Franziska Liebhardt

Franziska Liebhardt
nation	Germany
birthday	5th January 1982
place of birth	Berlin, Germany
job	Child Physiotherapist
Career
discipline	Shot put ( F37 ), long jump ( T37 )
society	TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Trainer	Steffi Nerius
Medal table
Paralympic Games gold 2016 Rio de Janeiro Shot put silver 2016 Rio de Janeiro Long jump

Franziska Liebhardt (born January 5, 1982 in Berlin ) is a German athlete in disabled sports . She specializes in the shot put , but also competes in the long jump . She starts in the starting class T / F 37 (athletes with one-sided spastic paralysis).

Life

Franziska Liebhardt is a physiotherapist who specializes in neuro and social pediatrics. Due to a severe, systemic autoimmune disease , she had a lung transplant in 2009 and a kidney transplant in 2012. An involvement of the brain in the disease also led to the spastic paralysis, on the basis of which Franziska Liebhardt is classified in disabled sports. The disease affects numerous organs and organ systems and progresses.

As a victim, Liebhardt is strongly committed to organ donation . She is mainly active in the association "Athletes for Organ Donation" and for "Children's Aid Organ Transplantation". She collects donations, gives lectures, designs organ donation projects and promotes organ donation in interviews and in various campaigns. She also advocates better organ donation legislation in Germany.

Liebhardt was also active as a rescue dog handler at the Bavarian Red Cross in Würzburg, but this activity is suspended.

Athletic career

Franziska Liebhardt has competed for TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen since 2014 and trains there in a training group with the long jumper and Paralympic winner Markus Rehm, who has amputated the lower leg . Your trainer is the former javelin world champion from 2009, Steffi Nerius . Before that, Franziska Liebhardt started for the Vitalsportverein (VSV) Würzburg. In 2014 she was nominated for the first time by the German Disabled Sports Association for international championships in IPC athletics.

Before she discovered athletics as a competitive sport in 2009, she played volleyball . She played on the middle blocker position in the state, Bavaria and finally regional league until she had to give up the sport because of her serious illness.

Before Liebhardt switched to Paralympic sport in 2013, she was active in international organ transplant championships. After winning several European and World Championship titles among organ transplant recipients (from 2009 to 2013), she was looking for a new challenge. Liebhardt found the transplant sport to be insufficiently performance-oriented, so she switched to Paralympic professional sport at TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen in 2014.

In 2014, Liebhardt won a silver medal in the shot put and a bronze medal in the long jump on her IPC European Championship debut in Swansea, Wales.

At the IPC World Championships 2015, Franziska Liebhardt won the silver medal in the shot put after a thrilling duel with the Chinese Mi Na with a new European record of 13.39 m. and barely scratched gold. Surprisingly, she also won the silver medal in the long jump, she jumped 4.57 m.

In May 2016 Liebhardt took back her world record from the Chinese Mi and hit the ball in Breda, the Netherlands, to an outstanding 13.82 m. At the 2016 European Championships in Grosseto, Italy, Liebhardt won the gold medal in the shot put with 13.62 m and the silver medal with a new German record of 4.73 m in the long jump.

During her active time, Liebhardt was part of the "Top Team Rio 2016" of the German Disabled Sports Association and of the "Elite Team NRW" of the Sportstiftung NRW .

At the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro , Liebhardt won the shot put in the F37 class with a world record distance of 13.96 meters and won the silver medal in the long jump in the F37 class with a distance of 4.42 meters.

For these achievements she received the Silver Laurel Leaf on November 1, 2016 .

At the end of 2016, Liebhardt ended her sporting career at the height of her success.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Susanne Rohlfing: Rio and the magical 14m mark. ZDF Sport, accessed on July 17, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Frankfurter Neue Presse: Prize- worthy: Athletes get involved in organ donation | Frankfurter Neue Presse. Retrieved July 17, 2016 . 
3. ^ BRK Würzburg: New rescue dog at the BRK. BRK, July 19, 2013, accessed July 17, 2016 . 
4. ^ TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen: Profile Franziska Liebhardt. (No longer available online.) TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen, archived from the original on July 17, 2016 ; Retrieved July 17, 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. ↑ Transplant World Cup Franziska Liebhardt wins three gold medals. Mainpost, July 20, 2011, accessed July 17, 2016 . 
6. ^ Silver and European record for shot putter Franziska Liebhardt. Sport 1, accessed July 17, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Paralympic Games: Women's shot put F37 | final | 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships Doha. October 24, 2015, accessed July 17, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Not counting on a medal, Franziska Liebhardt in an interview with ZDF reporter Marc Windgassen. (No longer available online.) ZDF, October 28, 2015, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 17, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
9. ↑ German Disabled Sports Association: Franziska Liebhardt tops the world record. May 24, 2016. Retrieved July 17, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Paralympic Games: Women's shot put F37 | final | 2016 IPC Athletics European Championships Grosseto. June 22, 2016. Retrieved July 17, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Paralympic Games: Women's long jump T37 | final | 2016 IPC Athletics European Championships Grosseto. June 13, 2016. Retrieved July 17, 2016 . 
12. ↑ Profile Franziska Liebhardt, DBS Top Team. German Disabled Sports Association, accessed on July 17, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Sportstiftung NRW: Athlete Profile. (No longer available online.) In: www.sportstiftung-nrw.de. Archived from the original on July 17, 2016 ; Retrieved July 17, 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.  
14. ↑ Franziska Liebhardt wins gold - with a world record. Retrieved September 14, 2016 . 
15. ↑ Gold medal at the 2016 Paralympics in the shot put. Retrieved September 15, 2016 . 
16. ↑ Silver medal at the Paralympics 2016 in the long jump. Retrieved September 15, 2016 . 
17. ↑ Press release from the Office of the Federal President of November 1, 2016: Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf. Retrieved March 31, 2017 . 

Web links

• Athlete portrait on paralympic.org - accessed September 15, 2016
• Athlete portrait on deutsche-paralympische-mannschaft.de - accessed on September 15, 2016