Monika Sikora

Monika Sikora (born January 1, 1958 in Ennigerloh , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German table tennis player . She won gold several times at the Paralympics and World Championships.

Wheelchair user

Monika Sikora is dependent on a wheelchair. In international competitions it usually starts in competition class IV (trunk muscles defective, walking impaired), occasionally also in class V (lower extremities restricted, leg amputees).

European championships

She achieved her greatest success in the 1990s. In 1991 in Salou she was European champion in the individual and with the German team. She repeated these successes in Hillerod in 1995. In 1997 she won silver in singles and gold with the team at the European Championships in Stockholm.

World championships

Sikora has been nominated for world championships several times. Here she won gold with the team in 1990, 1998 and 2002. In 2002 she was also world champion in singles.

Paralympics

In 1992 she won gold at the Summer Paralympics in Barcelona in individual and silver in team competition. In 1996 she took first place with the team. In 2004 she won the individual competition again, and in 2008 she reached the final with the team.

On June 23, 1993, she was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf for her athletic achievements.

Others

Sikora plays for the BSG Bielefeld club. Since her marriage, she has been running under the name Sikora-Weinmann . In 2009 she won the German championship in singles, doubles and mixed.

Literature and Sources

• Rahul Nelson: Pedestrians have to learn a lot , DTS magazine , 1999/3 pp. 38–40

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V., VIBSS: The Federal President and his tasks in the field of sport ... on June 23, 1993, Federal President von Weizsäcker awarded disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the Olympic and Paralympic Games 1992, with the silver laurel leaf. ..
2. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2009/5 p. 5