Rio 2016

With 425 athletes to Rio

Germany is learning with 425 top sports at the Olympic Games in Rio the Janeiro. 24 days before the opening ceremony of the German Olympic sports Confederation (DOSB) has nominated the rest of the athletes.

Overall, the German Olympic Team is expected to be 451 athletes at the Start, including 26 so-called Alternate Athletes travelling as replacement athletes. A larger team of the DOSB had the last time in 2004, after Athens sent (452). In the final round, 247 athletes have been named.

Not including the two football Teams, the handball players and the messenger in the horse sports are nominated. In the team sports, the squad designation will be carried out this Thursday, when the riders according to the Sunday running of the CHIO in Aachen.

Molitor not nominated

The javelin thrower Christina Obergföll. The silver medal winner of London, was preferred to world champion Katharina Molitor. “For the Association it was a luxury problem for the athlete, it is not tragic to be in the Olympics,” said DLV President Clemens Prokop. Decisive for the nomination Obergfölls was that the Olympic Second 2012 and world champion 2013 this year, with 64,96, and 63,96 meters twice more as Molitor had thrown. Molitor managed at the European Championships in Amsterdam, where she was Fourth, with only 63,20 meters, the longest throw of the season.

Also, pole vaulter Raphael Holzdeppe is part of the Team, due to injury so far, no qualification of the amount has to show for it. The objective of the German team is, to repeat, the medal yield of London 2012 at least. At that time, the German team had won 44 medals – eleven Gold, 19 silver and 14 Bronze medals.

og/sn (sid, dpa)