Alhassane Baldé

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Alhassane Baldé
athletics

Personal information
Type of disability (class): Paraplegia (T54)
Nationality: GermanyGermany Germany
Birthday: December 21, 1985
Place of birth: Conakry , Guinea
 

Alhassane Baldé (born December 21, 1985 in Conakry , Guinea ) is a German racing wheelchair athlete .

Childhood and youth

Alhassane Baldé has been paraplegic from the eighth thoracic vertebra since he was born due to a medical error. When his twin brother was born, the doctors did not realize that there was a second boy in his stomach. At the age of nine months he came to Germany for medical treatment. When he was five years old, he was adopted by his uncle, who lived in Germany, and his wife, whom he met while studying business administration in Münster. His uncle fled Guinea in 1978 at the age of 23. When Alhassane Baldé was six years old, the family attended a medical rehabilitation fair, where Baldé saw a mini racing wheelchair for the first time and was delighted. The developer Errol Marklein gave him the one-off for his sixth birthday and became his first trainer.

Baldé studied dual labor market management at the University of the Federal Employment Agency and works for the Federal Agency in Bonn .

Athletic career

Since Baldé was twelve years old, he has participated in international racing competitions with a wheelchair. In 2000 he traveled to the Paralympic Youth Camp in Sydney . In 2004 he started at the Summer Paralympics in Athens and reached the semi-finals over 800 and 1500 meters. In 2015, he improved the 15-year-old German records over 1500 and 5000 meters.

In Beijing he was eliminated in the preliminary stages, for the games in London he could barely qualify. In 2016 he was nominated for the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro for the start over 800, 1500 and 5000 meters as well as for the marathon in the T54 class.

Successes (selection)

2004
  • silver European Championship - relay 4 × 400 meters
  • gold Junior European Championship - 400, 800 and 1500 meters
2005
  • bronze European championship - 800 meters
2006
  • silver Junior World Championship - 800, 1500 and 5000 meters
  • bronze Junior World Championship - 400 meters
2011
  • silver World Championship - 400 meters
2013
  • gold German champion - 800 and 1500 meters
  • silver German championship - 400 meters
2014
  • silver European Championship - 1500 and 5000 meters
2016
  • bronze European Championship - 1500 and 5000 meters
2017
  • bronze World Championship - 1500 and 5000 meters
2018
  • silver European Championship - 5000 meters

Honors

In 2006, Baldé was elected Junior Sportsman of the Year for disabled sports. The city of Ahaus honored him in 2010 as athlete of the decade . In 2012 he was appointed “Ambassador for inclusion through sport” by the DOSB . In 2014 he was named "Sportles of the Year" by Bonn.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markus Völker: Wheelchair users about Para-EM: “Integration is hard work” . In: The daily newspaper: taz . August 25, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on September 11, 2018]).
  2. ↑ taz, 25./26. August 2018, p. 38.
  3. ↑ taz, 25./26. August 2018, p. 38.
  4. ↑ taz, 25./26. August 2018, p. 38.
  5. ↑ Alhassane Baldé - episode 23: "Without sport I wouldn't be who I am". In: general-anzeiger-bonn.de. December 11, 2015, accessed July 12, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Bernhard Mathmann: Stars to touch. In: muensterlandzeitung.de. Retrieved September 10, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Baldé, Alhassane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Conakry , Guinea