Heinrich Köberle
Heinrich Köberle (born October 11, 1946 ) is a German racing wheelchair driver .
Life
As a severely disabled person, Heinrich Köberle is dependent on a wheelchair . Despite this severe disability, he wanted to play actively. He chose athletics as the discipline and, within this division, the wheelchair marathon , which became an Olympic discipline in 1984. At the 1984 Paralympic Games in New York , he was with the German athletics team. He was the only one of three participants in the wheelchair marathon in performance group 1A to reach the finish line and thus won the gold medal in a time of 3: 41.47 hours.
He repeated this success at the Paralympic Games in Seoul in 1988 and in Barcelona in 1992 , where he also won the marathon, but this time against more competitors.
He won his fourth gold medal in the wheelchair marathon at the 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta . Here he won in the time of 2: 49.11 h.
For winning the gold medal in 1992 he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker in 1993.
Web links
- The successes of the German athletes at the PARALYMPICS on paralympics.de
- Heinrich Koeberle | International Paralympic Committee on paralympic.org
- A wheelchair marathon legend - Invacare on invacare.de
- RBSJ SH eV: news detail on rbsj.de
- Ronny Ziesmer gave a press conference in Kienbaum on dtb.de.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sports Report of the Federal Government to the Bundestag, Document 14 / 171o, page 51: "Since 1992, the medalist of the Paralympic Games are awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf."
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Köberle, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Köberle, Heini |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German racing wheelchair user |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1946 |