Manfred Emmel

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Manfred Emmel (born October 8, 1945 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German athlete.

Career

Manfred Emmel grew up in the northeastern Frankfurt district of Seckbach immediately after the war as a child of a long-established family there and attended the local Zentgrafenschule . Since childhood, he was active in sports and entered at the age of nine years in 1954 in the gymnastics club Seckbach 1875 in order to table tennis exercise. After attending school, he began training as an electrician in 1960.

A turning point occurred on August 1, 1963 at the age of 17 when Emmel suffered a serious swimming accident. After a year of inpatient stay in the local accident insurance clinic in Frankfurt am Main , an irreversible spinal cord injury remained. The accident occurred three weeks before the planned final electrician exam .

After a mental and physical reorientation, Emmel started a new professional training as an electronics technician in Waldkraiburg in Upper Bavaria . After successfully completing this training and returning to Frankfurt, he also returned to his old club to continue playing table tennis successfully - now in a wheelchair . For more than seven years he later devoted himself to youth care as a trainer.

When the Hessian Disabled Sports Association for Paraplegics was founded in the BG Unfallklinik Frankfurt in 1967 (renamed the Wheelchair Sports Club Frankfurt in 1978 ), Emmel was also active there and was active as a trainer during the development phase of the table tennis department. As a result, he took part in German championships, European and world championships as well as the world games for the disabled (from 1988 Paralympic Games ). After the Paralympics in Seoul in 1988 , Emmel withdrew from national and international sporting events in favor of his family, but remained active in sports at TV Seckbach. To this day he has been involved on a voluntary basis at club and association level, since 1987 with the German Wheelchair Sports Association and since 1994 with the Wheelchair Sports Club Frankfurt.

Functions

  • Chairman of the Wheelchair Sport Club Frankfurt e. V.

Sporting successes

  • 13-time German champion in table tennis singles
  • 10-time German champion in table tennis doubles
  • 7-time European champion in table tennis
  • 1987 in Australia two-time world champion in table tennis singles and doubles
  • 1968 Paralympics in Tel Aviv , Israel : gold medal in table tennis singles, silver medal in table tennis doubles, gold medal and world record in 25-meter breaststroke, silver medal in 25-meter backstroke, silver medal in 25-meter freestyle swimming
  • 1972 Paralympics in Heidelberg , Germany: silver medal in table tennis singles, silver medal in table tennis doubles
  • 1976 Paralympics in Toronto , Canada : gold medal in table tennis singles, silver medal in table tennis doubles, silver medal in discus throwing, silver medal in 25-meter breaststroke, silver medal in 25-meter freestyle swimming
  • 1980 Paralympics in Arnhem , the Netherlands : gold medal in table tennis singles, gold medal in table tennis doubles, silver medal in 25-meter freestyle swimming, gold medal and world record in 3 × 25-meter freestyle swimming
  • 1984 Paralympics in New York City , USA / Stoke Mandeville , Great Britain : gold medal in table tennis singles, silver medal in table tennis doubles
  • 1988 Paralympics in Seoul, South Korea : gold medal in table tennis singles, gold medal in table tennis doubles

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Athlete Research Results at: paralympic.org
  2. ↑ Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games Table Tennis Men's Singles A2 on: paralympic.org
  3. ↑ Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games Table Tennis Men's Doubles A2 on: paralympic.org
  4. ↑ Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games Swimming Men's 25 m Breaststroke class 1 incomplete on: paralympic.org
  5. ↑ Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games Swimming Men's 25 m Backstroke class 1 incomplete on: paralympic.org
  6. ↑ Tel Aviv 1968 Paralympic Games Swimming Men's 25 m Freestyle class 1 incomplete on: paralympic.org
  7. ↑ Toronto 1976 Paralympic Games Table Tennis Men's Singles 1C at: paralympic.org
  8. ↑ Toronto 1976 Paralympic Games Athletics Men's Discus 1C at: paralympic.org
  9. ↑ Toronto 1976 Paralympic Games Swimming Men's 25 m Breaststroke 1C at: paralympic.org
  10. ↑ Toronto 1976 Paralympic Games Swimming Men's 25 m Freestyle 1C on: paralympic.org
  11. ^ Arnhem 1980 Paralympic Games Table Tennis Men's Singles 1C on: paralympic.org
  12. ^ Arnhem 1980 Paralympic Games Table Tennis Men's Teams 2 on: paralympic.org
  13. ↑ Arnhem 1980 Paralympic Games Swimming Men's 25 m Freestyle 1C on: paralympic.org
  14. ↑ Arnhem 1980 Paralympic Games Swimming Men's 3x25 m Freestyle Relay 1A-1C on: paralympic.org
  15. ^ New York / Stoke Mandeville 1984 Paralympic Games Table Tennis Men's Singles 1C on: paralympic.org
  16. ↑ New York / Stoke Mandeville 1984 Paralympic Games Table Tennis Men's Teams 3 on: paralympic.org
  17. ^ Seoul 1988 Paralympic Games Table Tennis Men's Singles 1C on: paralympic.org
  18. ^ Seoul 1988 Paralympic Games Table Tennis Men's Teams 1C at: paralympic.org
personal data
SURNAME Emmel, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main