Etiket: disabled sports
Paralympics in Beijing – just missed gold: Forster wins para silver again
Yanqing (AP) – Second start, second silver medal: monoskier Anna-Lena Forster had to admit defeat to her Japanese rival Momoka Muraoka on the second day of competition at the Paralympics…
Silver and Bronze for Biathlon Youngsters
Zhangjiakou (dpa) – Linn Kazmaier, who is only 15 years old, and Leonie Walter, who is three years older, won silver and bronze in biathlon at the Paralympics. The youngest…
Forster wins first German Paralympics medal
Yanqing (AP) – Monoskier Anna-Lena Forster has won the first German medal at the Paralympics in Beijing. The 26-year-old finished second in the downhill on Saturday and secured silver on…
15 hours after the opening: flag bearer Fleig is fifth
Zhangjiakou (dpa) – 15 hours after the opening ceremony, flag bearer Martin Fleig missed a medal on his first start at the Paralympics in Beijing. The biathlete from Freiburg finished…
First biathlon medal missed: Wicker is fifth
Zhangjiakou (dpa) – Anja Wicker missed the first German medal in the first biathlon competition at the Paralympics in Beijing. In the absence of Andrea Eskau, who was absent for…
Two German athletes not there due to vaccination status
Beijing (AP) – President Friedhelm Julius Beucher of the German Disabled Sports Association (DBS) has confirmed that two athletes are not taking part in the Paralympics in Beijing because of…
Winter Games in Beijing – Paralympics: the sun blinds visually impaired athletes
Beijing (dpa) – The unusual lighting conditions at the Paralympics in Beijing are of particular concern to the visually impaired athletes before the competitions begin on Saturday. “It’s very bright.…
Winter Games in Beijing: Record number of women at Paralympics
Beijing (AP) – More women than ever before are taking part in the Winter Paralympics in Beijing. The IPC announced a few hours before the opening ceremony that 138 of…
Paralympics in Beijing – DBS boss: Start of Russian athletes “wrong signal”
Beijing (dpa) – The German Disabled Sports Association (DBS) reacted with great incomprehension to the decision of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to take…
Four German flag bearers wanted from a 17-person team
Beijing (dpa) – A quarter of the German athletes will carry the German flag at the opening or closing ceremonies of the Winter Paralympics in Beijing starting on Friday. After…