Olympia 2018: DBS with 20 athletes at the Paralympics – farewell by Steinmeier

Led by Para skier Anna Schaffelhuber, 20 athletes of the German Disabled Sports Association (DBS) will fly to the Paralympics in Pyeongchang (9th place) on Sunday. till 18. March). The German team will be bid farewell at Frankfurt/Main Airport by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in the direction of South Korea.

“This is an important and clear signal. Our team sees this as a great honour when the first man in the state comes to fly,”DBS President Friedhelm Julius Beucher told SID.

The departure of the team around “Golden Girl” Schaffelhuber, who won five gold medals in Sochi in 2014, is planned for about 6 pm. Arrival in South Korea will be on Monday noon. Whoever will attend the opening ceremony on 9. The German flag will be carried into the stadium in March, is still open.

Team D” comprises eleven athletes and nine athletes. In addition, there are four accompanying runners in the sports of Para Ski alpine and Para Ski Nordic. Nine athletes will celebrate their premiere at the Paralympics.

At the Winter Paralympics 2014 in Sochi, Germany had won 15 medals and was second behind Russia (80) in the medal ranking. Anna Schaffelhuber from TSV Bayerbach was the most successful German athlete with five gold medals. The DBS had 13 athletes in Sochi – the German Paralympic Team for Pyeongchang 2018:

Alpine skiing paragliding: Anna-Lena Forster (Radolfzell), Georg Kreiter (Murnau), Thomas Nolte (Braunschweig), Anna-Maria Rieder (Murnau), Noemi Ristau (Marburg), Andrea Rothfuss (Mittelal), Anna Schaffelhuber (Bayerbach); accompanying runner: Lucien Gerkau (Ristau)

Para Ski nordic: Alexander Ehler (Kirchzarten), Andrea Eskau (Magdeburg), Martin Fleig (Freiburg), Vivian Hösch (Freiburg), Clara Klug (Munich), Steffen Lehmker (Clausthal-Zellerfeld), Nico Messinger (Freiburg), Anja Wicker (Stuttgart); accompanying runner: Martin Härtl (Klug), Lutz Klausmann (Messinger), Florian

Wheelchair curling: Wolf Meißner (feet), Heike Melchior (Frankfurt), Harald Pavel (Schwenningen), Christiane Putzich (feet), Martin Schlitt (Frankfurt)