Winter Paralympics 2018 / Participant (Germany)

GER

7th	8th	4th

Germany took part in the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang from March 9 to 18, 2018 with 24 athletes (including the four accompanying runners), five of them curlers (three men, two women), eight alpine skiers (three men, five women) and eleven cross-country skiers and biathletes (seven men, four women).

The farewell to the German Paralympics team by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier took place on March 4th at Frankfurt Airport . Karl Quade was again Chef de Mission of the German team.

With seven gold, eight silver and four bronze Germany occupied by the end of this Paralympics fifth place in the medal table .

Medalist

gold

Surname	sport	competition
Andrea Eskau	biathlon	10 km sitting
Andrea Eskau	biathlon	12.5 km sitting
Martin Fleig	biathlon	15 km sitting
Anna-Lena Forster	Alpine skiing	Great combination sitting
Anna-Lena Forster	Alpine skiing	Sitting slalom
Anna Schaffelhuber	Alpine skiing	Seated departure
Anna Schaffelhuber	Alpine skiing	Sitting Super-G

silver

Surname	sport	competition
Andrea Eskau	Cross-country skiing	5 km sitting
Andrea Eskau	Cross-country skiing	12 km sitting
Andrea Eskau	Cross-country skiing	Sprint 1.1 km seated
Andrea Rothfuss	Alpine skiing	Downhill standing
Andrea Rothfuss	Alpine skiing	Standing giant slalom
Andrea Rothfuss	Alpine skiing	Standing Super-G
Andrea Rothfuss	Alpine skiing	Great combination standing
Anna Schaffelhuber	Alpine skiing	Great combination sitting

bronze

Surname	sport	competition
Clara Klug	biathlon	10 km visually impaired
Clara Klug	biathlon	12.5 km visually impaired
Andrea Rothfuss	Alpine skiing	Standing slalom
Steffen Lehmker Andrea Eskau Alexander Ehler	Cross-country skiing	Mixed relay 4 × 2.5 km

Participants by sport

Curling

• Wolf Meissner
• Heike Melchior
• Harry Pavel
• Christiane Putzich
• Martin Schlitt

Alpine skiing

• Anna-Lena Forster
• Lucien Gerkau (Guide from Noemi Ristau)
• Georg Kreiter
• Thomas Nolte
• Anna-Maria Rieder
• Noemi Ristau
• Andrea Rothfuss
• Anna Schaffelhuber

Cross-country skiing

• Alexander Ehler
• Andrea Eskau
• Martin Fleig
• Martin Härtl (Guide from Clara Klug)
• Vivian Hösch
• Lutz Klausmann (Guide from Nico Messinger)
• Clara Klug
• Steffen Lehmker
• Nico Messinger
• Florian Schillinger (Guide from Vivian Hösch)
• Anja Wicker

Web links

• Official website of the German Paralympic Team

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pyeongchang 2018 - Athletes. German Paralympic Team, accessed March 3, 2018 . 
2. ↑ "Your whole country is keeping its fingers crossed." Steinmeier said goodbye to German Paralympics team. T-online.de , March 4, 2017, accessed on March 4, 2018 . 
3. ↑ A powerful team for the Paralympics. DBS with 20 athletes in Pyeongchang at the start. ZDFmediathek , accessed on March 3, 2018 .