Andreas Wels

Andreas Wels

Personal information

Nationality:

Germany

Discipline (s) :

Artistic / synchronized jumping

Society:

SV Halle

Birthday:

1st January 1975

Place of birth:

Schönebeck (Elbe), Magdeburg district (GDR), now Saxony-Anhalt, FRG

Medals

Olympic games
silver	2004 Athens	Synchronous 3 m
World championships
bronze	2003 Barcelona	Synchronous 3 m
silver	2005 Melbourne	Synchronous 3 m
bronze	2007 Montreal	Synchronous 3 m
European championships
gold	1997 Seville	1 m
silver	1997 Seville	3 m
silver	1999 Istanbul	1 m
gold	2000 Helsinki	Synchronous 3 m
silver	2002 Berlin	3 m
silver	2002 Berlin	Synchronous 3 m
gold	2004 Madrid	3 m
gold	2006 Budapest	Synchronous 3 m
silver	2008 Eindhoven	Synchronous 3 m

Andreas Wels (born January 1, 1975 in Schönbeck ) is a former German diver . He won a total of 13 medals at World Swimming Championships , European Swimming Championships and Olympic Games .

Career

Andreas Wels, who started for SV Halle , won his first international title in Seville in 1997 as European champion in jumping from the 1-meter board and silver from the 3-meter board. In 1999 he became vice European champion on the 1-meter board in Istanbul . At the European Championships in Berlin in 2002 he won silver from the 3-meter board and gold in Madrid in 2004 . Wels took part in three Olympic Games: in 1996 he was twelfth in Atlanta , in 2000 in Sydney tenth and in 2004 in Athens 23rd. For this he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on March 16, 2005.

In 1999 he was also vice world cup winner on the 3-meter board.

He was also able to achieve great success in synchronized jumping from the 3-meter board with his partner Tobias Schellenberg . Her first big success was winning the title at the European Championships in Helsinki in 2000 , which she repeated in Budapest in 2006 . Her greatest success, however, was the silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens . A year later they were able to defend this place at the World Championships in Montreal . In addition, there are EM silver in 2002 and World Cup bronze in 2003 in Melbourne and 2007 in Montreal.

In 2008 Wels ended his active career. However, as a junior coach he remains connected to diving.

Leap of my life by Andreas Wels

Since 2016 Andreas Wels has been organizing the prominent jumping jump of my life by Andreas Wels in the Nordbad in Halle (Saale) . Participants in 2017 were e.g. B. the grandmaster Chu Tan Cuong , the oldest competitive gymnast in the world Johanna Quaas , Parakanute Ivo Kilian and actor Axel Ranisch .

Web links

Andreas Wels in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Press release of the Office of the Federal President of March 16, 2005 .... Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games ...
↑ No more water jumping for catfish. In: Der Tagesspiegel. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
↑ jump of my life by Andreas Wels 2017 sports photos hall, accessed on 28 June 2017th
↑ Initiator of the show Leap of My Life. In: Wochenspiegel. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Wels, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German diver
DATE OF BIRTH	1st January 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schönebeck

[1] Press release of the Office of the Federal President of March 16, 2005 .... Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games ...

[2] No more water jumping for catfish. In: Der Tagesspiegel. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .

[3] ump of my life by Andreas Wels 2017 sports photos hall, accessed on 28 June 2017th

[4] Initiator of the show Leap of My Life. In: Wochenspiegel. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .