The German team each includes nine athletes, so there are two people less than in Pyongyang. There are also six guides. With Andrea Esau, six-fold medal winner of 2018, the Team D must cope with a serious failure for the games from 4 to 13 March.
"Unfortunately, for health reasons, I can not be at the Paralympics at the start," said the 50-year-old, "That's a pity, but not a world of overall. I'm just not in the physical condition to compete at the highest level in sporting competition" In the absence of Esau and after the end of the career of Anna Schaffelhuber, Anna-Lena Forster, according to their four World Cup titles of Lille hammer, carries the largest German hopes for the games in January.
from 15 to 52
Recent German participant is the 15-year-old ski-Nordic Line Kandahar, at the age of 52, your discipline Alexander Euler is the oldest German in the games. While nine athletes and athletes celebrate their Paralympics debut, it's already the fifth winter games for Para Alpine driver Andrea Roth fuss. Overall, the DBS sends a team in the upheaval, almost half of the team is 22 years or younger.
"It is a pity that we could not exploit all possible starting places due to injuries and diseases," said Chef de Mission Karl Quad. DBS President Fried helm Julius Courier called the games as "the largest organizational challenge we had at Paralympics. Priority is priority: Lying healthy, comply with rules and come back to healthy."
Germany will be represented in the ski run, biathlon, ski alpine and snowboard, only in Para Hockey and Wheelchair Curling, the teams missed the qualification. A yield of 19 medals as in Pyongyang four years ago is not to be expected without Schaffelhuber and Esau, which then won nine times noble metal at that time.
The German bid for the Paralympics at a glance
Para Ski Alpine (6 Starter +1 Guide): Anna-Lena Forster (Radolfzell), Christoph Glitzier (Newmarket), Leander Press (Friedberg), Anna-Maria Raider (Murray), Noemi Rita (Marburg), Andrea Roth fuss (Mittal-Obertal) - accompaniment: Paula Bronze (Marburg)
Para Ski Nordic (9 + 5): Alexander Euler (Kirchzarten), Martin Flag (Freiburg), Line Kandahar (Homestead), Clara Plug (Munich), Marco Maier (Kirchzarten), Nico Messenger (Freiburg), Johanna Recktenwald (Saarland), Leonie Walter (St. Peter), Anja Wicker (Stuttgart) - Guides: Florian Baumann (Hinged), Valentin Hang (Kirchzarten), Martin Hart (Nesselwang), Permit Streaker (Kirchzarten), Robin Underlie (Total)
Para Snowboard (3): Matthias Keller (Oldenburg), Manuel New, Christian Schmidt (both Garnering)
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