Germany at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Sporting event delegation

Germany competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021. This was their sixteenth consecutive appearance at the Summer Paralympics since 1960.^[1]

Medalists[edit]

Competitors[edit]

The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games:

Archery[edit]

Germany earned one quota place at the 2019 Para Archery World Championships held in Den Bosch, Netherlands.^[2]

Athletics[edit]

Johannes Floors, Niko Kappel, Felix Streng, Markus Rehm, Felix Streng, Sebastian Dietz, Katrin Mueller-Rottgardt, Irmgard Bensusan, Frances Herrmann and Birgit Kober are among the athletes to represent Germany in athletics.

Men’s track

Men’s field

Women’s track

Women’s field

Mixed track

Badminton[edit]

Germany has qualified a total of six para-badminton players for each of the following events into the Paralympic tournament based on the Para Badminton World Rankings.^[3]

Men

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Thomas Wandschneider	Singles WH1	Homhual (THA) L (19–21, 21–17, 12–21)	Lee D-s (KOR) L (21–17, 19–21, 17–21)	—	3	Did not advance
Young-chin Mi		Murayama (JPN) L (8–21, 7–21)	Lee S-s (KOR) L (18–21, 13–21)	—	3	Did not advance
Jan-Niklas Pott	Singles SL4	Lalinakere Yathiraj (IND) L (9–21, 3–21)	Mazur (FRA) L (3–21, 7–21)	Susanto (INA) W (21–15, 23–21)	3	—	Did not advance
Young-chin Mi Thomas Wandschneider	Doubles WH1–WH2	Qu / Mai (CHN) L (10–21, 8–21)	Murayama / Kajiwara (JPN) L (12–21, 9–21)	—	3	—	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Valeska Knoblauch	Singles WH1	Rongen (GER) W (21–7, 21–8)	Suter-Erath (SUI) L (18–21, 15–21)	—	2 Q	Zhang (CHN) L (16–21, 18–21)	Did not advance
Elke Rongen		Knoblauch (GER) L (7–21, 8–21)	Suter-Erath (SUI) L (6–21, 7–21)	—	3	Did not advance
Katrin Seibert	Singles SL4	Parmar (IND) W (23–21, 19–21, 21–15)	Cheng (CHN) L (5–21, 11–21)	—	2	—	Did not advance
Valeska Knoblauch Elke Rongen	Doubles WH1–WH2	Yin / Liu (CHN) L (3–21, 8–21)	Mathez / Suter-Erath (SUI) L (11–21, 11–21)	—	3	—	Did not advance

Mixed

Boris Nicolai qualified for Germany in Individual BC4 events. This is the first time that Germany will compete in this sport.

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opponent	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Boris Nicolai	Individual BC4	Balcová (SVK) L 1–6	2	Did not advance
		Chica (COL) W 7–1
		Cely (COL) L 3–5

Cycling[edit]

Men’s road

Women’s road

Mixed road

Men’s track

Women’s track

Equestrian[edit]

Germany qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics after reaching 1st place in the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games. The team includes Saskia Deutz, Heidemarie Dresing, Regine Mispelkamp and Steffen Zeibig.^[4]

Goalball[edit]

Men[edit]

Group stage

Four German judoka have qualified to compete at the Games.

Men

Women

Paracanoeing[edit]

Germany qualified six paracanoeists.

Paratriathlon[edit]

Athlete	Event	Swim	Trans 1	Bike	Trans 2	Run	Total time	Rank
Martin Schulz	Men’s PTS5	10:28	0:52	28:52	0:47	17:11	58:10

Germany qualified two boats in the single sculls events for the games. Sylvia Pille-Steppat will compete in the women’s single sculls by finishing sixth at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim, Austria and securing one of seventh available place.^[5] Meanwhile, Marcus Klemp will compete in the men’s single sculls events by winning the gold medal at the 2021 Final Paralympic Qualification Regatta in Gavirate, Italy.^[6]

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); R=Repechage

Shooting[edit]

Germany entered four athletes into the Paralympic competition. All of them successfully break the Paralympic qualification at the 2018 WSPS World Championships which was held in Cheongju, South Korea, 2018 WSPS World Cup which was held in Châteauroux, France, 2019 WSPS World Cup which was held in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates and 2019 WSPS World Championships which was held in Sydney, Australia.

Sitting volleyball[edit]

Germany have qualified to compete at the Games in the sitting volleyball.

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage				Semi-final	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Germany men’s	Men’s tournament	Iran L 0–3	China L 1–3	Brazil W 3–1	3	Did not advance	5th Place Match  Egypt L 2–3	6

Men’s tournament[edit]

Group play

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Fifth Place Match

Swimming[edit]

Men

Women

Table tennis[edit]

Germany entered eight athletes into the table tennis competition at the games. Thomas Schmidberger & Valentin Baus qualified from 2019 ITTF European Para Championships which was held in Helsingborg, Sweden and six other athletes via World Ranking allocation.^[7]

Men

Women

Wheelchair basketball[edit]

Germany men’s team qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics after entered top four at the 2019 IWBF Men’s European Championship.

Germany’s women’s team qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics after winning the bronze medal in the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship held in Hamburg, Germany.

Summary

Men[edit]

Group play

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Quarter-final

Seventh place match

Women[edit]

Group play

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Quarter-final

Semi-final

Bronze medal match

Wheelchair fencing[edit]

Maurice Schmidt and Sylvi Tauber have been selected to compete.

Men

Women

Wheelchair tennis[edit]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Katharina Krüger	Women’s singles	—	van Koot (NED) L 3–6, 1–6	Did not advance

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