Maria Seifert

Maria Seifert
nation	Germany
birthday	15th May 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	Erfurt , Germany
size	164 cm
Weight	52 kg
job	Nanny
Career
discipline	sprint
society	HSC Erfurt
Trainer	Marion Peters
status	active
Medal table
Paralympics 0 × 0 × 3 × IPC world championships 0 × 2 × 0 × IWAS Under 23 World Games 0 × 0 × 0 × IPC European Championships 2 × 1 × 2 ×
Paralympic Games bronze 2008 Beijing 100 m and 200 m bronze 2012 London 200 m IPC world championships silver 2011 Christchurch 100 m silver 2013 Lyon 100 m IPC European Championships gold 2012 Stadskanaal 100 m and 200 m silver 2012 Stadskanaal 4 × 100 m bronze 2014 Stadskanaal 100 m and 4 × 100 m
last change: September 15, 2016

Maria Seifert (born May 15, 1991 in Erfurt , Thuringia ) is a German athlete in the T37 starting class who specializes in short sprints . It also runs in the season .

career path

Maria Seifert is a nanny in a kindergarten in Erfurt.

Athletic career

Seifert came to sport through her teacher in the physically challenged school in Erfurt, because she could run “pretty fast”.

At the age of 17, she won bronze at the Paralympics in Beijing in the 100 and 200 meters. Many championship and runner-up titles not only at World and European Championships and places in the top eight followed, including bronze over 200 meters at the Paralympics in London .

In 2016 Seifert competed in her third Paralympics and came in 4th as a member of the 4 x 100 meter relay .

Maria Seifert is at HSC Erfurt . She competes in the starting class T37 (athlete with hemiparesis - which she has on the right).

Honors

In 2008 and 2012 she was awarded the “Silver Laurel Leaf” by the Federal President .

At the Thuringian Sports Ball of the Landessportbund Thuringia and the Thuringian Sporthilfe Foundation , Maria Seifert was named “Thuringian Disabled Athlete of the Year 2012”.

Personal best

As of September 7, 2016

• 100 m: 14.08 s (German record)
• 4 × 100 m: 57.51 s

successes

international

• 2008: 3rd place Paralympic Games (100 m and 200 m)
• 2011: IPC Vice World Champion (100 m)
• 2011: 4th place IPC World Championships (4 × 100 m)
• 2011: 7th place IPC World Championships (200 m)
• 2012: IPC European Champion (100 m and 200 m)
• 2012: IPC Vice European Champion (4 × 100 m)
• 2012: 8th place IPC European Championships (400 m)
• 2012: 3rd place Paralympic Games (200 m)
• 2012: 4th place Paralympic Games (100 m)
• 2013: IPC Vice World Champion (100 m)
• 2013: 6th place IPC World Championships (200 m)
• 2014: 3rd place IPC European Championships (100 m and 4 × 100 m)
• 2015: 6th place IPC World Championships (100 m)
• 2016: 4th place Paralympic Games (4 × 100 m)
• 2016: 6th place Paralympic Games (100 m)

Web links

• Athlete portrait on deutsche-paralympische-mannschaft.de
• Athlete portrait on sportschau.de
• Athlete portrait on paralympic.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ were called IWAS World Junior Games until 2015
2. ^ Maria Seifert , on: deutsche-paralympische-mannschaft.de, accessed September 16, 2016
3. ↑ Dirk Pille: Thuringian athletes private: Paralympics ace Maria Seifert chases cats and likes to hike in Tyrol , on: thueringer-allgemeine.de, from April 30, 2014, accessed September 18, 2016
4. ↑ Athletics, 4 × 100 m relay, T35 / T38 - standing, women , on: sportschau.de, accessed September 15, 2016
5. ↑ Federal President honors Olympic participants with the award of the Silver Laurel Leaf ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on: saar-report.de/, from November 7, 2012, accessed September 18, 2016 
6. ↑ Ball des Thüringer Sports , on: thueringersporthilfe.de, accessed September 18, 2016