Five women, four men, five teams and five young athletes are nominated for the election of the para athletes of 2024-the focus is on the gold medal winners of the Paralympics in Paris.
The pre -selection made a nine -person expert body. From Sunday, March 30th to Thursday, April 3, midnight, the vote for the election as a para athlete of 2024 of the German Disabled Sports Association is at www.teamdeutschland-paralympics.de/ election possible.
The nominated athletes
Para athlete:
Maike Hausberger (cycling): Whether train or street – Maike Hausberger is a jack of all. In 2024 she won bronze bronze at the Paralympics in Paris in time trials on the train and then even gold in time trials on the street. She almost even had reached the podium again, and she succeeded in the 4th place in the tracking.
Natascha Hiltrop (sports shooting): The 32-year-old won gold in Paris in the three-position struggle and became the most successful German para sports shooter with her second gold medal and the fourth medal at her fourth Paralympic Games.
Sandra Mikolaschek (table tennis): She has proven her outstanding talent several times this year – Mikolaschek won Paralympic Gold in the singles. In her home club TTV Wimmelburg, she started her sporting career. In 2013 she moved to the table tennis boarding school to Düsseldorf, has been playing for Borussia in the 1st Bundesliga since then and became German champion eight times in a row.
Tanja Scholz (swimming): With her greatest career success, Scholz made the entire German team in Paris: their gold over 150 meters was the first triumph for the German para team in Paris on the fourth day of the competition. The Elmshorner won in the SM4 start class in 2:51:31 minutes.
Elena Semechin (swimming): She is a two-time world champion, four-time European champion, multiple world record holder-and also Paralympic gold medal winner from Tokyo and Paris over 100 meters of chest. In between there was a brain tumor with operation – her comeback and the fight on the way back to old strength have inspired.
Para athletes:
Taliso Engel (swimming): The fans of the dance show “Let’s Dance” now know him, but he is much more successful in the water: Taliso Engel inspired the audience with world record and gold at the Paralympics in Paris 2024: only 1: 01.48 minutes needed the visually impaired athlete for the 100 meter breast.
Markus Rehm (athletics): On him, there was as much pressure than any other German athlete in Paris – because Rehm simply expects the broad audience to be nothing more than title. But the Leverkusener lived up to his favorite role at the Paralympics and got gold – the prosthesis jumper won with a victory width of 8.13 meters. He won the fourth gold in a row at his sixth Paralympics.
Maurice Schmidt (wheelchair fencing): You rarely have such a flow at such a high level in sports: wheelchair fencer Schmidt in the final fight of Paris with the saber at halftime with 7: 8 against the top favorite British Piers Gilliver-and then put a breathtaking 8-0 run on the plane. With 15: 8 he secured a sensational gold medal to the German team shortly before midnight and then cheered: “I don’t know what happened, everything just went perfectly. It worked out every action. What I planned worked. “
Josia pot (swimming): Bronze, silver and gold – he got himself … The outstanding para swimmer has not only become one of the great stars at the Paralympics in Paris because of its three medals. He also inspired with his appearance and commitment: Pot fights the regulation that athletes like him who are missing the arms have to hit the head with the head – because this logically bashes health risks.
The nominees in Para team:
Dressage sports Équipe
Rowing Doppelweier (Hermione Krumbein & Jan Helmich)
Table tennis double (Stephanie Grebe & Juliane Wolf)
Table tennis double (Valentin Baus & Thomas Schmidtberger)
Wheelchair basketball men
The nominees with the Para young athletes:
Gina Böttcher (swimming)
Nele Moos (athletics)
Hermione Krumbein (rowing)
Maurice Schmidt (wheelchair fencing)
Lennart Sass (judo)
Beucher: “Fascinating Paralympics”
Friedhelm Julius Beucher, President of the German Disabled Sports Association, is happy to remember the days in the French capital before the award: “The glamor of the Paralympics is still effective. The enthusiasm was huge, the competitions partly in the heart of Paris and full of fans, the performances fascinating-above all the Paralympics victory and a total of 49 medal success, but also the 63 placements in ranks four to eight.”
ARD presents the choice
The ARD will present the nominees of the election in the coming days both digitally on Sportschau.de and in the midday magazine. The winners will be awarded for the first time in Bonn on Saturday, April 12, 2025, at a ceremony in front of around 300 invited guests.