Birgit Kober

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Birgit Kober (April 2013)
Birgit Kober in April 2013

nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 10th July 1971 (age 49)
place of birth Munich ,  Germany
size 178 cm
Weight 90 kg
job pedagogue
Career
discipline Shot put , vorm. also: javelin ,
society BSG Bad Oeynhausen ,
formerly: TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Trainer Alexander Holstein,
formerly: Joachim Lipske
status active
Medal table
Paralympic Games 3 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
IPC world championships 5 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
IPC European Championships 6 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
IPC logo (2004-2019) .svg Paralympic Games
gold 2012 London Shot put
gold 2012 London Javelin throw
gold 2016 Rio de Janeiro Shot put
IPC logo (2004-2019) .svg IPC world championships
gold 2011 Christchurch Shot put
gold 2011 Christchurch Javelin throw
gold 2013 Lyon Shot put
gold 2013 Lyon Javelin throw
gold 2019 Dubai Shot put
IPC logo (2004-2019) .svg IPC European Championships
gold 2012 Stadskanaal Shot put
gold 2012 Stadskanaal Javelin throw
gold 2014 Swansea Shot put
gold 2014 Swansea Javelin throw
gold 2016 Grosseto Shot put
gold 2018 Berlin Shot put
last change: November 12, 2019

Birgit Kober (born July 10, 1971 in Munich , Bavaria ) is a German athlete who specializes in the shot put in handicapped sports in the starting class F36 . She also holds the world record in this starting class with 11.79 m.

Life

Kober grew up in Munich. In connection with antibiotic treatment, she became hard of hearing at the age of 16 and had epileptic seizures for the first time at 17 . She moved to the Ruhr area to attend a school for the hearing impaired in Essen. She then studied medicine and education at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 2006 she interrupted her studies to take care of her mother, who was suffering from cancer and who died in April 2007. In June 2007 she suffered status epilepticus and was treated in hospital. There the doctors made a medical error, as a result of which she suffered severe ataxia and has since been dependent on a wheelchair. She is currently training again without a wheelchair.

Sports

Kober began throwing the javelin in 1985, still unimpaired, and has been active in disabled sports since 2008, where she also tried her hand at amateur level parabadminton.

In 2011 Kober made her international debut and won the gold medal in the disciplines of javelin and shot put at the IPC World Championships in Christchurch .

In 2012 she won gold with the ball and the spear at the IPC European Championships in Stadskanaal and at the Summer Paralympics in London .

Kober has repeatedly won the shot put and javelin throw, both in 2013 at the IPC World Championships in Lyon and in 2014 at the IPC European Championships in Swansea .

If Kober started in a wheelchair since 2011, she switched to starting class F36 at the beginning of 2016 in order to compete standing from now on, as a rule change stipulated that athletes in wheelchairs must in future be strapped in so tightly that they no longer generate any strength from their legs can. (She still needs the wheelchair for long walks and everyday life). Since the move, she has only competed with the ball.

At the beginning of July 2016, Kober set a standing world record of 11.52 m at the Bayer Invitational Meeting in Leverkusen . Two months later, she won gold at the Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro , for which she was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on November 1, 2016 .

In 2018, Kober improved the world record she held at the German Championships of the German Disabled Sports Association (DBS) in Kienbaum by 4 cm to 11.56 m. At the IPC European Championships in Berlin , she increased this by another 23 cm to 11.79 m and became European champion.

Club affiliations

In 2008 Kober became a member of TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen . After the Paralympics in Rio 2016, she moved to TSV 1860 Munich in the newly founded department for disabled people in Munich to help promote disabled sports, especially in the field of athletics. For the 2019 season, he switched to BSG Bad Oeynhausen, where coach Alex Holstein is also based.

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Portrait of Kober , on: infostradasports.com, accessed October 2, 2018
  2. ↑ Birgit Kober becomes European champion with a world record , on: tsv1860.org, accessed October 2, 2018
  3. ↑ List of results , on: team-thomas.org, accessed October 2, 2018
  4. ^ NDR: Kober defends the shot put title - Popow jumps to gold. In: rio.sportschau.de. Retrieved September 18, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b Press release from the Office of the Federal President of November 1, 2016: Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf. Retrieved March 30, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Disabled Sportsman of the Year 2012 , sportmuseum.de, accessed on January 25, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Kober, Birgit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete in disabled sports
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , Germany