Elena Kravtsov

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Elena Krawzow (born October 26, 1993 in Nowowoskresenowka , Kazakhstan ) is a German swimmer. Her greatest achievement is winning the silver medal in the 100m breaststroke at the 2012 Paralympics in London. A year later she became world champion over this route.

Life

At the age of 11, Krawzow and her parents moved from Kazakhstan to Germany (Bamberg) in 2005 as a repatriate . She has Russian and German roots. At the age of seven, she suffered from hereditary disease Stargardt's disease , which severely restricts vision and leads to long-term blindness. At the age of 12 she changed schools and went to the training center for the blind and visually impaired (bbs) in Nuremberg . Only when he was 13 years old did Krawzow learn to swim. The director of the bbs leisure center, Michael Heuer, became aware of her and directed her interest to swimming. You train at TSV Altenfurt with coach Günter Zirkelbach. On the national level, Krawzow started for the Association for the Disabled, Disabled and Rehabilitation Sports (BVSV).

Krawzow completed her training as a physiotherapist in August 2015 . At the same time, the move from Nuremberg to Berlin and the start for the Berlin swimming team of the Paralympic Sports Club Berlin (PSC Berlin) followed. Your trainer is Phillip Semechin.

Due to the hereditary disease Stargardt's disease , which severely restricts vision, she is classified in the starting class S13.

successes

Paralympic Games

2012 in London ( United Kingdom )

  • 2nd place over 100 m chest
  • 8th place over 50 m freestyle

World championships

Para World Cup 2019 London

  • 1st place over 100 m chest

IPC World Cup 2013

  • 1st place over 100 m chest
  • 3rd place over 50 m freestyle

IBSA World Championships for the Visually Impaired 2011

  • 1st place over 50 m freestyle
  • 1st place over 100 m freestyle
  • 1st place over 100 m chest
  • 1st place over 200 m layers

European championships

2018

  • 1st place over 100 m chest
  • 1st place over 50 m freestyle
  • 1st place over 200 m medley
  • 3rd place over 100 m freestyle
  • 3rd place over 100 m butterfly

2016

  • 1st place over 100 m chest
  • 4th place over 100 m back
  • 6th place over 50 m freestyle
  • 6th place over 200 m medley
  • 7th place over 400 m freestyle

2014

  • 1st place over 100 m chest
  • 3rd place over 200 m medley
  • 3rd place over 50 m freestyle
  • 5th place over 400 m freestyle
  • 6th place over 100 m freestyle

2011

  • 4th place over 100 m chest
  • 4th place over 50 m freestyle
  • 5th place over 200 m medley
  • 5th place over 100 m freestyle

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Weise: Late starter is aiming for gold at the Paralympics in Rio. In: www.morgenpost.de. Retrieved September 6, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Паралимпийка Елена Кравцова едет в Рио за медалью для Германии. In: liveberlin.ru. Retrieved February 27, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Nürnberger Nachrichten, September 8, 2016, p. 22: From refugee child to winner
  4. ↑ My clubs - Elena Krawzow. In: elenakrawzow.de. Retrieved September 5, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b Junior Sportsman of the Year 2013 - Winner of Disabled Sports - Deutsche Sporthilfe. (No longer available online.) In: www.sporthilfe.de. Archived from the original on September 14, 2016 ; accessed on September 6, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sporthilfe.de
  6. ↑ Elena Krawzow is Allianz Sportswoman of the Month for June. Retrieved September 6, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Kravtsov, Elena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Novowoskresenowka