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Balian Buschbaum at the television recording of Markus Lanz 2010
Buschbaum as speaker at Diversity 2019

Balian Buschbaum (born July 14, 1980 in Ulm ) was successful under the name Yvonne Buschbaum in German athletics in the pole vault and ended his athletic career in November 2007.

Life

Buschbaum is 1.70 m tall, weighed 55 kg at competition times and trained under Herbert Czingon. Buschbaum won the title of German youth champion several times and was German champion in the pole vault in 1999. Buschbaum jumped the German record height of 4.42 m on June 28 of the same year. Buschbaum had already set a new junior world record with 4.37 m. In 2003 Buschbaum moved from VfB Stuttgart to ABC Ludwigshafen and finally for the 2007 season to TuS 1897 Saulheim in Rhineland-Hesse to prepare for the World Cup season with the climax in Osaka, Japan. The greatest successes were two third places at the European Athletics Championships in 1998 and 2002 and sixth place at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

Performance development
year Height in m
1996 3.55
1997 4.00
1998 4.31
1999 4.42
2000 4.45
2001 4.45
2002 4.64 (hall: 4.65)
2003 4.70
2004 4.21
2005  -
2006 4.62
2007 4.35

Buschbaum outed on 21 November 2007 as trans man who ended definitively to his sports career and was 2007/2008 in the Bundeswehr in Berufsförderungsdienst . In order to adapt physically to the perceived gender , Buschbaum began hormone therapy at the end of 2007 and later underwent gender reassignment surgery . Buschbaum justified the decision with an emotional imbalance - he has been in the wrong body for many years. Buschbaum also justified his Achilles tendons, which are prone to injury, with the psychological stress. During his career, Buschbaum had four foot operations. His new first name Balian was inspired by the film Kingdom of Heaven , in which Balian von Ibelin "loses everything and then embarks on a journey where he gets to know himself and his responsibilities". He went public because there is little and inaccurate information in society and few contact points, "that's why I thought: I have to change something, I have to educate people".

Balian Buschbaum worked as a pole vault coach in Mainz until the end of the 2012/13 indoor season .

Others

Buschbaum took part in the sixth season of the dance show Let's Dance in April 2013 . His professional dance partner was Sarah Latton . In the fourth show he dropped out.
In October 2019 he started at Ninja Warrior Germany , but could not qualify for the semifinals.

successes

  • 1997: German youth champion of the B youth
  • 1998: German youth champion, 4th place junior world championships, 3rd place European championships
  • 1999: German Champion, German Junior Champion, German Junior Champion, Junior European Champion, 14th place in the World Championships
  • 2000: German indoor champion, German champion, German junior champion, 2nd place in the European Cup Super League, 6th place in the Olympic Games
  • 2001: German indoor champion, 6th place indoor world championships , 7th place world championships
  • 2002: 3rd place German indoor championships, 2nd place European indoor championships, 2nd place Europa-Cup Superliga, 2nd place German championships, 3rd place European championships
  • 2003: 2nd place German indoor championship, German champion, 6th place world championships

Works

  • Blue eyes stay blue. My life. Krüger, Frankfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-8105-2619-9 .
  • Women want to talk, men want sex: how different are we really, Mr. Buschbaum? Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt 2013, ISBN 978-3-596-19337-0 .

Web links

Commons : Balian Buschbaum  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ End of career: Athlete Buschbaum comes out as transsexual . In: Spiegel Online , November 21, 2007.
  2. ↑ Christian Fuchs: From Yvonne to Balian Buschbaum . Leichtathletik.de, January 25, 2008. Accessed September 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ a b Stern-TV: A life in the wrong body ( Memento from July 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), March 11, 2010.
  4. ↑ Christian Fuchs: From Yvonne to Balian Buschbaum - January 25, 2008 . German Meetings eV, January 25, 2008.
  5. ↑ Transsexuals change first names: Balian Buschbaum's moving TV appearance . RP-Online.de, January 25, 2008. Retrieved September 15, 2013.
  6. ↑ Jörg Winterfeldt: Athletics: Transsexual Buschbaum fulfills "lifelong dream" . In: Die Welt , January 25, 2008.
  7. ↑ The man who realized what women really want . In: Die Welt , April 15, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Bush tree, Balian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buschbaum, Yvonne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pole vaulter
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm