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Elmar Sommer (born November 25, 1959 ) is a German disabled athlete who plays standing volleyball and beach volleyball .

Life

Elmar Sommer is severely disabled and competes in category A (limb malformation on the left hand). From 1975 he played for BSG Saarwellingen (also TV Bildstock , TV Elversberg and TV Nalbach ), with which he won the German championship nine times. Because of his achievements, he was appointed to the German national handicapped volleyball team in 1983. He completed around 250 international matches and became captain of the national team, with which he won a total of four world champions, two world cup and five European titles in standing volleyball and won gold medals three times at the Paralympics.

First became world champions in summer 1989 and 1990 and European champions in 1993 and 1995. In 1992 the German team won the Summer Paralympics in Barcelona. She did the same at the 1996 Paralympic Summer Games . In the line-up of Elmar Sommer, Rudolf Schwietering , Pavo Grgic , Manfred Kohl , Jens Altmann , Stefan Kaiser , Karl-Josef Weißenfels , Oliver Müller , Andreas Johann , Bernard Schmidl and Josef Giebel , the German volleyball team won the final there and thus secured the gold medal . Also at the following Summer Paralympics 2000 in Sydney, Sommer won the gold medal with the German team. For this success he was awarded the silver bay leaf three times . He later achieved first places at the World Cup in Phnom Penh (2007, 2009, 2011) and the 2008 World Championships in Handlová .

Standing volleyball has not been Paralympic since 2000, and since 2014 the German national volleyball team for the disabled has concentrated entirely on beach volleyball. The sport also changed in summer and is currently a captain of the German national beach volleyball team for the disabled. After a long break from injury, he won an international tournament in Aqtau with the German team in 2015 .

Sommer is also involved as a volleyball trainer. He was the youth squad coach of the Saarland volleyball association. In 2012 he went to TV Quiigart , where he coaches the second men's team and the male U18 and U20.

Sommer lives in Spiesen and is a civil servant.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Olympic champion, world and European champion at TV Quiigart. saarbruecker-zeitung.de, June 25, 2012. Accessed November 4, 2019.
  2. ^ The volleyball team in Sydney, Elmar Sommer. paralympics.de. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
  3. ^ Volleyball - Men's Standing Volleyball, Host City, Atlanta. paralympic.org. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
  4. ↑ Elmar Sommer paralympic.org. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
  5. ↑ Sports report from the federal government to the Bundestag - printed matter 14/1710 - page 51. .. since 1992 the medal winners of the Paralympic Games have also been awarded the silver laurel leaf ...
  6. ↑ a b Elmar Sommer dbs-volleyball.de. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
  7. ↑ The German national beach volleyball teams for the disabled. dbs-volleyball.de. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Summer, Elmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German disabled athlete
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1959