Maike Hausberger

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Maike Hausberger Road cycling
To person
Date of birth January 9, 1995
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Paracycling (C2)
Societies)
Post sports club Trier
Most important successes
UCI Paracycling Road World Championships
2019 World Champion - road race
Last updated: September 17, 2019

Maike Hausberger (born January 9, 1995 in Trier ) is a German paracycler , paratriathlete and former para-athlete .

Athletic career

Maike Hausberger was born with paralysis on one side of the left side of the body (left spastic hemiparesis ). Regardless of her disability, she was always very athletic and initially active in para-athletics. In 2012 she was runner-up in the European long jump and 4 x 100 meter relay , and in 2014 she won bronze in the relay.

At the Summer Paralympics 2012 in London, Hausberger finished fifth in the 400-meter run and ninth in the long jump . Four years later, at the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro , she was fourth in the long jump.

After a long ankle injury, Hausberger started in the paratriathlon and came third at the 2017 World Championships and second at the European Championships in the same year. After learning that triathlon at the Summer Paralympics 2020 in Tokyo would not be on the program, she switched to Para Cycling. At her first World Championship start at the UCI Paracycling Road World Championships 2019 in Emmen , the Netherlands , she became world champion in road racing; in the time trial, she finished fourth. At the rail world championships the following year, she won bronze in the pursuit .

Honors

In 2012 Maike Hausberger was awarded the young talent award of the State Sports Association of Rhineland-Palatinate .

successes

Paracycling

Street

2019

train

2020

Paratriathlon

2017
  • bronze - World Championships
  • silver - European championships

Para athletics

2012
  • silver European Championships (T37) - long jump, 4 × 100 m
2014
  • bronze European Championships (T37) - 4 × 100 m

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Para-Cycling World Championships: Maike Hausberger - via Emmen to Tokyo. In: sportschau.de. September 11, 2019, accessed September 16, 2019 .
  2. "Shining role models for all of us". In: lsb-rlp.de. January 14, 2013, accessed September 17, 2019 .