It was perhaps the greatest German “goosebumps” moment at the Paralympics in Tokyo: When Edina Müller got a winning kiss from her son Liam while on the boat, all the troubles and anger of the past few months were futile.

"Everything else was forgotten," said the Hamburg native, who, nine years after winning gold in wheelchair basketball, this time triumphed in a canoe.

For months, the 38-year-old had to fight to even be allowed to take the two-year-old with her to Japan as a nursing mother.

Because he did not get an accreditation for the village, Edina Müller lived with him and her partner in the hotel and had to commute all the time.

But the son was on the track for the final on Saturday.

Lindy Ave also provided a German highlight in the evening.

The 23-year-old, who suffers from cerebral palsy, won over 400 meters in the pouring rain with a world record time of exactly 1: 00.00 minutes.

“You're used to rainy weather when you live on the Baltic Sea,” said the Greifswald woman with a laugh.

Once again, great German moments at the Paralympics in Tokyo, which ended on Sunday - and the Germans were largely positive. For example Friedhelm Julius Beucher, the President of the German Disabled Sports Association (DBS). From a German point of view, he saw “definitely more light” at these Paralympics, claimed Beucher. And Germany’s Head of Mission Karl Quade is also basically satisfied. After a weak start due to the program, "we had the strong second week as expected," says Quade: "We're moving roughly where we saw each other before."

But the German performance has to be viewed in a differentiated manner. With 43 medals, there were six more than the 37 at the Olympics. With significantly fewer athletes, but with significantly more decisions. With 13 gold medals, the DBS team won three more than the Olympians, but also five fewer than in Rio de Janeiro. There Germany was sixth in the medal table, now in twelfth the top 10 goal was just missed. Instead of just three sports as in Rio, the German disabled athletes won gold in seven sports in Japan. But in cycling (three instead of eight) and in athletics (four instead of nine) there were significantly fewer titles.

“That couldn't be compensated,” says Quade.

However, there remain many stories and faces.

“Lighthouses for their sport, but also for society” - this is how Beucher calls these athletes.

Like prosthetic sprinter Johannes Floors, who after gold over 400 meters can now call himself “Fastest man on no legs” - fastest man without legs.

Like 19 year old swimmer Taliso Engel.

Or Edina Müller.

Beucher sees perspectives.

Nonetheless, he also said, “it should be clearly stated before the analysis that we have a deficit in the promotion and screening of young talent”.