#ada theilken

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Currently, Ninja Warrior Germany is airing again. It's the 8th season and they've upped the difficulty level in the semi-finals like crazy.

This year, only 5 (!) athletes managed to finish the whole course and hit the buzzer, among them a 16 year old. In the first semi-final, only two people managed the course - Daniel Berger and Jona Schöne. Daniel, or "Dima" as he is called, was at first really disappointed by his run of 2.49 min because he thought that he'd been far too slow. He had to rectify this assumption after only Jona managed to finish the course and was roughly 1 minute slower.

In the second semi-final, three people managed to finish - Sandro Scheibler, who also was over a minute slower than Dima, 16 y.o. Lukas Hohman who had won his qualifying round and therefore had a free ticket for the final but was of course allowed to try the course, and René Casselly, first Ninja Warrior Germany from S6.

You can see René's impressive in the video above. He lost time at the second obstacle or he would've been even faster. Like this, he managed to beat Dima's time but just 1 second! Poor Dima, so close to winning 10k for the fastest time! But René is always a contender for the fastest run because he is incredibly efficient and plans every obstacle in tiniest detail.

Best woman so far this year is Ada Theilken. She made it to the finale as 27th in the semis. We've got the rule that the 30 best athletes from the semis make it to the final plus the best 2 women - if no woman manages to come far enough in the course. But Ada beat a lot of well established male athletes this year, super proud of her!