Max Weber (cyclist)

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Max Weber Road cycling
Max Weber (2016)
Max Weber (2016)
To person
Date of birth August 9, 1964
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Paracycling (street) (H3)
Societies)
TSV Obergünzburg
Most important successes
Paralympics
2016 Silver medal Paralympics.svg - road racing
2008 Silver medal IPC 1994-2004.svg - road racing
1996 Gold medal IPC 1994-2004.svg - 4 × 100 meter relay (racing wheelchair)
Last updated: December 31, 2018

Max Weber (* 9. August 1964 in Obergünzburg ) is a German cyclist who in Para Cycling - road cycling as handbikers is active (H3).

Athletic career

Max Weber, a trained precision mechanic, is paraplegic . In 1996 he competed in the Summer Paralympics for the first time and won gold in the 4 × 100 meter relay in the racing wheelchair . Four years later, at the Summer Paralympics 2000 , he took fifth place over 800 meters and sixth place over 400 meters with the racing wheelchair.

From 2006 Weber regularly competed in street races with the handbike. In 2006 he was two-time vice world champion in road racing and in the individual time trial , and the following year he was world champion in road racing. At the 2008 Summer Paralympics , he won silver in the road race and finished seventh in the time trial. In 2010 he became world champion again, this time with the team.

In 2013 and 2014 Max Weber suffered several accidents, after which he thought about ending his sports career. But fifth place in the road race at the 2015 World Championships motivated him to keep going. In 2016 he started at the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro and won the silver medal in the road race.

successes

1996
2006
  • silver Vice world champion - road races, individual time trials
2007
2008
2010
  • World Champion World Champion - Team Road Race
2011
  • bronze World Championship - Road Race
2016

Web links

  • German Disabled Sports Association: Max Weber. In: German Paralympic Team. Retrieved September 25, 2016 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Max Weber: With goose bumps across the finish line. In: - RehaTreff Online. June 10, 2015, accessed September 25, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German handbiker
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Obergünzburg