Summary: Paralympics news compact – Everything important from Tuesday, September 3

Sports shooter Natascha Hiltrop and wheelchair fencer Maurice Schmidt win the third and fourth German gold medals at the Paralympics. Irmgard Bensusan sprinted to bronze. Thomas Schmidberger and Juliane Wolf have already secured their second medal in para table tennis. Results and news from the Paralympics in Paris on Tuesday, September 3rd.

Wheelchair fencing: Maurice Schmidt crowned champion

Wheelchair fencer Maurice Schmidt has won the fourth gold medal at the Paralympics for Germany. Thanks to an 8-0 run, he defeated Piers Gilliver 15-8. Read the article

Para-shooting: Hiltrop wins gold in Three-position combat

Sports shooter Natascha Hiltrop won the small-bore three-position competition and took home the gold medal. The decision in her favor was made with the last shot in the final. Read article

Para-athletics: Bensusan sprints to bronze – Willing sixth

The 33-year-old Irmgard Bensusan won the bronze medal in the 200-meter final. Javelin thrower Martina Willing finished sixth at the end of her tenth Paralympics. Read the article

Para table tennis: Schmidberger and Wolf in the semifinals – Rau narrowly loses

Thomas Schmidberger won the table tennis quarter-finals against the Frenchman Florian Merrien and secured a singles medal after winning silver in the doubles. Juliane Wolf followed suit, defeating Zsofia Arloy from Hungary. Thomas Rau, who narrowly lost to a Dane, Thomas Brüchle after losing to the Chinese superstar Feng, Björn Schnake and Jana Spegel were eliminated. Read the article

Wheelchair basketball: Germany storms into the semifinals

The German wheelchair basketball players can continue to dream of a medal. The team of national coach Michael Engel defeated the Spanish selection in the quarterfinals with 57:49 (26:19). In the semifinals on Thursday, Great Britain will be their opponent. Read the article

Para-Swimming: Angel disqualified – Trio eliminated

Swimmer Taliso Engel was disqualified in his heat of the 200 m individual medley. A wrong turn from backstroke to breaststroke cost him the final. Philip Hebmüller, Verena Schott and Johanna Döhler chose in their heats. Read the article

Sitting volleyball: Germany loses to Iran’s giants

The German sitting volleyball player was clearly defeated by top favorite Iran with her 2.46 meter man Mehrzad. Germany is still in the semifinals – and their opponent is also certain: Bosnia-Herzegovina. Read the article

Para-riding: Dresden misses bronze – and takes it sportingly

Heidemarie Dressing took the disappointing fourth place in the dressage. She was the first to start with her horse Dooloop and was in second place for a long time. But the last two riders overtook the oldest German Paralympic participant at 69 years of age. Read the article

Para-archery: Kliem narrowly loses round of 16

Archer Flora Kliem won the knockout round of the recurve competition safely, but had to congratulate her opponent Ziva Lavrinc from Slovenia on her victory in the round of 16 just a short time later. In the end, it was a very close match. Read the article