Gerhard Scharf is an

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

n Paralympic athlete and

para table tennis Para table tennis is a parasports which follows the rules set by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The usual table tennis rules are in effect with slight modifications for wheelchair athletes. Athletes from disability groups can ...

player. At the

1984 Summer Paralympics The 1984 International Games for the Disabled, canonically the 1984 Summer Paralympics were the seventh Paralympic Games to be held. There were two separate competitions: one in Stoke Mandeville, England, United Kingdom for wheelchair athletes ...

he competed in athletics and at the Summer Paralympics of 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 he competed in individual and team para table tennis events. In total he won one gold medal, one silver medal and one bronze medal at the Summer Paralympics, all in table tennis.Gerhard Scharf
ITTF Para Table Tennis In the Men's Teams 2 event at the 1992 Summer Paralympics he won the gold medal together with Rudolf Hajek. At the 1996 Summer Paralympics he won two medals in table tennis events: the silver medal in the Men's Teams 1–2, once again together with Rudolf Hajek, and one of the bronze medals in the Men's Singles 2 event.

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