Dieter Welsink

Dieter Welsink

Dieter Welsink (born November 12, 1957 in Marl ) is a German canoeist and healthcare entrepreneur. Together with Peter Czupryna he became world champion in the two-man Canadian 1979 in Jonquière ( Canada ).

Career

Welsink first came into contact with water sports in 1967 when he and his family had moved from Marl to Dormagen . After Welsink had tried swimming and athletics, he joined the WSC Bayer Dormagen. From then on, the then 10-year-old trained with Zons on the Rhine and Erft. In the club he quickly belonged to the competitive sports group. Welsink cast a spell over the sport after the Dormagen two-man Canadian around Theo Nüsing and Hans Jakob Hitz took part in the Olympics in 1972 in Munich.

In the years 1977–1979, the regular soldiers Welsink / Czupryna were assigned as members of the sports training company Sonthofen to the Federal Center for Canoe Slalom and white water in Augsburg, where they could train on the ice channel , the first artificial white water stretch. The sporting successes were not long in coming.

The first time Welsink / Czupryna took part in a world championship in 1977. The duo reached the climax of their sporting career two years later in 1979. In Jonquière (Canada, Quebec), the Dormagen canoeists Pierre Calori / Jacques Calori (Fra) and Wojciech Kudlik / Jerzy Jez (Pol) took second and third place won the world championship in canoe slalom . The duo was the youngest world championship team of all time. In 1981 Welsink / Czupryna narrowly missed another win and came second at the Canoe Slalom World Championships in Bala (Wales).

Welsink was able to win the German championship 16 times in a two-man Canadian. The two finished second in the European Cup in 1978 and 1980. In 1976–1982, Welsink / Czupryna were also members of the German national team. The successful duo was trained by Hans-Peter Köpping (club and national fee coach) and Günter Brümmer (national coach).

In 1982 Dieter Welsink was awarded the silver bay leaf. In 2009 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

education and profession

After graduating from the Bettina-von-Arnim-Gymnasium in Dormagen, Welsink studied sport at the Sport University in Cologne from 1979 . He specialized in rehabilitation and disabled sports and wrote his diploma thesis on the recovery process of national handball goalkeeper Andreas "Hexer" Thiel after a serious injury. Between 1983 and 1986 Welsink received a scholarship from the Deutsche Sporthilfe Foundation and completed training as a physiotherapist at the Düsseldorf University Hospital.

In 1986 Dieter Welsink founded his first practice for physiotherapy in Dormagen and thus laid the foundation for today's medicoreha Welsink group of companies, to which medicoreha Dr. Welsink Academy belongs.

Politically

Welsink gained his first experience in local politics in 1996 after he had been elected to the board of the sports association in the Rhein-Kreis Neuss. He headed the Kreissportbund as its chairman from 2002 to 2009. The former canoe slalom world champion has been a directly elected member of the district council with constituency in Neuss since 2004; since 2009 he has been chairing the CDU district parliamentary group. Dieter Welsink has been a member of the Neuss City Council since 2014.

In 2009 the district council of the Rhein-Kreis Neuss elected him President of the Board of Trustees of the Sparkassenstiftung Sport des Rhein-Kreis Neuss. Here he advocates the further development of talent promotion for young athletes with national and international careers in close cooperation with the Rhineland Olympic base, the NRW Sport Foundation and the regional sports clubs.

In addition to the field of sport and sports promotion, health policy is an important part of his local political work. As chairman (since 2007) of the health policy working group of the CDU in the Rhine district of Neuss, it is important to him to expand the efficiency of regional health care. In 2010 Dieter Welsink was co-opted into the plenary assembly of the Lower Rhine Chamber of Industry and Commerce, he was a member of the plenary assembly from 2011 to 2016. Since then he has been chairman of the newly established health management committee of the Lower Rhine Chamber of Commerce. In addition, Welsink is a delegate to the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) and also to the Health Management Committee there.

In federal politics, Dieter W. Welsink was involved in the German Association for Physiotherapy ZVK eV for many years . Since 2008 he has been a member of the discussion group on sport and competitive sport of the Federal CDU in Berlin and works on the CDU's sport policy program.

Dieter Welsink is a member of the Rotary Club Kaarst-Korschenbroich and active in various clubs, including the Grenadierzug Sportfreunde in 1987 at the Neuss shooting festival.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Canoe slalom team Germany - Dieter Welsink. Retrieved December 15, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Dieter Welsink receives the Federal Cross of Merit. Retrieved December 15, 2017 . 
3. ↑ medicoreha - About us. Retrieved December 15, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Dieter W. Welsink. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 15, 2017 ; accessed on December 15, 2017 . 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. ↑ Welsink initiated Netzwerk Gesundheit. Retrieved December 15, 2017 .