Hermann Nortmann

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Hermann Nortmann (born June 30, 1955 ) is a former German disabled athlete and multiple participant in Paralympic Games .

Career

Hermann Nortmann comes from the Emsland . As a result of a serious motorcycle accident , he has been paraplegic since 1976 and is dependent on a wheelchair . Finding himself for the archery interested and competitive sports would operate, he founded in 1988 in Werlte the Bogensportcub Werlte e. V. and became its 1st chairman.

He was soon one of the top German athletes in wheelchair archery. In 1992 he was a member of the German team at the Paralympic Summer Games . He successfully participated in both individual and team archery competitions. In the team fight he won the German team and thus a gold medal, while he was second in the individual and thus reached the silver medal. He was also successful at the 1996 Summer Paralympics and won a gold medal with the wheelchair team. He was also at the Paralympic Games in 2000 and 2004 with the German team, but without reaching the medal ranks.

He then devoted himself to building up his club in Werlte, especially its disabled area. In 2010 he took part again in a German championship and was German champion in his age group in Karlsruhe .

Awards

Paralympic Games

event Award discipline
New York & Stoke Mandeville 1984 gold Slalom class 2
silver Pentathlon class 2
bronze Javelin class 2
Seoul 1988 bronze Javelin class 2
gold Pentathlon class 2
Barcelona 1992 bronze Archery teams class AR2
silver Archery single class AR2
Atlanta 1996 gold Archery teams class W1 / W2

Awards in Germany

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The archery team in Sydney paralympics.de. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
  2. ↑ Archer Nortmann at the top of the list. In: Nordwestzeitung . March 18, 2005. Accessed March 12, 2020.
  3. ^ Archery Club Werlte. Retrieved March 12, 2020 .
  4. ^ Hermann Nortmann paralympic.org. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
  5. ^ Dieter Kremer: Archery: Nortmann again German champion. In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , August 20, 2014. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
  6. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V.:VIBSS: ... on May 23, 1993, Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker awarded disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 1992, with the silver laurel leaf ...
  7. ^ [1] , Hermann Nortmann, additional information, Silbernes Lorbeerblatt 1993
  8. ^ Entry on Hermann Nortmann in the Hall of Fame / Honorary Portal of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History
personal data
SURNAME Nortmann, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German disabled athlete
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1955