Hilbert Hilbert Holt Olympia Silver over 50 km

Goer Jonathan Hilbert has surprisingly silver over 50 km at the Tokyo Olympic Games and thus the first German entertainment medal has been won for 29 years. The 26-year-old from the LG Ohra had to be beaten in Sapporo in 3:50:44 hours only the Poland Dawid Thomala (3:50:08). Bronze went to Evan Dunfee from Canada (3:50:59).

"If it had become top 15, I would have suited myself huge. Now it's the silver medal," said Hilbert in the ard: "I can not believe it, and I think it will take many days."

In a renewed heat shaft in the 800 kilometers north of Tokyo host city of Winter Games 1972, Hilbert showed a tactically outstanding race. The Thuringian, 2019 at the World Cup in Doha in still harder conditions 23., always kept in the front in the field without leaving too much power.

On the last kilometers he was the strongest and came to the long-distance Thomala again dangerous. Favorites such as Rio Olympic champion Matej Toth (Slovakia) and the French ex-world champion Yohann Diniz had fallen off or dropped early. The World Cup-seventh Carl Dohmann (Baden-Baden) came to 33, Nathaniel Seiler (Bühlertal) took place 42. Most recently, today's national coach Ronald Weigel had gotten over 50 km in Barcelona Bronze in 1992.

Hilbert used the last chance to reach an Olympic medal about his special route. After 92 years, the long distance falls from the program of summer games and is replaced by a mixed team competition in 2024 in Paris. The three German Olympic champions through the GDR athletes Christoph Höhne (1968) and Hartwig Gauder (1980) and Bernd Kannenberg (1972) will remain the one (foremost) only.

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