In the Men’s A Doubles, the world number 3 played with Swiss Léon Mamié, number 18 in the world. The effective final in the three-pair draw was against home pair Bastian Böhm and Thorsten Lentfer.
A fantastic table tennis ended 25 23 to Bastian and Thorsten, before Joerg and Léon took a commanding 10-point lead after badminton.
The Germans set up an exciting tennis match with a 21 17 squash win, leaving Joerg and Léon needing 16, which they reached after a neck-and-neck tennis.
Earlier, Bastian and Thorsten had beaten Steffen Neumann and Guus Van De Burgt 21 11, 18 21, 21 12, 6 4, while Joerg and Léon dispatched the same pair before tennis, with badminton again proving the big difference, a win to just four in this match.
It was also double gold for Kirsten I. Kaptein, who dropped just one set on her way to triumph in the Women’s A with Swiss Adeline Kilchenmann. They beat German-French pair Rebecca Bäuerle and Phet Phanouvong in the final.
In the Mixed A, Kirsten and Joerg faced off against French pair Pauline Cavé and Julien Castel, who were unlucky to just miss out on the second seeded spot and took a two-point lead after the first set. Then Kirsten and Joerg turned the screw, winning to 13, 16, and then sealed the win 11 9 in tennis.
They met in the final two youngsters in Alina Reissenauer and Bastian who had triumphed against Swiss pair Adeline and Léon in an excellent match that went pretty much down to the wire in every set 15 21, 22 20, 21 19, 21 15.
The final was strong quality but not quite so close, with Joerg and Kirsten winning 21 7, 21 15, 19 21, 4 3.
In the Mixed B, Carola Von Heimburg with Guus Van de Burgt and Steffen Neumann with Rebecca Bäuerle both progressed to the final from two groups of three with relative ease – with a win each before tennis and a win each midway through tennis – to set up an exciting final.
And it did not disappoint. Carola and Guus pulled off a brilliant comeback from 13 points down at halfway, with an excellent 21 11 squash win and then 21 18 and the gummi in the tennis!
Silke Altmann and Resat Akdag defeated France’s Phet Phanouvong and Hong Kong’s Yin Kiu Kevin Leung 21 9, 14 21, 21 2 for the bronze.
Elsewhere, in a very high-quality Men’s B Doubles all group games in the six-pair draw went. French pair Julien Castel and Calixte Hoarau won the final quite comfortably, 18 21, 21 10, 21 4.
Group B was especially strong, as the other pairs in the group both won their matches too – German pair Thomas Knaack and Dirk Skock in the third/fourth place match and French pair Bertrand Carlier and Romain Henry in the fifth/sixth match.
In Men’s C doubles, German duo Andre Damde and Jörg Lorenz fought back from an eight-point deficit against Graham King and Yin Kiu Kevin Leung in the final of the six-pair draw to win 13 21, 21 11, 21 11, 10 8.
