The tenth German gold medal goes to a table tennis player. The women’s dressage team collects medals in the park of the Palace of Versailles. A comeback is crowned in the Bercy Arena.
Table tennis player Sandra Mikolaschek has won the tenth German gold medal at the Paralympics in Paris. The 27-year-old defeated Serbian Borislava Peric-Rankovic 3-1 in the final. For the German para-table tennis players, this is the first gold at the games in the French capital after three silvers and one bronze.
The German dressage riders won three medals at the end of the equestrian competitions. Anna-Lena Niehues and Regine Mispelkamp each secured silver in their classes in the freestyle. Heidemarie Dresing rounded off the good result with bronze.
The 40-year-old Niehues secured second place on Quimbaya in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles with 80.900 points behind the Dutch rider Demi Haerkens. Mispelkamp also took silver on Highlander Delight’s, and gold went to the Belgian Michele George.
Two bronze medals for the oldest German para-athlete
Dresing, the oldest German para-athlete at 69, won her second bronze medal at the Games in and around Paris with Dooloop, behind the American Fiona Howard and the British Georgia Wilson. “It’s a dream, of course,” she said.
For Mispelkamp, it was the second individual silver medal in Versailles after bronze in the team. “I’m super happy,” she said, raving about her horse: “He’s having so much fun in there and is enjoying it so much, it’s great. A mega horse.” Isabell Nowak came fourth.
Niehues was delighted to win her third medal in her class at the Games in Paris after winning bronze in the individual and team rankings. “It was a great, harmonious and at the same time expressive round from both of them,” said national coach Silke Fütterer-Sommer.
Birthday present for trainer angel
The wheelchair basketball team also secured bronze with a 75:62 victory against Canada. The German team crowned a comeback and gave their coach Michael Engel, who spent his 40th birthday in the Bercy Arena, a third place.
The cyclists Maximilian Jäger and Jana Majunke narrowly missed out on a medal in the road race in Clichy-sous-Bois. Jäger only came fourth in the sprint to the finish, and Majunke also came fourth. Maike Hausberger came ninth after her time trial victory, just under six and a half minutes behind. Michael Teuber came eleventh after taking silver in the individual time trial.
Source: Stern
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