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Michael Wahl (* 1980 ) is a German blind athlete .

Michael Wahl had only five percent eyesight from birth. When he was 18 years old, his retina peeled off, leaving him with only 1 percent vision.

First, Wahl operated blind football at PSV Cologne . In 2017 he switched to tennis for the blind because football was getting too "rabid" for him. He trains at the Cologne training location of the "Tennis for All" project of the Gold Kraemer Foundation in the Weiden tennis hall . In 2019 he became German champion in Löhne , after having become vice-champion there the year before at the first German blind tennis championships.

Wahl studied German , philosophy and politics at the University of Cologne . He also worked as a waiter in the Unsicht-Bar dark restaurant in Cologne . He has a master's degree in health economics and is an expert on barrier-free construction. Wahl is head of department in the Ministry of Social Affairs, Labor, Health and Demography of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate in Mainz (as of 2019). As such, he is, among other things, head of the Focal Point for the UN Disability Rights Convention in Rhineland-Palatinate, advisor to Aktion Mensch for the “Barrier-free Bundestag election” campaign and a member of the expert advisory board of the Federal Agency for Barrier Freedom.

Michael Wahl lives in Cologne (as of 2019).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dariusch Rimkus: "I imagine the tennis court from the side". In: sueddeutsche.de . June 6, 2019, accessed June 7, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Almut Steinecke: Student job in the dark: blind from here on. In: Spiegel Online . October 25, 2005, accessed June 7, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Who are we? In: eability-comm.de. February 27, 2019, accessed June 7, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Volker Düster: Blind to success: Katharina and Michael want to become German champions in blind tennis. In: rheinische-verbindungenblaetter.de. April 12, 2019, accessed June 7, 2019 .