On the third day of the Wrestling World Championships in Paris, all three German starters failed prematurely.Maria Selmaier (Jena) lost in the 75 kg category in the hopeful round of the Japanese Hiroe Suzuki 1:2.Already in the last 16, Selmaier had been surprised by the Turkish European champion Yasemin Adar and had landed on both shoulders after a throw.Just because Adar reached the final afterwards, Selmaier was allowed to start in the hopeful round.
Laura Mertens (Ückerath/58 kg) prevailed in her opening duel with Jessica Olivares Bendezu (Peru) 12-2, but then lost the last sixteen against Kyrgyzstan’s Aisuluu Tynybekova 0-6.Sandra Paruszewski (Sulgen/55 kg) lost in the qualification of the Canadian Diana Weicker Ford.As Tynybekova and Weicker Ford missed the final, the two German wrestlers were eliminated.
Germany’s hopes on Thursday are based above all on the shoulders of the two Olympic starters from Rio 2016, Aline Focken (Krefeld/69 kg) and Nina Hemmer (Ückerath/53 kg).In 2014, Focken won the World Championship title in Tashkent, and Hemmer won bronze at this year’s European Championships in Novi Sad.