Germany at the Rio 2016 Paralympics

Markus Rehm at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships Doha © • Getty Images

·Germany has claimed 660 medals at the Paralympic Summer Games: G188-S237-B235.

·Barcelona 1992 were Germany's most successful Paralympic Games to date, winning 61 gold medals (S51-B59).

·The NPC made its debut at the first ever Paralympic Games in Rome in 1960.

·Germany is in 12th place on the Summer Games' all-time medal table.

·Germany hosted the Paralympic Games in 1972 when the event was held in Heidelberg.

·The NPC has been most successful in swimming, claiming 60 gold, 70 silver and 57 bronze medals. Germany claimed only one gold medal fewer in athletics (G59-S81-B95).

·Athlete Marianne Buggenhagen is Germany's most successful Paralympian in individual events: G9-S2-B2.

·Buggenhagen won a medal at the last six Paralympic Games. Only four years ago in London she failed to win a gold medal.

·Buggenhagen was the oldest woman to claim a medal at the London 2012 Paralympic Games as she grabbed silver in the women's shot put F54-56 aged 59 years (98 days). Only Austria's Stanislaw Fraczyk was older (59 years, 275 days) with his second place in the men's table tennis singles Class 9.

·Germany won 18 gold medals at the London 2012 Paralympic Games across seven sports. Only China won a gold medal in more different sports in London: 95 gold in 11 sports.

·Three athletes won multiple gold medals in London four years ago: Andrea Eskau in the women's road race and time trial H4, Birgit Kober in the women's shot put F32/33/34 and javelin throw F33-34/52-53 and Hannelore Brenner in the mixed dressage championship grade III and freestyle grade III.

·Heiko Kröger, one of Germany's athletes on the IPC's ones-to-watch list for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, is hoping to win a gold medal for the first time in 16 years. The seven-time world sailing champion won his only gold medal at the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games.

·ARD and ZDF are the rights holding broadcasters in Germany for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. More information can be found at rio.sportschau.de and www.zdfsport.de.

Social Media

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Medal Table Paralympic Games

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Total	188	237	235	660
2012	18	26	22	66
2008	14	25	20	59
2004	19	28	31	78
2000	16	41	38	95
1996	40	58	51	149
1992	61	51	59	171
1964	5	2	5	12
1960	15	6	9	30

London 2012 gold medallists

Athlete	Sport	Gold
Hannelore Brenner	Equestrian	2
Andrea Eskau	Cycling	2
Birgit Kober	Athletics	2
Heinrich Popow	Athletics	1
Tobias Graf	Cycling	1
Daniela Schulte	Swimming	1
Kirsten Bruhn	Swimming	1
Markus Rehm	Athletics	1
Annabel Breuer	Wheelchair Basketball	1
Annegret Briessmann	Wheelchair Basketball	1
Annika Zeyen	Wheelchair Basketball	1
Britt Dillmann	Wheelchair Basketball	1
Carmen Brussig	Judo	1
Edina Müller	Wheelchair Basketball	1
Gesche Schünemann	Wheelchair Basketball	1
Heike Friedrich	Wheelchair Basketball	1
Holger Nikelis	Table Tennis	1
Jochen Wollmert	Table Tennis	1
Johanna Welin	Wheelchair Basketball	1
M. Mohnen	Wheelchair Basketball	1
Mareike Adermann	Wheelchair Basketball	1
Maria Kühn	Wheelchair Basketball	1
Maya Lindholm	Wheelchair Basketball	1
Michael Teuber	Cycling	1
Ramona Brussig	Judo	1
Sebastian Dietz	Athletics	1