Kay Espenhayn
Kay Espenhayn (born August 20, 1968 in Leipzig ; † September 15, 2002 there ) was a German swimmer in disabled sports .
Life
Kay Espenhayn attended the POS in Leipzig from 1975 to 1985 , then completed a social year and began an apprenticeship as an MTA in 1986 . From 1989 she worked in this profession in the Deaconess Hospital Leipzig and later in the St. Georg Clinic in Leipzig in nutritional diagnostics.
Since the beginning of 1993 she had been paralyzed on the limbs after a herniated disc operation below the lumbar vertebrae. She became a member of the disabled sports club in Leipzig and began swimming with the coach Hanno Mertens. She swam in all four Olympic disciplines on distances from 50 meters to 200 meters. Even when four more vertebrae were injured in a car accident in 1995, she continued her training and achieved success at the German Championships, the European Championships and the Paralympic Games .
Kay Espenhayn has been an ambassador for the UNICEF Children's Fund since 2001 .
Her athletic competitor Mayumi Narita visited Athens in 2004 after the Paralympics with a Japanese television team in Leipzig to shoot a report about Kay Espenhayn. She presented her mother Monika Espenhayn at the grave of Kay Espenhayn one of the gold medals she had won in Athens.
successes
- 1994: German championships: 2 × German champion, 3 × second
- 1995: German championships: 2 × German champion, 4 × second
- 1995: European Championships Perpignan : 4 × European champion, 1 × runner-up
- 1996: German championships: 6 × German champion
- 1996: Paralympics Atlanta : 3 gold medals, 2 silver medals, 1 bronze medal
- 2000: Paralympics Sydney : 5 silver medals
- 2001: European Championships Stockholm : 6 × European Champion, 1 × third
Kay Espenhayn set several world records, including in 1996 in Atlanta over 150 meters medley (2: 56.98 min), 2000 in Berlin over 100 meters back (1: 52.72 min) and 2001 in Stockholm over 50 meters back ( 48.93 sec).
Honors
- 1996: Saxony's sportswoman of the year
- 1997: picture Osgar
- 1997, 2001: Silver bay leaf
- 1999: Entry in the Golden Book of the Free State of Saxony
- 2000, 2001: Leipzig Sportswoman of the Year
- 2003: Posthumous award of the Saxon sports crown "Lifetime Achievement"
- 2004: Planting of a godfather tree with a stele and dedication sign at the Arena Leipzig
Since 2005, the Sportoberschule Leipzig has held an annual Kay Espenhayn memorial run (now known as the Kay Espenhayn charity run ).
Several of her medals and certificates are exhibited in the Leipzig Sports Museum.
literature
- Bernd Eusemann: Leipzig's famous daughters and sons. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8313-2300-5 .
- Monika Espenhayn (Ed.): I just want to swim. Portrait of Paralympic athlete Kay Espenhayn. With a foreword by Wolfgang Tiefensee . Plöttner, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-86211-058-2 .
Web links
- Ingeburg Zeidler: Biographies of historical women personalities: Sport - Kay Espenhayn ( Memento from July 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- Obituaries from the Leipziger Volkszeitung and BV Leipzig ( memento from October 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Kay Espenhayn in the database of Find a Grave (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ A life dedicated to sport - Paralympic winner Kay Espenhayn. ( Memento of August 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (StippVisite 1/2005, p. 24)
- ↑ a b c Ingeburg Zeidler: Biographies of historical women personalities: Sport - Kay Espenhayn ( Memento from July 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Kay Espenhayn charity run on the website of the Sportoberschule Leipzig
- ↑ Kay Espenhayn in the object database of the City History Museum Leipzig
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Espenhayn, Kay |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German swimmer in disabled sports |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th August 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 2002 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |