Table Tennis Player Valentin Baus brings Paralympics

The right words had to search Valentin Baus first. It's indescribable, said the table tennis player after winning his first gold medal at the Paralympics. With 3: 2 after sentences, on Sunday in Tokyo, he hit the favored Chinese Ningning Cao and took the second gold for the German Disabled Port Association (DBS) in the Japanese capital - 77 minutes after Triumph of Martin Schulz in Triathlon.

The 25-year-old of Borussia Düsseldorf had to fight hard in Tokyo Metropolitan Gym and was just before a defeat. After the recovered starting set (11: 4) Ningning Cao turned the game and led 2: 1. In a highly competitive fourth passage prevented construction, which has a glass bone disease, with 13:11 the silver medal. He then won the decision set with 11: 7 and could not quite believe his luck after the 43-minute table tennis thriller: finally the desired gold medal.

It all comes together.

Valentin Baus

We worked so hard so long, said the Paralympics winner, especially thought of his personal environment. Not only I, but also my training partners, my coach, caregiver, everything comes together. Prior to departure to Japan, Baus had wanted to realize his dream of gold as he told. Five years after the silver medal at the Paralympics of Rio, the native Bochumer is now at the destination. You just can not describe that, he said overjoyed.

A large gold celebration will not give it from corona reasons. At least Baus, however, wants to sit comfortably in a small round and maybe we'll drink a water, he joked. However, the Paralympics are still not finished. With the team, Baus strives for the second medal.