Britta Siegers

Britta Siegers

Nation:	Germany Germany
Birthday:	4th July 1966
Playing hand:	Right
singles
Career record:	71:45
Highest ranking:	8 (July 28, 2003)
Double
Career record:	41:26
Highest ranking:	4 (October 11, 2004)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Britta Siegers (born July 4, 1966 in Leverkusen ) is a German disabled athlete . After starting high-performance sport in 1983, she won two gold and one silver medal in swimming at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in New York . Then there were six more gold medals. She also won numerous titles in her later tennis career .

Siegers is an honorary member of the board of the German Olympic Society and is responsible for disabled sports in the Cologne / Leverkusen area.

successes

Swim:
- 1984 - Paralympics twice gold, once silver
- 1988 - Paralympics once gold, once silver
- 1992 - Paralympics five gold, two silver, one bronze
- In addition, she was 16 times world and 13 times European champion.
Tennis:
- 2002 - German Open winner
- 2002 - Korea Open finalist
- 2003 - German Open winner
- 2004 - Slovakia Open winner
- 2004 - Polish Open winner
- 2004 - Brasil Open finalist
- 2004 - Biel Open finalist
A total of 96 German championship titles (in the open class)
Other awards:
- Disabled Sports Silver Medal
- Silver bay leaf for special achievements in disabled sports 1992
- Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia 1994
- Golden Camera 1992
- Honorary membership of TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen since 1989

↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .