Sports Disposals Christian Reitz has passed past the hoped-for medal at the Olympic Games in Tokyo with the Quick Fire Gun. The favorite Olympic champion of Rio de Janeiro had to settle in the final on Monday with his parade weapon with 18 hits and the fifth place.
Gold secured the Frenchman Jean Quiquampoix (34 Hits) from Leuris Pupo from Cuba (29) and the Chinese Li Yuehong (26). The second German starter Oliver Geis (Kriftel) was eliminated in the qualification.
"What should you do? If the others are better, the others are better," said 34-year-old Reitz, who plans to be 2024 until the next summer games in Paris 2024: "If it continues to run this from my results and continue the whole thing So fits, there is no reason for stopping me. It has never been planned. "
Reitz, Olympiadriter by Beijing 2008, missed the first precious metal for the German sports shooters on the last day of the Olympic shooting competitions in Tokyo. With the bow at least the German women's team brought a bronze medal for the Rio-Second Lisa Unruh the German Schützenbund (DSB).
Olympia: No medal for German sports shooters
Reitz laid a failed start in the final with two failures in the first series, but the competitors had problems. In an exciting competition, Reitz stabilized first, five hits in a series do not arrive him.
Reitz had actually underlined his ambitions in the qualification. With a total of 587 rings he caused the best performance and moved sovereign into the final of the best six. Already a week ago Reitz had become fifth in his fifth discipline air pistol, in Mixed with Carina Wimmer (Kelheim Gmünd) he missed the final.
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Most recently, the German sports shooters were remained in London without a noble metal. From the outstanding performance five years ago in Rio (three times gold, once silver), the pistol, rifle and shotgunters in Japan were far away. Sports director Heiner Gabelmann spoke disappointed with a "rather bad cutting off."
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