Birgit Pohl

Birgit Pohl
nation	Germany
birthday	22nd April 1954 (age 66)
place of birth	Gera ,  GDR
Career
discipline	Javelin and discus throw , shot put
society	TSV 1886 Gera-Leumnitz
Trainer	Andreas Pohl (her husband)
status	resigned
End of career	2012
Medal table
Paralympic Games gold 1996 Atlanta Shot put gold 2000 Sydney Discus throw silver 2008 Beijing Shot put bronze 2008 Beijing Javelin throw IPC world championships gold 1994 Berlin Shot put gold 1994 Berlin Discus throw silver 1994 Berlin Javelin throw gold 1998 Birmingham Shot put gold 1998 Birmingham Javelin throw gold 1998 Birmingham Discus throw gold 2002 Lille Javelin throw silver 2002 Lille Discus throw bronze 2002 Lille Shot put
last change: October 22, 2019

Birgit Pohl (born April 22, 1954 in Lichtenau (Neustadt an der Orla) ) is a German former athlete and swimmer .

Life

After graduating from high school , she matriculated to study mathematics in the Soviet city ​​of Kharkiv . She is also a graduate economist. She then worked for a bank in Gera .

In 1982 Pohl suffered a stroke and at the beginning of the 1990s she started doing sports for the disabled - before that she had been an ambitious swimmer. Impaired by flaccid paralysis in both legs and partial paralysis of the left arm, she now competed in a sitting position in the javelin throw , the discus throw and the shot put and was finally assigned to the starting class F 34 . Her greatest successes are two gold medals at the 1996 Summer Paralympic Games in Atlanta and 2000 in Sydney, as well as several titles at the World Athletics Championships for the disabled . In the run-up to the 2008 Summer Paralympic Games in Beijing, she fell ill with cancer , but after a successful recovery she still managed to qualify and won a silver and a bronze medal in the competitions. Apart from her international successes, Pohl is also a multiple German champion in her athletic disciplines as well as in swimming. In January 2012 she retired from active competitive sports.

Awards

• Silver bay leaf : 3 ×
• Thuringian disabled athlete of the year : 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2008

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andreas Rabel: "Paralympic winner Birgit Pohl stops". On January 18, 2012 on otz.de ( Ostthüringer Zeitung ). Retrieved October 22, 2019.
2. ↑ Profile of Birgit Pohl. Retrieved from paralympic.org ( International Paralympic Committee ) on October 22, 2019.
3. ↑ Profile of Birgit Pohl on the homepage of the ARD-Sportschau. ( Memento of August 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved October 22, 2019.
4. ↑ Information about Birgit Pohl on the TSV 1886 Gera-Leumnitz homepage. Retrieved from tsv1886gera-leumnitz.privat.t-online.de on October 22, 2019.