On July 26, 2024, the Summer Olympics will open in Paris. A year before this major sporting event, seven athletes who train in the performance center at the Frankfurt site of the Brandenburg Olympic Training Center are among the candidates with a chance to participate in the Olympic Games.
Together with their coaches were appointed at the summer festival of the sports state of Brandenburg in June 2023 in the "Team Paris - Land Brandenburg"
- Jon Luke Mau* – Weightlifting (Coach: Detlef Blasche)
- Nikita Putilov* – Boxing (Coach: David Hoppstock)
- Francy Rädelt* – Wrestling (Coach: Michael Kothe)
- Andreas Löw – Sport Shooting/Trap (Coach: Karten Beth)
- Paul Pigorsch – Sport Shooting/Trap (Coach: Karsten Beth)
- Kathrin Murche – Sport Shooting/Trap (Coach: Karsten Beth)
- Michelle Skeries – Sport Shooting/Pistol (Coach: Benno Bölke)
*awarded the Hermann Weingärtner Award as the highest sporting award of the city of Frankfurt (Oder)
Milena Manns, Head of Department for Culture, Education, Sports, Civic Participation and Europe: "I am delighted that so many young people in Frankfurt (Oder) are successfully pursuing their sport and can even justifiably hope to compete at the Olympic Games, which will open in Paris in exactly one year. Of course, I am keeping my fingers crossed for each and every one of them. Very much the city would like to add another plate to its Olympic home for a new medalist and or winner at the Olympics."