Henrike Handrup

Henrike Handrup

Henrike Handrup with training partner Udo Hempel on the track in Büttgen
To person
Date of birth	March 9, 1983
nation	Germany
discipline	Paracycling (B)
End of career	around 2014
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Last updated: March 4, 2017

Henrike Handrup (born March 9, 1983 in Wuppertal ) is a former German cyclist who competed in paracycling class B races for the visually impaired .

Athletic career

Henrike Handrup is blind from birth. Despite her visual impairment, she practices a variety of sports including skiing , skydiving , gymnastics, and rowing . When she was studying psychology at the University of Wuppertal , she met the successful handbiker Andrea Eskau , who encouraged her to get involved in cycling.

Since Handrup could not find a suitable club in Wuppertal, she then commuted to Freiburg im Breisgau to train there with a sighted pilot . In 2007, the then national coach Adelbert Kromer suggested the cyclist Ellen Heiny as a tandem partner . In 2009, the two athletes became vice world champions in road races and won bronze in the world championship in the 1000 meter time trial . In 2012 they competed in four disciplines at the Summer Paralympics in London , but could not place in the top ranks. The duo later trained with the Olympic track champion Udo Hempel on the cycling track in Kaarst-Büttgen . In the meantime, Handrup had to take a break in competitive sports due to an illness and finally ended her career.

Professional

Henrike Handrup is a trained psychotherapist . Until 2013 she worked for the Federal Center for Health Education and worked, among other things, on the campaign “Make children strong” for addiction prevention. Since then she has been working at the Helios University Hospital in Wuppertal (as of 2017).

successes

2009

• Vice World Champion - Road Race (with Ellen Heiny )
• World Championship - 1000 meter time trial (with Ellen Heiny )

Web links

• Portrait Henrike Handrup & Ellen Heiny on YouTube , June 1, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paralympics London 2012 press release. P. 70 , accessed on March 2, 2017 .  (PDF file)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Günter Hiege: Paralympics: In tandem through the Velodrome. (No longer available online.) In: wz.de. August 27, 2012, archived from the original on March 3, 2017 ; accessed on March 2, 2017 . 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.  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Henrike Handrup. In: Making children strong. September 9, 2012, accessed March 2, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Udo Hempel trained a blind cyclist. In: PressReader - Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung Grevenbroich. April 1, 2015, accessed March 3, 2017 . 
5. ^ Psycho-oncology - Wuppertal. In: Helios clinics. December 15, 2016, accessed March 2, 2017 .