Daniela Jutzeler

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Daniela Jutzeler (born April 14, 1967 in Glarus ; † August 5, 1994 in Littau ) was a Swiss athlete . The racing wheelchair user rode from short, medium and long distances to marathons .

Life

Daniela Jutzeler was the second of three children of Doris and Paul Jutzeler to be born in Glarus. At that time the family was running a butcher's shop in Näfels . The family later moved to Littau. As a teenager, Daniela Jutzeler did a lot of sports such as horse riding, skiing and water sports. Her life partner was the teacher, journalist and pilot Bruno Schaller .

Paraplegia

On April 5, 1985, an accident occurred while Daniela Jutzeler was preparing for a family ski trip. In her memoir, she described the moment: “I took the ski suit out of my parents' closet. A light rifle was propped against the back wall. The rifle gets caught on the trigger and falls to the ground. When picked up, a jammed shot is released with a shrill bang. I feel a stabbing pain, scream and suddenly fall to the ground. "

The bullet shot through her lungs and hit the spinal cord. Daniela Jutzeler has been paraplegic since then and spent her life as a paraplegic in a wheelchair.

rehabilitation

After the first treatment of the life-threatening injuries in the Canton Hospital Lucerne and the Canton Hospital Aarau, she was transferred to the Paraplegic Center in Basel. It was treated by Guido A. Zäch , among others . He remained a mentor and sponsor for many years. She supported his medical, social and political struggle in Switzerland for equality for disabled people in wheelchairs and thus the model of holistic rehabilitation.

Others

Daniela Jutzeler spent the winter months in her house in New Port Richey near Tampa . Together with her partner Bruno Schaller, she founded the quarterly magazine “Go ahead”, which was published by the Swiss Paraplegic Association . She earned her further living with prize money from races, as a works driver for the wheelchair company Top End, by sponsoring the Lucerne company Numis and as a columnist for the Neue Luzerner Zeitung .

Deadly accident

Daniela Jutzeler died on August 5, 1994 on her training route between Littau and Malters when she was run over by a delivery truck. Today's tomb in Littau was created by the paraplegic artist Alfredo Battistini . It bears the inscription "Amigos Para Siempre".

After her death, Franz Nietlispach, Heinz Frei and Erwin Zemp, together with Daniela Jutzeler's parents, founded the "Daniela Jutzeler Foundation" to promote young wheelchair athletes. Since then, a "Daniela Jutzeler Memorial" has been held alternately in Ibach , Pratteln and Nottwil every year in the form of an international, full-day and homologated rail meeting.

Sporting activity

Daniela Jutzeler first set new records in national and later in international wheelchair racing . Her greatest successes include victories at the marathons in Berlin , Paris , Solothurn, Montreal, Frankfurt , Lausanne and Munich . At the legendary Boston Marathon , however, she could never achieve a podium.

At the Paralympics in Seoul in 1988 she was second over 400 meters and third over 1500 meters and in 1992 she reached third place over 100 meters at the 1992 Paralympics in Barcelona . At the world championships in Assen she won over 200 and 400 meters and broke the world record over this distance.

Sporting successes

SR: Swiss
record WR: World record

1987
  • Swiss Championships Freiburg (1. 200 m / 400 m, 2. 100 m - new SR)
  • International Stoke Mandeville Games (1. 200 m, 2. 100 m / 400 m, 3. 800 m)
  • World Championship Rome (6,800 m - new SR)
1988
1989
1990
  • Swiss Championship Langenthal (1. 100/200 m / 400 m / 800 m / 1500 m / 5000 m - new SR over all distances)
  • Berlin Marathon (1st) in 1:57:47
  • Detroit Marathon (2nd)
  • Los Angeles Marathon (3rd)
  • Crescent City Classic New Orleans (1st)
  • Schenkon Marathon (3rd)
  • Boston Marathon (4th)
  • World Championship Assen (1,200 m - new SR, 1,400 m / new WR, 2,400 m)
1991
  • Swiss Championship Wil (1. 100 m / 200 m / 400 m / 800 m - new WR / 1500 m / 5000 m - new SR over all distances)
  • Pre-Olympics Barcelona (3 1500 m - new SR / 6,800 m - new SR)
  • Los Angeles Marathon (3rd)
  • Boston Marathon (4th)
  • Montreal Marathon (1st)
  • Solothurn Marathon (1st)
  • Detroit Marathon (1st)
  • World Championships Tokyo (2,800 m - new SR)
  • Stoke Mandeville Games (3. 1500 m / 10'000 m)
1992
  • Swiss Championship Zug (1. 100 m - new SR, 200 m, 400 m, 1500 m, 5000 m, 10,000 m)
  • Los Angeles Marathon (4th)
  • Gasparilla Classic Tampa (2nd)
  • Peachtree Roadtree Atlanta (5th)
  • Schenkon Marathon (5th)
  • Karlsruhe Marathon (2nd)
  • Berlin Marathon (4th)
  • Frankfurt Marathon (1st)
  • Paralympics Barcelona (3. 100 m / 4. 5000 m / 6. 800 m / - new SR, 6. 1500 m - new SR, 7. 200 m - new SR, 7. 400 m - new SR, 7th marathon)
1993
  • Swiss Championship Nottwil (1. 100 m - new SR / 200 m, 400 m / 800 m / 1500 m / 5000 m)
  • Los Angeles Marathon (5th)
  • Solothurn Marathon (1st)
  • Paris Marathon (1st)
  • Heidelberg Marathon (2nd)
  • Lausanne Marathon (1st)
  • Aarhus Games (6,100 m)
1994
  • Qantas 10-K Oz Day Sydney (4th)
  • Boston Marathon (5th)
  • Munich Marathon (1st)
  • Schenkon Marathon (2nd)
  • Aarhus Games (3,800 m)
  • World Championships Berlin (3. 100 m / 4. 200 m / 4. 800 m / 6. 800 m / 7. 1500 m / 7. 5000 m)

Varia

Shortly before her death, on February 1, 1994, a PTT telephone card (Taxcard) for five francs with a photo of Daniela Jutzeler was issued.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniela Jutzeler Memorial, May 30, 2013 , entry on the rollstuhlsportevents.ch website, accessed on March 22, 2015.
  2. ^ From Pratteln via Nottwil to London. (PDF; 249 kB) ( Memento from December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Paracontact. 1/2012, p. 40, accessed on March 22, 2015.
  3. ↑ Statistics and History, History section 2013–1986 on the Berlin Marathon website, accessed on March 22, 2015.
  4. ^ Exclusive Taxcard-Daniela Jutzeler in the directory colnect.com, accessed on March 22, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Jutzeler, Daniela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss wheelchair athlete
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Glarus
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1994
Place of death Littau LU