The tenth German gold medal goes to a table tennis player. The women’s dressage athletes become medal collectors in the park of the Palace of Versailles. There is excitement in athletics.
There was one gold, four silver and two bronze medals – and a big upset: The penultimate day of the Paralympics in Paris was once again something special. Sandra Mikolaschek won the tenth gold in table tennis for the German Disabled Sports Association. In the final, the 27-year-old defeated Serbian Borislava Peric-Rankovic 3:1. “I don’t really like being the person who is the center of attention. But I enjoyed it anyway,” said Mikolaschek after her triumph.
Prosthetic star Felix Streng actually won silver in the 200 meters at the Stade de France, but was disqualified a short time later for crossing the line in the curve during the run. “It’s actually something that shouldn’t happen to me as an athlete,” said the 29-year-old angrily. “It was a finger’s width. It wasn’t necessary at all.”
Things went better for the German dressage riders. They 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.
Silver also in swimming
Swimmer Gina Böttcher won a surprising silver medal. The 23-year-old from Potsdam swam the 50-meter backstroke in 51.40 seconds and was only beaten by the Greek Alexandra Stamatopoulou (50.12 seconds). “I wasn’t expecting that. I was hoping for bronze, but of course I’m very happy with silver,” said Böttcher.
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.
Athlete Lindy Ave surprisingly won bronze in the 400 metres at the Stade de France. The 26-year-old finished in 1:00.37 minutes behind Colombian Karen Tatiana Palomeque Moreno (58.67 seconds/world record) and Hungarian Luca Ekler (59.35).
Source: Stern
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