| Germany at the 1996 Summer Paralympics | |
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| IPC code | GER |
| NPC | National Paralympic Committee Germany |
| Website | www |
| in Atlanta | |
| Competitors | 231 (153 men and 78 women) |
| Medals Ranked 3rd |
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| Summer Paralympics appearances (overview) | |
| Other related appearances | |
 East Germany (1984) | |
231 athletes (153 men and 78 women) from Germany competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, United States. [1]
| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
 Gold | Hermann Nortmann Mario Oehme Udo Wolf | Archery | Men's teams W1/W2 |
| Gold | Winfried Sigg | Athletics | Men's 400m T52 |
| Gold | Heinrich Koeberle | Athletics | Men's marathon T50 |
| Gold | Male athletes | Athletics | Men's 4 × 100 m relay T52-53 |
| Gold | Andreas Mueller | Athletics | Men's discus F32-33 |
| Gold | Joerg Schiedek | Athletics | Men's javelin F46 |
| Gold | Horst Beyer | Athletics | Men's pentathlon P42 |
| Gold | Marianne Buggenhagen | Athletics | Women's discus F53-54 |
| Gold | Martina Willing | Athletics | Women's javelin F53-54 |
| Gold | Birgit Pohl | Athletics | Women's shot put F32-33 |
| Gold | Marianne Buggenhagen | Athletics | Women's shot put F53-54 |
| Gold | Birgit Dreiszis | Equestrian | Mixed kur trot grade I |
| Gold | Martina Bethke Cornelia Dietz Gudula Demmelhuber Edda Ewert Christel Bettinger Christine Krause | Goalball | Women's team |
| Gold | Bernd Vogel | Powerlifting | Men's 82.5 kg |
| Gold | Josef Neumaier | Shooting | Men's free rifle 3x40 SH1 |
| Gold | Christian Fritsche | Swimming | Men's 50m breaststroke SB3 |
| Gold | Holger Kimmig | Swimming | Men's 100m backstroke S8 |
| Gold | Stefan Loeffler | Swimming | Men's 100m breaststroke SB10 |
| Gold | Lars Lürig | Swimming | Men's 200m freestyle S5 |
| Gold | Holger Kimmig Detlef Schmidt Oliver Anders Stefan Loeffler | Swimming | Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle S7-10 |
| Gold | Holger Kimmig Stefan Loeffler Detlef Schmidt Oliver Anders | Swimming | Men's 4 × 100 m medley S7-10 |
| Gold | Kay Espenhayn | Swimming | Women's 50m backstroke S4 |
| Gold | Maria Goetze | Swimming | Women's 50m butterfly S6 |
| Gold | Yvonne Hopf | Swimming | Women's 50m freestyle B3 |
| Gold | Claudia Hengst | Swimming | Women's 50m freestyle S10 |
| Gold | Daniela Pohl | Swimming | Women's 50m freestyle S7 |
| Gold | Yvonne Hopf | Swimming | Women's 100m backstroke B3 |
| Gold | Yvonne Hopf | Swimming | Women's 100m freestyle B3 |
| Gold | Claudia Hengst | Swimming | Women's 100m freestyle S10 |
| Gold | Daniela Pohl | Swimming | Women's 100m freestyle S7 |
| Gold | Kay Espenhayn | Swimming | Women's 150m medley SM4 |
| Gold | Kay Espenhayn | Swimming | Women's 200m freestyle S4 |
| Gold | Daniela Roehle Birgit Beeker Daniela Henke Yvonne Hopf | Swimming | Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle B1-3 |
| Gold | Daniela Roehle Birgit Beeker Yvonne Hopf Daniela Henke | Swimming | Women's 4 × 100 m medley B1-3 |
| Gold | Thomas Kreidel | Table tennis | Men's open 1-5 |
| Gold | Thomas Kurfess Jochen Wollmert Thomas Schmitt Werner Maissenbacher | Table tennis | Men's team 6-8 |
| Gold | Christiane Pape | Table tennis | Women's open 1-5 |
| Gold | Monika Bartheidel Monika Sikora Gisela Pohle Christiane Pape | Table tennis | Women's teams 3-5 |
| Gold | Rudolf Schwietering Pavo Grgic Manfred Kohl Elmar Sommer Jens Altmann Stefan Kaiser Josef Weissenfels Oliver Mueller Andreas Johann Bernard Schmidl Josef Giebel | Volleyball | Men's standing team |
| Gold | Silke Schwarz | Wheelchair fencing | Women's épée individual A |
 Silver | Peter Haber | Athletics | Men's 100m T36 |
| Silver | Peter Haber | Athletics | Men's 200m T36 |
| Silver | Markus Pilz | Athletics | Men's 400m T52 |
| Silver | Gerd Franzka Joerg Trippen-Hilgers Ingo Geffers Holger Geffers | Athletics | Men's 4x100 relay T10-12 |
| Silver | Thomas Validis Holger Geffers Gerd Franzka Ingo Geffers | Athletics | Men's 4 × 400 m relay T10-12 |
| Silver | Peter Haber | Athletics | Men's long jump F34-37 |
| Silver | Gunther Belitz | Athletics | Men's long jump F42 |
| Silver | Florian Bohl | Athletics | Men's triple jump F45-46 |
| Silver | Siegmund Turteltaube | Athletics | Men's discus F10 |
| Silver | Horst Beyer | Athletics | Men's discus F42 |
| Silver | Siegmund Hegeholz | Athletics | Men's javelin F11 |
| Silver | Andreas Mueller | Athletics | Men's shot put F32-33 |
| Silver | Detlef Eckert | Athletics | Men's shot put F42 |
| Silver | Joerg Frischmann | Athletics | Men's shot put F43-44 |
| Silver | Rayk Haucke | Athletics | Men's pentathlon P10 |
| Silver | Claire Brunotte | Athletics | Women's 100m T11 |
| Silver | Isabelle Foerder | Athletics | Women's 100m T36-37 |
| Silver | Jessica Sachse | Athletics | Women's 100m T42-46 |
| Silver | Claire Brunotte | Athletics | Women's 200m T11 |
| Silver | Isabelle Foerder | Athletics | Women's 200m T34-37 |
| Silver | Claudia Meier | Athletics | Women's 800m T10-11 |
| Silver | Claudia Meier | Athletics | Women's 1500m T10-11 |
| Silver | Claudia Meier | Athletics | Women's 3000m T10-11 |
| Silver | Britta Jaenicke | Athletics | Women's shot put F42-44/46 |
| Silver | Andreas Hillers | Cycling | Mixed 1500m time trial bicycle CP2 |
| Silver | Wolfgang Mahler | Cycling | Mixed 65/75k bicycle LC1 |
| Silver | Elfriede Ranz Ursula Egner | Cycling | Women's time trial tandem open |
| Silver | Angelika Trabert | Equestrian | Mixed dressage grade II |
| Silver | Angelika Trabert | Equestrian | Kur trot grade II |
| Silver | Josef Neumaier | Shooting | Men's air rifle 3x40 SH1 |
| Silver | Christian Fritsche | Swimming | Men's 50m butterfly S4 |
| Silver | Lars Lürig | Swimming | Men's 50m freestyle S5 |
| Silver | Stefan Loeffler | Swimming | Men's 50m freestyle S10 |
| Silver | Lars Lürig | Swimming | Men's 100m freestyle S5 |
| Silver | Holger Kimmig | Swimming | Men's 100m freestyle S8 |
| Silver | Stefan Loeffler | Swimming | Men's 100m freestyle S10 |
| Silver | Holger Kimmig | Swimming | Men's 200m medley SM8 |
| Silver | Stefan Loeffler | Swimming | Men's 400m freestyle S10 |
| Silver | Holger Kimmig | Swimming | Men's 400m freestyle S8 |
| Silver | Beate Schretzmann | Swimming | Women's 50m butterfly S6 |
| Silver | Daniela Henke | Swimming | Women's 50m freestyle B3 |
| Silver | Kay Espenhayn | Swimming | Women's 50m freestyle S4 |
| Silver | Daniela Henke | Swimming | Women's 100m breaststroke B3 |
| Silver | Beate Schretzmann | Swimming | Women's 100m breaststroke SB7 |
| Silver | Daniela Henke | Swimming | Women's 100m butterfly B3 |
| Silver | Daniela Roehle | Swimming | Women's 100m freestyle B1 |
| Silver | Daniela Henke | Swimming | Women's 100m freestyle B3 |
| Silver | Annke Conradi | Swimming | Women's 100m freestyle S3 |
| Silver | Kay Espenhayn | Swimming | Women's 100m freestyle S4 |
| Silver | Daniela Roehle | Swimming | Women's 200m medley B1 |
| Silver | Yvonne Hopf | Swimming | Women's 200m medley B3 |
| Silver | Maria Goetze | Swimming | Women's 200m medley SM6 |
| Silver | Daniela Pohl Claudia Hengst Anna Brinck Beate Lobenstein | Swimming | Women's 4 × 100 m medley S7-10 |
| Silver | Jochen Wollmert | Table tennis | Men's singles 7 |
| Silver | Monika Bartheidel | Table tennis | Women's singles 3 |
| Silver | Christiane Pape | Table tennis | Women's singles 4 |
| Silver | Wilfried Lipinski | Wheelchair fencing | Men's sabre individual A |
| Silver | Esther Weber-Kranz Jutta Jacob Silke Schwarz Monika Hertrich | Wheelchair fencing | Women's épée team |
 Bronze | Udo Wolf | Archery | Men's individual W2 |
| Bronze | Holger Geffers | Athletics | Men's 200m T11 |
| Bronze | Lothar Overesch | Athletics | Men's 200m T42 |
| Bronze | Wolfgang Petersen | Athletics | Men's 200m T52 |
| Bronze | Ingo Geffers | Athletics | Men's 400m T11 |
| Bronze | Juergen Kern | Athletics | Men's high jump F42-44 |
| Bronze | Ulrich Striegel | Athletics | Men's triple jump F12 |
| Bronze | Klaus Kulla | Athletics | Men's discus F43-44 |
| Bronze | Thomas Validis | Athletics | Men's javelin F12 |
| Bronze | Roberto Simonazzi | Athletics | Men's javelin F42 |
| Bronze | Dirk Mimberg | Athletics | Men's javelin F43-44 |
| Bronze | Horst Beyer | Athletics | Men's shot put F42 |
| Bronze | Cornelia Teubner | Athletics | Women's 100m T34-35 |
| Bronze | Lily Anggreny | Athletics | Women's 10000m T52-53 |
| Bronze | Carmen Storch | Athletics | Women's long jump F34-37 |
| Bronze | Britta Jaenicke | Athletics | Women's discus F42-44/46 |
| Bronze | Martina Willing | Athletics | Women's discus F53-54 |
| Bronze | Marianne Buggenhagen | Athletics | Women's javelin F53-54 |
| Bronze | Martina Willing | Athletics | Women's shot put F53-54 |
| Bronze | Martin Boesch Frank Hoefle | Cycling | Men's 100/120k tandem open |
| Bronze | Roland Hartmann | Shooting | Mixed sport pistol SH1 |
| Bronze | Alfred Berniger | Shooting | Men's air rifle 3x40m SH1 |
| Bronze | Sabine Brogle | Shooting | Women's air rifle 3x20 SH1 |
| Bronze | Franz Falke | Shooting | Men's air rifle standing SH1 |
| Bronze | Sabine Brogle | Shooting | Women's standard rifle 3x20 SH1 |
| Bronze | Holger Kimmig | Swimming | Men's 50m freestyle S8 |
| Bronze | Geert Jaehrig | Swimming | Men's 100m backstroke S8 |
| Bronze | Detlef Schmidt | Swimming | Men's 100m backstroke S9 |
| Bronze | Mario Kofler | Swimming | Men's 100m breaststroke SB10 |
| Bronze | Matthias Schlubeck | Swimming | Men's 100m breaststroke SB6 |
| Bronze | Stefan Loeffler | Swimming | Men's 200m medley SM10 |
| Bronze | Thomas Grimm | Swimming | Men's 200m medley SM6 |
| Bronze | Annke Conradi | Swimming | Women's 50m backstroke S3 |
| Bronze | Kay Espenhayn | Swimming | Women's 50m breaststroke SB3 |
| Bronze | Annke Conradi | Swimming | Women's 50m freestyle S3 |
| Bronze | Birgit Beeker | Swimming | Women's 200m medley B2 |
| Bronze | Claudia Hengst | Swimming | Women's 200m medley SM10 |
| Bronze | Claudia Hengst | Swimming | Women's 400m freestyle S10 |
| Bronze | Beate Lobenstein Daniela Pohl Stephanie Puetz Claudia Hengst | Swimming | Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle S7-10 |
| Bronze | Thomas Kriedel | Table tennis | Men's singles 4 |
| Bronze | Thomas Kurfess | Table tennis | Men's singles 7 |
| Bronze | Dieter Essbach Werner Knaak Udo Pohle Otto Vilsmeier | Table tennis | Men's team 1-2 |
| Bronze | Jan Guertler Werner Dorr | Table tennis | Men's teams 3 |
| Bronze | Bernd Mueller Peter Faehnrich Andre Schmandt | Table tennis | Men's teams 9-10 |
| Bronze | Baerbel Rode | Table tennis | Women's singles 1-2 |
| Bronze | Gisela Pohle | Table tennis | Women's singles 5 |
| Bronze | Wilfried Lipinski | Wheelchair fencing | Men's épée individual A |
| Bronze | Maximilian Miller Uwe Bartmann Wilfried Lipinski Wolfgang Kempf | Wheelchair fencing | Men's sabre team |
| Bronze | Esther Weber-Kranz | Wheelchair fencing | Women's épée individual B |
| Bronze | Esther Weber-Kranz | Wheelchair fencing | Women's foil individual B |
| Bronze | Esther Weber-Kranz Jutta Jacob Silke Schwarz Monika Hertrich | Wheelchair fencing | Women's foil team |
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Athletics at the 1996 Summer Paralympics consisted of 210 events, 155 for men and 55 for women.
Cycling at the 1996 Summer Paralympics consisted of 23 events in two disciplines, road cycling and track cycling.
Equestrian events at the 1996 Summer Paralympics consisted of nine events. All events were mixed, meaning that men and women competed together.
Judo at the 1996 Summer Paralympics consisted of seven men's events.
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