David Behre

David Behre
nation	Germany
birthday	09/13/1986
Career
discipline	100-meter run ( T43 ) 200-meter run ( T43 ) 400-meter run ( T43 ) Relay ( T43 )
Best performance	100 m: 11.26 s
society	TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Trainer	Karl-Heinz Düe
Medal table
Paralympic Games gold 2016 Rio de Janiero 4 × 100 m silver 2016 Rio de Janiero 400 m bronze 2016 Rio de Janiero 200 m bronze 2012 London 4 × 100 m

David Behre (born September 13, 1986 in Duisburg ) is a German athlete specializing in sprint competitions in the T43 starting class . He is a world champion and participant in the Paralympics .

Personal

Behre suffered a serious accident on September 8, 2007 at the age of 20 in his hometown of Moers , in which he was hit by a train and both lower legs were severed. During his subsequent stay in hospital, he saw a television report about the sprinter Oscar Pistorius , who was also amputated below the knee , and from then on devoted himself to disabled sports .

Career

At the IWAS World Athletics Championships in Bangalore , India in 2009, Behre was among other things vice world champion in the sprint over 200 meters with a time of 24.56 s and world champion in the sprint relay over 4 x 100 meters. Two years later, he became the European record holder and runner-up in the 400 meter world championship in Christchurch, New Zealand . In his first Paralympics participation in August 2012, he won the bronze medal with the German sprint relay after the Brazilian and American sprint relay were disqualified after a substitution error and Germany moved from 5th to 3rd place. In 2013 he won the bronze medal over 200 meters at the World Championships in Lyon . Over 400 meters, he won the gold medal in 48.42 s at the 2015 World Championships in Qatar. At the Paralympic Games in Brazil in 2016 , Behre won the bronze medal over 200 meters, the silver medal over 400 meters and, in a team with Markus Rehm , Felix Streng , Johannes Floors, the gold medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay.

For his sporting successes at the 2016 Paralympic Games, he received the Silver Laurel Leaf on November 1, 2016 . Together with his relay colleagues, he was named Disabled Sports Team of the Year in 2016.

He is currently training at TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen .

Others

David Behre is an accident ambassador for the ERGO insurance group and is committed to the inclusion of disabled people. He also acts as a motivational speaker and motivates people who have lost limbs in an accident. In November 2013 he published his biography Sprint back to life , in which he describes his experiences and provides insights into his life.

Web links

• The fastest German without feet , Quarks & Co Talk, September 18, 2012

• http://www.maz-online.de/Lokales/Havelland/Sprintstar-ohne-Fuesse

Individual evidence

1. ↑ David Behre: BRONZE relay 4x100m. (No longer available online.) Ministry for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, archived from the original on January 16, 2014 ; accessed on January 15, 2014 . 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.  
2. ↑ Behre brings world championship gold over 400 meters. sport1.de, accessed on October 27, 2015 . 
3. ↑ German Disabled Sports Association eV: Behre takes bronze, floors with the best time over 200 meters - German Paralympic team. In: www.deutsche-paralympische-mannschaft.de. Retrieved September 24, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Paralympics 2016: Paralympics: Germany sixth in the medal table. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 24, 2016 ; accessed on September 24, 2016 . 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.  
5. ↑ Press release from the Office of the Federal President of November 1, 2016: Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf. Retrieved March 31, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Profile of David Behre at TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 7, 2014 ; Retrieved April 6, 2014 . 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.  
7. ↑ Buchhandel.de: Behre, David: Sprint back to life. Retrieved April 5, 2014 .