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Linn Kazmaier with her guide Florian Baumann
Photo: Jens Büttner / dpa
15-year-old Linn Kazmaier won the middle distance cross-country at the Paralympics in Beijing.
On Saturday, the teenager from the Römerstein ski guild with guide Florian Baumann had a 39.5-second lead over Chinese Yue Wang and jumped in the air with both skis at the finish line.
Kazmaier is the second youngest athlete at the entire Beijing Games.
The top talent, who has an eyesight of just four percent, had previously won two silver medals in biathlon and a bronze and a silver medal in cross-country skiing.
“It feels totally awesome.
And pretty unreal too,” said Kazmaier.
The fact that the fifth medal was even the gold one was “incredible.
I'm really happy about that.
But I'm so young, I still have so much time.
It wouldn't be a broken leg if I hadn't won gold." The 15-year-old also thought of her parents, with whom she spoke via ARD shortly after the win: "It's going to be a very tough night for her.
They had to get up at four o'clock to watch the race.
And now there will be celebrations for a long time.«
Forster gets her second gold
A little later, monoskier Anna-Lena Forster secured the next gold medal for Germany, her second at the Beijing Games.
In her favorite discipline, slalom, Forster easily won 2.32 seconds ahead of Liu Sitong from China.
In the standing class, Anna-Maria Rieder took bronze, her first ever Paralympics medal.
Forster repeated her double from Pyeongchang with her triumphs in slalom and before that in the super combined, she now has four Paralympic victories in total.
In Yanqing, in addition to two gold medals, she also won two silver medals in downhill and super-G, and in giant slalom she only missed bronze by six hundredths.
With a total of eleven medals, she is now one of the most successful German athletes at the Paralympics.
For Rieder it was the first precious metal ever at the Winter Games.
After coming close to the podium twice in Yanqing in fifth place and once in fourth place, she put in two clean runs in her special discipline and ultimately had a lead of more than six seconds on fourth place.
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