No farewell medal in the land of Judos for Brussig

Ramona Brussig (20 May 1977) is a German judoka and also two-time gold medal champion in Paralympic competitors. She was born in Leipzig with aesthetic problems suggesting that she completes in B2 classification events. Brussig has an identical double sis, Carmen Brussig, likewise a gold-medal-winning visually-impaired judoka, who was born 15 minutes prior to her. Brussig started learning 1986 at the age of 9 as well as made her senior international debut in 1998 at the World Games in Madrid. Though her sis stays in Switzerland, the set like to fulfill up and also train with each other when they can. They say that they do not have a sense of rivalry as they contend in various weight classes.Brussig won gold in the under 57 kg weight class at the 2004 Gamings in Athens, her first Paralympic Games, versus Spanish judoka Marta Arce Payno. She after that won silver four years later in Beijing, shedding to Wang Lijing in the last. Brussig and Wang both dropped down a weight class to under 52 kg for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, conference each other once again in the last. This moment Brussig was victorious, going residence with the gold. Brussig protected her title at the Rio 2016 and finished as runner-up to French judoka Sandrine Martinet, earning her a silver medal.Through her job Brussig has won 4 world titles as well as 6 European titles. She says that of her most valued memories was winning gold in London just 15 minutes after her twin sibling accomplished the exact same accomplishment. Both sis are provided among the most encouraging German medal candidates for the 2020 Summertime Paralympics in Tokyo, leading to them being given financial backing in their endeavours.Brussig helps the sporting activities organization of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a state in northern Germany.

The dream of two medals in the Land of Judos remained unfulfilled for the twins Carmen and Ramona Brussig to complete large paralympics cartries. Turning on to Paris 2024 Ramona Brussig Castle after its bitter defeat in the fight for Bronze against Natalija Nikolajschik from Ukraine. Maybe I'll do a smaller tournament again. An Em or something, she said, But certainly there are no games for me.

Whether this is also for her sister Carmen, which initially turned in the class up to 48 kilograms in the second round and then in the hopeful round, so whether there are the two more only in the double pack, is open. We have not thought about that, Ramona said.

Meanwhile, a medal has table tennis player Valentin Baus. The Düsseldorfer suffering from the glass bone disease reached the semi-final and thus has bronze safely. The chance of doing later on the Japanese evening also his Düsseldorfer club colleagues Thomas Schmidberger and Sandra Mikolaschek as well as Björn Schnake from TSV Thiede. After all four of the table tennis player won in Rio were silver, the great goal is at least once.

Lived and trained half a year in Japan

The Brussig's had not yet been explicitly set that, although the two 44-year-olds born in Leipzig and started for Schwerin, never stayed with Paralympics without a medal until Friday. Ramona had previously obtained with four participations twice and twice silver, Carmen collected with three participations a complete medal set.

According to Rio 2016, they went on to Tokyo because of the special importance of their sport in the host country. For the preparation, the two in 2017 lived and trained half a year in Japan. It was still worth it, to be the way, said Ramona, It was a nice feeling to have been there in the motherland of Judos. Thus, that they could stay without a medal, we have previously disappeared. Of course, it's disappointing, but a fifth place is also a good performance.