Catherine Bader-Bille
Catherine Bader-Bille (born September 14, 1965 in Leipzig ) is a former German athlete who won numerous national and international titles in disabled sports (damage class A6 / 8: upper arm / forearm amputee). She still holds two world records to this day .
childhood
Catherine Bader-Bille was born without a right forearm to a Leipzig rower and a sports student from the Ivory Coast . Even as a child she was involved in competitive sports and dreamed of an Olympic victory . In the GDR , however, she was denied access to the children's and youth sports school due to her disability .
Athletic career
It was only after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1997 that Catherine Bader-Bille started doing competitive sport again at the age of 32. First she trained under the direction of Rositha Hellmann at TuS Jena . During this time she won her first international title. In Madrid it was 1997 vice European champion in the long jump and the same year also German champion. In October 1997 she was voted second in the election for “Sportswoman of the Year” for the city of Jena .
In 1998 Bader-Bille achieved a triple success at the German championships. She won in both the long and high jump . In the 100-meter sprint, she made it to second place.
At an athlete ceremony in Thuringia in the winter of 1998, she met multiple medalist and later training partner Heike Drechsler , whom she introduced to her former father-in-law - the former GDR jumping coach Erich Drechsler . The retired successful coach trained Bader-Bille on a voluntary basis from 1999 until her career ended in 2005.
In the same year, Bader-Bille set two German records at the German Championships in Schwetzingen . She won the long jump and thus secured qualification for the Paralympics . In addition, she won the triple jump and high jump and took second place in the 100-meter sprint. In October 1999 she decided the Australian championships in long and triple jump for themselves.
2000 was her most successful year. Initially, Bader-Bille took first place in the German championships in Weinstadt in both the long and high jump. In the high jump, she set a world record that is still valid today. She finished third in the 100-meter run. In October 2000, she won the 80,000 spectators packed the Olympic Stadium of Sydney at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in the long jump with a centimeter ahead of their competition, the gold medal . Numerous honors followed, including being voted “Disabled Athlete of the Year” by the city of Jena and awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by Federal President Johannes Rau in February 2001 . Also in 2001 Bader-Bille was European champion in high and long jump in Assen, the Netherlands, and vice European champion over 100 meters. At the sports festival in Leverkusen , she improved her own German record in the triple jump. In Hamburg in the summer she again took first place in both the long and high jump at the German Championships, and over 100 meters she was second. In 2001, the Free State of Thuringia honored her as “Sportswoman of the Year” in disabled sports.
By the end of her career in 2005, Catherine Bader-Bille had won several other titles, including the World Championships in Lille in France in 2002, the European Championships in Assen (2003) and the international indoor championships in Leverkusen (2005). During her active time, the sportswoman appeared several times as a model.
Even during her active career, Bader-Bille was on the application committee for the Olympic Games "Leipzig 2012" from 2002 to 2004 as project manager for the Paralympics division. She then took on coaching activities for Paralympic teams abroad on behalf of the German Olympic Sports Confederation and the Federal Foreign Office .
The qualified communications specialist is the mother of two adult sons and lives as a university lecturer and athletics trainer for the Lower Saxony Disabled Sports Association in Hanover.
Web links
- Catherine Bader-Bille Personal website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Silver bay leaf for the winners from Sydney DOSB article from February 1, 2001. Accessed on November 20, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bader-Bille, Catherine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German disabled athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig , German Democratic Republic |