Christiane Reppe

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Christiane Reppe
Paracycling, swimming

Personal information
Type of disability (class): Leg amputation (WH4)
Nationality: GermanyGermany Germany
Birthday: August 21, 1987
Place of birth: Dresden
Medals
 

Christiane Reppe (born August 21, 1987 in Dresden ) is a German athlete in the Paracycling department . She is currently starting her handbike for the GC Nendorf. Christiane Reppe has been part of the Sunrise Medical handbike team Team Sopur Quickie since 2014 . The team is led by Errol Marklein . She is one of the most successful German athletes in paracycling.

Background and career

Christiane Reppe, who had to have his right leg amputated at the age of five due to a malignant nerve tumor, started her sports career at the age of twelve. As part of the German national ski team's junior squad, she achieved several second and third places in German championships and world cups.

Swimming successes

At the same time, the athlete began swimming training. In the winter of 2002 Reppe qualified for her first swimming world championships in Mar del Plata, Argentina , and won two bronze medals there.

From then on she swam at the state base in Dresden with trainer Dirk Oehme and was able to achieve further successes: At the Paralympic Games in Athens in 2004 she won bronze twice in the individual disciplines of 100 m and 400 m freestyle. In the same year she was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf .

In order to set new training stimuli, the then 20-year-old relocated her training location to Berlin . There she started for the PSC Berlin and trained with the Berlin swim team, under the direction of Matthias Ulm. Due to a shoulder injury, the then-Berlin-by-choice returned from the Paralympic Games in Beijing in 2008 with a good 6th place in the 400 m freestyle discipline. In August 2011 she moved to Berlin coach Phillip Semechin. The goal was the 2012 Paralympic Games in London . On her parade route, the 400 m freestyle, she achieved a 5th place there, along with other finals. After the Paralympic Games in London in 2012 , Reppe ended her swimming career and thus initially also competitive sport.

In her career as a competitive swimmer, she had great successes from 2002 to 2012. She holds several German swimming records.

Handbike successes

Christiane Reppe (2016)

In 2013 Reppe turned to another sport, handbiking . Since then, the athlete, who lives in Dresden again, has been training under Ralf Lindschulten. In her first season she managed to get a medal place in all competitions.

During her first World Cup in Segovia, Spain, she qualified for her first World Championship in Greenville, USA thanks to two silver medals. A few weeks later, the newcomer won gold in the road race and bronze in the individual time trial.

After winter training, she achieved a podium finish in all World Cups in the 2015 competition season. At the Heidelberg Marathon 2015 she set a new world record in handbiking with a time of 1:00:26 and defended her world title in road racing. At the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro , she won the gold medal in the handbike road race.

At the UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships 2017 Reppe initially could not attend because of the German Disabled Sports Association not logged on time. Shortly before the start of the championships, however, the world association UCI gave in and allowed Reppe to participate in the championships. In the further course of the world championships, Reppe won gold in the time trial both over the distance of 15.5 km and over 42.5 km.

Paratriathlon

Christiane Reppe then switched to the paratriathlon and competed in her first competition in Madeira in October 2018 , which she won. At the beginning of September 2019 she won bronze at the World Championships in Lausanne , a few weeks later she became European champion in Valencia .

Awards

Reppe was awarded the Saint George's Order of the Dresden Semper Opera Ball in 2018 . In 2020 she was named Lower Saxony's sportswoman of the year.

Web links

Commons : Christiane Reppe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christiane Reppe ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. www.sunrisemedical.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sunrisemedical.de
  2. ↑ Team Sopur Quickie www.sunrisemedical.de
  3. ↑ "I was a little lucky with my body" www.tagesspiegel.de
  4. ↑ Berlin swim team www.berliner-schwnahmeam.de
  5. ↑ Women's world record at the 13th wheelchair marathon ( memento of the original from July 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. www.handbike.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / handbike.de
  6. ↑ Alexander Hiller: The forgotten Paralympics winner. In: sächsische.de. April 24, 2017. Retrieved November 27, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Reppe is allowed to attend the World Cup despite the registration failure. In: spiegel-online.de. August 29, 2017. Retrieved August 29, 2017 .
  8. ^ Christiane Reppe. In: German Triathlon Union . Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Sport1.de: Para-Triathlon: Silver for Schulz, Bronze for Reppe. In: sport1.de. September 2, 2019, accessed September 19, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Astrid Hofmann: Christiane Reppe from Dresden wins EM gold in the para-triathlon. In: sportbuzzer.de. September 17, 2019, accessed September 19, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Miroslav Klose and Christiane Reppe receive the Order of St. George for the Semper Opera Ball. In: radiolausitz.de. December 6, 2017, accessed March 10, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Christiane Reppe is disabled athlete of the year. In: ndr.de. March 6, 2020, accessed March 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Reppe, Christiane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German handbiker
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden