Bernd Heinrich (volleyball player)
Bernd Heinrich (born November 6, 1961 ) is a former German disabled athlete .
Career
Bernd Heinrich comes from the Black Forest . At the age of seven he suffered a serious truck accident in which he lost a leg (thigh amputation). Despite this serious injury, he did not want to do without sports. He therefore became a member of VC Nagold. As a handicapped-accessible sport, he chose sitting volleyball , in which he soon achieved good results. Even as a very young man, he was appointed to the German national sitting volleyball team, where he was used in national and international competitions and achieved extraordinary successes with the German team. In 1983 he was runner-up with the German national team. He was also 3 times world champion, 4 times European champion and took part in the Paralympic Summer Games three times , each of which he won a gold medal.
He won his first gold medal at the Paralympic Summer Games in 1988. Another gold medal followed in 1992, and he won the third at the Paralympics in 2000.
For winning the gold medal at the Paralympic Summer Games in 1992, he and the German national sitting volleyball team received the silver laurel leaf from Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker .
Individual evidence
- ^ German Disabled Sports Association, Bernd Heinrich
- ↑ VC homepage. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Bernd Heinrich - an extraordinary career on the volleyball net ...
- ↑ Bernd Heinrich - an extraordinary career ...
- ↑ Sports report of the federal government to the Bundestag - printed matter 14/1070 - page 51
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| SURNAME | Heinrich, Bernd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German disabled athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1961 |