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The German Olympic Sports Union (Dosba) nominated a total of 436 athletes from 29 Summer Olympics 2008 in Beijing, China. They totaled 194 women and 242 men, is accompanied by about 317 Everything. For Germany, it is already 22 Occurs on the Summer Olympics, where they are represented in 26 of 28 sports and they have high hopes of success. The teams of baseball and softball sports have not been able to qualify.

During the last Summer Olympics in Athens in 2004, the German team ended the event in sixth place. At that time, Germany has a total of 49 medals including 14 gold, 16 silver and 19 bronze medals. The German Olympic team in 2004, a total of 453 athletes, 17 more than this year’s team. The Director General of the Union Olympic sport Michael Vesper said before the Games: “We send a team to Beijing. We are looking to repeat our sixth place in Athens and we hope that the continuation of the downward trend recent Olympic events. ”

At the end of 14 days Competition where the German team remains in fifth position in 2008 with a total of 36 medals behind the nations of China, USA, UK and Russia. 36 of Germany won 14 gold medals, 9 silver and 13 bronze medals. The gold medals were achieved in the following sports: canoeing, kayaking, horseback riding, fencing, swimming, triathlon, lifting weights and modern pentathlon. Most winners were the emotional 25 years, the weight lift Matthias Steiner, the victory of his deceased wife, Susan, and 22 years of Lena Fine Born, who won the first medal in the French fight modern five to 72 years.

Steiner and won the first gold medal in its class German after many years. The latter was achieved in a Ronny Weller of 1992. In the sport of weight lifting athletes are asked a lift, a muscle contraction or cleaning and upheavals. The Vienna native, born Steiner could not reach the 207 kg snatch and fell behind. At its last attempt in clean and jerk and then, he deleted more than eight kilos by then his own record and reached a total of 461 kilos. With these, it has surpassed its competitors Ewgeni Tschihischew Russian reached the second place only one kilo less than the greatest man of the world. François Steiner, a photo of Susan in the award ceremony and said: “This gold medal is for my wife. I hope and believe that realization.”