. Statements like "Perfectionism speaks from each of us" witnesses for a professional approach. He was sad that his family could not seepper on site: "My family and my two best buddies would have come, even my old coach. When they have heard, that no viewers are allowed to come, it was already a lousy blow for them and for me."

The German medal winners of Tokyo