The German table tennis pros Dang Qiu and Nina Mittelham are just one win away from qualifying for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. At the European Games in Kraków, both reached the final of the mixed competition on Sunday (June 25, 2023).
The individual European champions from Borussia Düsseldorf and the runners-up at the European Championships from TTC Berlin Eastside defeated the Spanish duo Alvaro Robles/Maria Xiao in the semifinals in 3:1 sets. In table tennis there is still a men’s singles, a women’s singles and a team competition in Kraków. Only in mixed, the European Games also serve as an Olympic qualification.
Medals for German shooters
The recurve archers Michelle Kroppen and Florian Unruh meanwhile secured bronze in the small mixed final, followed a little later by archer Nadine Messerschmidt in the skeet.
For Kroppen/Unruh, who beat Macedonia 5:4, it was the second common precious metal within a year. At the European Championships, which took place in Munich last year as a rival event to the European Games, the two had won silver in recurve mixed.
In the women’s skeet final, Messerschmidt was only beaten by Italy’s Martina Bartolomei and Greece’s Emmanouela Katzouraki.