Niels Stein
Niels Stein 
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| Full name | Niels Stein | |||||||||||||||
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 Germany
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| birthday | August 13, 1991 | |||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Heidelberg , Germany | |||||||||||||||
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| discipline | sprint | |||||||||||||||
| society | TV Wattenscheid 01 | |||||||||||||||
| status | active | |||||||||||||||
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| last change: September 10, 2012 | ||||||||||||||||
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Niels Stein (born August 13, 1991 in Heidelberg ) is a German athlete . In his starting class (T35, Tetraspastic) he is the fastest sprinter in Germany in the 100 and 200 meter races.
He suffers from infantile cerebral palsy .
His career began in 2005 at the Bochum association TV Wattenscheid 01 , where in 2008 Dr. Ralf Otto (at the time coach of the German national athletics team, until today Vice President of the Disabled Sports Association Berlin) discovered him and brought him to Berlin after the Paralympics from Witten. Before that, Niels Stein achieved 7th place over 100 meters (T35) at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing . He continued his sporting career at the Paralympic Sports Club Berlin and at the same time completed a voluntary social year at the Disabled Sports Association Berlin in the German Disabled Sports Association in 2009/2010 .
In 2011, Stein won the bronze medal in the 100-meter run of the T35 class in Christchurch , New Zealand at the World Athletics Championships for the disabled . He reached fourth place over 200 meters.
From 2011 to 2015 he was a student in a class at the bbw Bildungswerk der Wirtschaft in Berlin and Brandenburg in Berlin-Karlshorst , where top athletes can graduate in a special program. His trainer in Berlin was Bernd Scheermesser. In 2012 he won the gold medal at the Junior World Championships in Olomouc , Czech Republic over 100 meters (U23) and 200 meters (U23) and then took part in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London . Over 100 meters (T35) and 200 meters (T35) he achieved 6th and 7th place respectively with a new personal best and a German record in the final. In 2016 he fell ill and interrupted his training and sporting activity. In 2017 he moved to Bochum-Wattenscheid to resume training at the TV Wattenscheid 01 Olympic base.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.tv-wattenscheid-01.de/news/behindertensportabteilung-ueberzeugt-leverkusen
- ↑ http://www.tv-wattenscheid-01.de/news/behindertensportabteilung-ueberzeugt-leverkusen
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| SURNAME | Stein, Niels |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1991 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |