This year's national finals of "Youth trains for Olympics and Paralympics" took place in the Horst-Korber- Sport hall at 56 tables on 4/5 May.
A team from our school took part in the boys' competition III, born between 2008 and 2011. Tarish, Jonas, Mael, Patrick, Caylen and Maxi from Year 9 played in our team.
They had qualified for the tournament as Berlin state school champions.
In the group phase, the team won against Niedersachsen and Brandenburg, and lost against Bayern. On the second day, we lost against Baden-Württemberg and then won clearly against Hamburg. This allowed us to reach the 5th place match against Sachsen. In the beginning, we quickly took a 2:0 lead from the doubles (also thanks to the support and cheering by the team of the Hannah-Arendt-Gymnasium Berlin), but it became increasingly difficult to keep the concentration at a high level, as it was already a very long day with TT starting at 8 am, in the meantime it was already well past 5 pm. In the end, we lost narrowly to Saxony and after 9th place last year, we now achieved a nice 6th place. Congratulations!
All results can be found under: TISCHTENNIS (sport-pol-online.de)
Jörg Fraikin
Final ranking
Place State School
1 HE Domgymnasium Fulda
2 BW Wagenburg Gymnasium Stuttgart
3 SH Emil-von-Behring-Gymnasium Großhansdorf
4 BY Gymnasium Casimirianum
5 SN Ph.-Melanchthon-Gymnasium Bautzen
6 BE Nelson-Mandela-Schule Berlin
7 NW Rhein-Sieg-Gymnasium Sankt Augustin
8 HH Gymnasium Oberalster Hamburg
9 TH Zabel-Gymnasium
10 NI Gymnasium Meckelfeld
11 RP PAMINA-Schulzentrum Herxheim
12 ST Norbertusgymnasium Magdeburg
13 SL Robert-Schumann-Gymnasium Saarlouis
14 BB Max-Steenbeck-Gymnasium Cottbus
15 HB Kippenberg Gymnasium Bremen
16 MV Goethe-Schule Wismar
Patrick and Mael (from left) in the doubles
Tarish and Jonas (from left) in the doubles
6th place, national final JTFO-TT with (from left) Jonas, Maxi, Caylen, Mael, Tarish (Patrick is missing)
