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Born | Nümbrecht, West Germany | 18 February 1965||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Home town | Bonn, Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Para table tennis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability | Femur fibula ulna syndrome | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | C6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Rainer Schmidt (born 18 February 1965) [1] is a retired German para table tennis player who played in international level events. He participated in four Summer Paralympic Games and has won three Paralympic titles. He has also won five World titles and nine European titles in mostly team events with Jochen Wollmert. [2] [3]
During his sporting career, he was a left handed player with a metal bar attached onto his left upper arm and has a prosthetic on his right leg. [4]
Holger Nikelis is a German table tennis player. He won a gold medal in the singles event and a bronze in the team event at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. He also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. He has also won other medals and championships in disabled table tennis. He was world number one in his category in September 2013.
Thu Françoise Kamkasomphou is a Laotian-French para table tennis player. She has won eight Paralympic medals for France.
Lisa Daniela "Danni" Di Toro is an Australian wheelchair tennis and para table tennis player. Di Toro was the 2010 French Open doubles champion and has also been the Masters double champion. In singles, Di Toro is the former world number one and two time masters finalist. In 2015, she moved to para-table tennis and represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, where she was team captain with Kurt Fearnley. At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, her seventh Paralympics, she was the team captain and Opening Ceremony flag bearer with Ryley Batt. She competed at her eight Paralympics in Paris.
Melissa Tapper is an Australian table tennis player. After competing at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, she represented Australia at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in elite non-Paralympic competition. In March 2016, she became the first Australian athlete to qualify for both the Summer Olympics and Summer Paralympics.
Marc Philippe Ledoux is a Belgian Paralympic table tennis player with cerebral palsy. His father, Alain Ledoux, also competed in Paralympic table tennis. Marc Ledoux has won two medals at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. He has won two European titles and also won silver and bronze medals in team events with Mathieu Loicq and Nico Vergeylen.
James Rawson was a British para table tennis player who competed at every Summer Paralympic Games between 1984 and 2008, winning five medals. He has also competed at World Championships in Assen 1990, Taipei 2002 where he won team silver with Neil Robinson and individual bronze defeating Guertler from Germany.
Samuel Von Einem is an Australian Paralympic table tennis player. Von Einem has represented Australia in table tennis since 2011. He competed at the 2016 Rio Paralympics and 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, where he won silver medals in the Men's Class 11. At Rio Paralympics, he became Australia's first male table tennis medalist since Terry Biggs won gold in 1984. At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, he won a bronze medal.
Maha Al-Bargouthi was a Jordanian para table tennis player who competed in five Paralympic Games and won three Paralympic medals. She was voted Jordan's top sportsperson in 2002.
Neil Robinson is a retired para table tennis player from the United Kingdom. He participated in seven consecutive Paralympic Games and won team titles with Scott Robertson and James Rawson in both world and European championships.
Stephanie "Steffi" Grebe is a German para table tennis player who was born without her left and right forearms, she is a right-handed player.
Ma Lin is a Chinese-Australian table tennis player who has only a left arm. He has won for gold, three silver and one bronze Paralympic medals in representing China and Australia over five games. He competed for Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics and the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
Kim Young-gun is a South Korean para table tennis player. He has participated in four Summer Paralympic Games and has won twelve titles in Asian Para Table Tennis Championships. He is coached by Kim Byoung-young. He would win a gold medal at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in men's singles table tennis.
Germany competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021. This was their sixteenth consecutive appearance at the Summer Paralympics since 1960.
Audrey Le Morvan is a former French para table tennis player who competed in international level events. She participated in three Paralympic Games and was a double bronze medalist. She was born with a deformed left forearm. She has competed in team events with Claire Mairie and Thu Kamkasomphou.
Gilles de la Bourdonnaye is a French para table tennis player who competes in international level events. He is a triple Paralympic champion, triple World champion and thirteen time European champion. His right arm was amputated when he was three years old after an elevator accident.
Nico Vergeylen is a retired Belgian para table tennis player who competed in international level events. He was a Paralympic champion, double World silver medalist and six-time European medalist. He has won most of his team titles alongside Marc Ledoux and Mathieu Loicq.
Egon Kramminger is an Austrian para table tennis player. He is a four-time World medalist, 12-time European medalist and has participated at the Paralympic Games five times.
Nathan Pellissier is an Australian Paralympic table tennis player. He competed at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics where he won a silver medal and at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
Thomas Rau is a German para table tennis player. He won bronze in the Men's team class 6–7 at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo. He is a European champion and a World bronze medalist. He was born without a right arm and has missing fingers on his left hand.
Marcin Skrzynecki is a Polish para table tennis player who competes at international table tennis competitions. He is a Paralympic and World champion and a double European champion in men's teams events. He has won his titles and medals with Piotr Grudzień.