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| National Paralympic Committee | |
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| Country |  Germany |
| Code | GER |
| Continental Association | EPC |
| President | Friedhelm Julius Beucher [1] |
| Website | www.dbs-npc.de |
National Paralympic Committee Germany (ger. Deutsche Behindertensportverband e.V. (DBS)) is responsible for Germany's participation in the Paralympic Games.
The DBS represents rehabilitation sports, popular sports, and professional sports. [2]
To raise awareness, players from Bundesliga club FC Bayern Munich along with players from the Football 5-a-side national team and students from the St. Anna Gymnasiums in Augsburg participated in a promotional training session. [3]
Germany participated in the ninth Winter Paralympics in Turin, Italy.
The German Olympic Sports Confederation was founded on 20 May 2006 by a merger of the Deutscher Sportbund (DSB), and the Nationales Olympisches Komitee für Deutschland (NOK) which dates back to 1895, the year it was founded and recognized as NOC by the IOC.
Germany competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom, from 29 August to 9 September 2012. 150 German athletes, 88 men and 62 women, participated in London.
Mathias Mester is a Paralympian athlete from Germany competing mainly in category F40 throwing events.
Clemens Andreas Rapp is a German swimmer. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 200 m freestyle, finishing in 24th place in the heats, failing to qualify for the semifinals. His team was placed fourth in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay.
Kristina Hillmann is a German field hockey player. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed for the Germany women's national field hockey team in the women's event.
Katharina Otte is a German field hockey player. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed for the Germany women's national field hockey team in the women's event.
Lisa Altenburg is a German field hockey player. She was part of the German bronze medal winning team at the 2016 Olympic Games and also played for Germany at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She is the niece of Birgit Hahn who also played Olympic hockey for Germany.
Céline Wilde is a German field hockey player. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed for the Germany women's national field hockey team in the women's event.
Anke Brockmann is a German field hockey player. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed for the Germany women's national field hockey team in the women's event.
Bastian Steger is a German table tennis player. He competed for Germany at the 2012 Summer Olympics where he won a bronze medal in the team event. He also won the bronze medal in the men's team event during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Christopher George Wesley is a German former field hockey player who played as a midfielder or forward. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for the national team in the men's tournament.
Mario Hochberg was a Paralympic weightlifter for Germany. His coach was Thomas Mersdorf and he is a sports instructor and physiotherapist head coach weightlifting in DBS.
Germany competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016. The first places the team qualified were for four athletes in sailing events. They also qualified athletes in archery, cycling, equestrian, paracanoeing, paratriathlon, rowing and wheelchair basketball.
Ferdinand Gerz is a German sailor, who specialized in two-person dinghy (470) class. He represented Germany, along with his partner Patrick Follmann, in the men's 470 class at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and has also been training throughout most of his sporting career at Deutscher Touring Yacht Club in Tutzing.
The 2006 FIFA World Cup Organizing Committee organized the World Cup in Germany. President of OK was Franz Beckenbauer, who also acted as the official representative and chairman of the German World Cup bid.
Mats Jürgen Grambusch is a German field hockey player who plays as a midfielder or forward for Rot-Weiss Köln and the Germany national team.
Martin Detlef Zwicker is a German field hockey player who plays as a midfielder or forward for Berliner HC and the German national team.
Henrike Handrup is a German former Paralympic cyclist who competes at international elite competitions. She is a World road racing champion and a track bronze medalist has competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics but did not medal.
Simone Briese-Baetke is a German wheelchair fencer in épée, foil and saber. She won a silver medal at the paralympics.
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