Heiko Wiesenthal
Heiko Wiesenthal (born February 12, 1975 in Mayen ) is a German sitting volleyball player and captain of the German national sitting volleyball team. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics , he won the bronze medal with the team. Before that he was a successful fistball player .
Life
Wiesenthal completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter. While doing his military service in the German armed forces, he suffered an electrical accident in 1995 when loading a tank onto a freight car when he touched a high- voltage overhead line . As a result, the left lower leg had to be amputated . Wiesenthal retrained and became an occupational therapist . He works at the Koblenz-Montabaur Clinic .
Athletic career
Fistball
Before his accident, Wiesenthal played successfully fistball and won the German championship twice with the Rot-Weiß Koblenz . After a one and a half year break, he resumed his sport using a lower leg prosthesis and later became German champion again. In the course of this, Wiesenthal played for TV Vaihingen / Enz . He was a defender.
Sitting volleyball
In 2009 he moved to TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen where he plays sitting volleyball. He was also appointed to the national team in 2009 and later became the captain. Wiesenthal plays in the position of an attacker.
Sporting successes
Sitting volleyball
National team
- Paralympics 2012 : bronze medal
- Paralympics 2016 : Play for 5th place
- World Championship 2010: 6th place
- European Championship 2011: bronze medal
society
- World Cup 2010: silver medal
- European Cup 2011: bronze medal
- German champion: 2010, 2011, 2012
Fistball
- German champion: 3 ×
- Junior European Champion
- Vice European Cup winner
Awards
- Silver bay leaf 2012
- Georg von Opel Prize 1997
Web links
- Data from Heiko Wiesenthal on the TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen site
- Article about Heiko Wiesenthal on the SWR website
- Article about Heiko Wiesenthal on the picture page
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief portrait on the Sportschau website
- ↑ Article on the website of the Disabled Sports Association
- ↑ Article on the website of the Disabled Sports Association
- ↑ Article on the Baden online page
- ↑ Semifinals missed article on the Dresden Latest News page
- ↑ Article on the website of the Disabled Sports Association
- ↑ List of those who were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf in 2012 on the website of the Federal President
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wiesenthal, Heiko |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sitting volleyball and fistball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mayen |