Winter Paralympics 2010 / Participant (Germany)
GER
13 | 5 | 6th |
Germany sentsix athletes and fourteen athletes to the starting line at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver . The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the Nordic cross-country skier and biathlete Frank Höfle .
The most successful athletes were Verena Bentele (5 gold medals), Gerd Schönfelder (4 × gold, 1 × silver), Martin Braxenthaler (3 × gold, 1 × silver) and Wilhelm Brem (1 × gold).
successes
Medal table
rank | sport | G | S. | B. | total |
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1 | Alpine skiing | 7th | 4th | 4th | 15th |
2 | biathlon | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
3 | Cross-country skiing | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4th |
total | 13 | 5 | 6th | 24 |
Medalist
Success Bonuses
For particularly successful athletes, the Deutsche Sporthilfe Foundation awarded success bonuses for places one to eight, as was the case with previous games.
Participants by sport
Alpine skiing
Women:
Men's:
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Martin Braxenthaler
- Slalom, sitting: gold
- Giant slalom, sitting: gold
- Downhill, sitting: DNF
- Super-G, sitting: silver
- Great combination, sitting: gold
- Gerd Gradwohl & Karl-Heinz Vachenauer (Guide)
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Franz Hanfstingl
- Slalom, sitting: DNF
- Downhill, sitting: 14th place
- Super-G, sitting: 17th place
- Super combination, sitting: 11th place
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Thomas Nolte
- Giant slalom, sitting: 13th place
- Downhill, sitting: 4th place
- Super-G, sitting: 14th place
- Super combination, standing: DSQ
- Gerd Schönfelder
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Kevin Wermeester
- Slalom, standing: 21st place
- Downhill, standing: DNF
- Super-G, standing: 23rd place
- Great combination, standing: 7th place
Nordic skiing ( biathlon and cross-country skiing )
Women:
- Verena Bentele & Thomas Friedrich (Guide)
- Andrea Eskau
Men's:
- Wilhelm Brem & Florian Grimm (Guide)
- Josef Giesen
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Frank Höfle & Johannes Wachlin (Guide)
- Cross-country skiing: 20 km freestyle, visually impaired: 5th place
- Cross-country skiing: 10 km classic, visually impaired: 7th place
- Cross-country skiing: 1 km classic sprint, visually impaired: 4th place
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Thomas Oelsner
- Biathlon: 12.5 km, standing: 10th place
- Cross-country skiing: 20 km freestyle, standing: 10th place
- Cross-country skiing: 10 km classic, standing: 21st place
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Tino Uhlig
- Cross-country skiing: 20 km freestyle, standing: 12th place
- Cross-country skiing: 10 km classic, standing: 5th place
Wheelchair curling
Individual evidence
- ↑ Höfle wears the German flag at Paralympics . In: Focus Online , March 10, 2010. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
Web links
- Official website of the German national team for disabled people
- Official site of the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Games (Engl.)