Paralympics: First Gold Medals for Team D

Triathlet Martin Schulz has won the first German gold at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo on the fifth day of the competition. The 31-year-old came after 750m swimming, 20 km cycling and 5 km walk to the goal of 45 seconds in front of the British George Peasgood and got in 58:10 minutes in the starting class PTS5 to Rio his second Paralympics victory .

Everything went well, Schulz said, In the evening before the race, my coach and me in the room realized that we are lucky enough to be the first and I can get the first gold. That has pushed him again on the last running kilometer.

Friedhelm Julius Boucher was facilitated after the grown balance of the first few days. Thus, our first gold rocket was ignited, said the President of the German Disabled Sports Association (DBS): Martin repeated the triumph of Rio, that's a great performance. That's why we're all so happy and so glad. It's really What dropped.

Previously, the Team of DBS had won silver twice and five times bronze. Schulz rose from the water with a residue of 1:01 minutes behind Peasgood and worked on the wheel at temperatures beyond the 30 degrees and a humidity of over 80 percent up to 38 seconds. Already at the beginning of the third of four round round rounds, the three-time world champion finally moved past the burglary British.

Schulz had particularly prepared for the extreme conditions. I occasionally set up my bike in the swimming pool, the Leipziger told Japan before departure: For this purpose, I made units in the heat tent with humidifiers and radiant heaters. There were 38 degrees and 80 percent humidity.

Table tennis player Building Gold at Paralympics

Table tennis player Valentin Baus has also realized his gold room. The 25-year-old won in the dramatic new edition of Rio against the Chinese Cao Ningning despite the interim residue with 3: 2 and thus took in the start class 5 revenge for the bankruptcy of 2016. It is the first gold for the German table tennis players since London 2012.

You just can not describe that. We worked for it for so long, said Baus, It's an indescribable feeling. Thus, Germany finishes the individual competitions in the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium with a complete medal set.

Already on Saturday, Thomas Schmidberger had lost his final against his Chinese permanent rival fan of Penfeng in the starting class. 2: 3. Stephanie Grebe won after her 0: 3 defeat in the semifinals against the European Champion of Maliak Alijewa from the Russian Paralympic Committee Bronze. From Tuesday it goes on with the team competitions.

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