Jens Kroker

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Jens Kroker (born May 8, 1969 in Hamburg ) is a businessman and a successful German athlete. His greatest success was winning the three-man keelboat sailing competition at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in China . With three Paralympic medals (in addition to gold in 2008, silver in 2000 and 2012) and three world championship titles, he is the world's most successful sailor in the Paralympic three-man keelboat sonar.

Life

Jens Kroker was born in Hamburg. From 1990 he studied at the University of Hamburg with a degree in business administration . He then worked in various functions at BASF . From December 2008 to January 2014, he was Chief Financial Officer and, as Senior Vice President, responsible for South America. Most recently, as Senior Vice President, he was responsible for the detergents and cleaning agents business and formulation technologies in Europe. With his commercial expertise, he is currently accompanying the business development of the start-up and own family company Aktimed, with which he was seen in the fifth season of the TV show Die Höhle der Löwen in 2018 .

Jens Kroker is missing his left hand. As a sailor, he has participated in all Paralympic Games since 2000. He starts for the North German Regatta Club, the Yacht Club Berlin-Grünau and the 1st Water Sports Club Lausitzer Seenland. Since 2018 he has been a member of the Athletes Commission of the World Sailing Association.

For his success he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf three times (2000, 2008 and 2012) . He also received the Golden Badge of Honor from both the Berlin Grünau Yacht Club and the North German Regatta Club.

successes

Since the Summer Paralympics 2000 , the three-man keelboat in the Sonar boat class has been a competition in sailing . In this first competition he won the silver medal with Peter Münter and Hans-Peter Reichl .

At the Paralympic Games in Beijing in 2008, Kroker won the gold medal in a team with Robert Prem and Siegmund Mainka and four years later the silver medal in the same team in London .

At the 2016 Paralympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Kroker finished sixth.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d National team Jens Kroker - national team . September 24, 2015. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved on November 15, 2018.
  2. ↑ Xing profile
  3. ↑ Carsten Kemmling: Die Löwen- Tändiger, segelreporter.com, November 23, 2018, accessed on January 20, 2019
  4. ↑ Jens Kroker elected to Athletes' Commission. Retrieved October 31, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Award of the Silver Laurel Leaf by Federal President Joachim Gauck on November 7, 2012
  6. ↑ GOLDEN NEEDLE FOR HEIKO KRÖGER AND JENS KROKER ( Memento from May 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), September 11, 2012
  7. ^ Hamburger Morgenpost : German Paralympic sailors convince , October 24, 2000
personal data
SURNAME Kroker, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Paralympics winner (sailing)
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg