Miriam Butkereit fights bronze at Judo World Cup in Budapest!

Miriam Butkereit fights bronze at Judo World Cup in Budapest!

In the Hungarian capital Budapest, sweating, fighting and ultimately cheered. The Hamburg-based Miriam Butkereit today drew attention to herself with an impressive appearance and secured the bronze medal at the Judo World Championships in the weight class up to 70 kilograms. Her performance in the reservatories against Australians Aoife Coughlan was also characterized by remarkable determination. With this triumph, butkeeperit crowns her career with her first World Cup individual medal-just a year after her sensational second place at the Olympic Games in Paris, as ndr.de.

Butkeeper away to the medal was anything but easy. In the quarter -finals she had to give up the later winner Shiho Tanaka from Japan. Then she entered the consolation round, where she won the win against the Greek Elisavet Teltsidou. These successes show that butkeeperit is not only a talented athlete, but also has the necessary fighting spirit that is necessary to survive on the international stage.

judo in Budapest and more

The Judo World Championships, which have been taking place here regularly since 1956, are a show of the best athletes from all over the world. This year Budapest is celebrating this prestigious title fights again and is brightly lit in the next rounds. So it is no wonder that butkeeperit does not represent the only medal hope from Germany, because Mascha Ballhaus has already won bronze in the class up to 52 kg.

This seamlessly joins success in a number of excellent performance of German judo athletes. On Wednesday, Alina Böhm will demonstrate her skills in the class up to 78 kg. The World Championships will end on Friday with the last individual decisions before the mixed competition is due.

sporting events in Hamburg

What else is in Hamburg? Another sporty highlight is the upcoming WTA tournament, which will take place in the Hanseatic city from July 13th to 20th. Here the new German tennis number one, Tatjana Maria, will debut. She comes fresh from her success in the London Queen’s Club, where she was able to win the WTA-500 trophy. The predecessor of Maria, Eva Lys, will also be at the start in Hamburg. You can be excited to see how the two athletes will do.

and also in the field of football there is news: FC Hansa Rostock lost in the dispute over the third division game against SpVgg Unterhaching before the DFB. The constant federal court rejected Rostock's lawsuit against the short -term dismissal of the game as inadmissible. This brought the association additional effort and unexpected costs.

In the international tennis scene, another Hamburger, Alexander Zverev, will compete at the US Open in mixed. Together with the Swiss Belinda Bencic, the duo is hunting, with prize money for the winner at one million dollars. The Reformed Mixed competition promises exciting matches in which nine of the current top 10 tennis players: inside.

Sport in Hamburg is developing in a variety of ways - from Judo to tennis to football. The coming weeks promise an entertaining festival for all sports enthusiasts in the Hanseatic city. In any case, we can look forward to the next highlights!