Pauline Schäfer

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Pauline Schäfer Apparatus gymnastics
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Pauline Schäfer on the balance beam at the German Championships 2017

Personal information
Nationality: GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Apparatus gymnastics
Special device / s: Poutre.svg Balance beam
Society: TV Pflugscheid-Hixberg / KTV Chemnitz
Trainer: Kay-Uwe Temme
Birthday: 4th January 1997 (age 23)
Place of birth: Dudweiler
Medals
Logo of FIG World championships
bronze 2015 Glasgow Balance beam
gold 2017 Montreal Balance beam

Pauline Schäfer (born January 4, 1997 in Saarbrücken-Dudweiler ) is a German gymnast and sports soldier. Her special device is the balance beam , on which she won the gold medal at the 2017 World Championships .

Life

Schäfer started gymnastics at the age of five, at that time she was doing gymnastics for TV Pflugscheid-Hixberg. In 2012 she moved from Bierbach in Saarland to the boarding school of the Chemnitz Sports High School .

Schäfer belongs to the KTV Chemnitz and was trained by Gabriele ("Gabi") Frehse at the training center there until mid-2018. She created her own gymnastics element. The "Shepherd" is a sideways somersault with half a turn on the balance beam, which she showed internationally for the first time at the 2014 World Cup in Nanning and which has since been named in the international rules, the Code de Pointage .

In 2018, Schäfer changed her trainer and is now being trained by national trainer Ulla Koch.

Schäfer's younger sister Helene is also a gymnast, and her two older brothers also did gymnastics. Her mother Liane Betz was vice European champion in the police pentathlon. Her partner Andreas Bretschneider is also an artistic gymnast and part of the German national team.

successes

She took part in the World Championships in 2013 and 2014. In 2014 and 2015 she became German champion on vault and balance beam.

At the European Championships in 2014 , she narrowly missed a medal with the team and finished fourth.

At the European Championships in 2015 , she was seventh on the balance beam. In the same year she won the bronze medal on the beam at the World Championships in Glasgow. She is the first German medalist to use this device in 34 years.

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio der Janiero , she and the team reached the team finals and they finished sixth there. This means that she is part of the first German women's gymnastics team since reunification to reach an Olympic team finals. She missed the bar final of the best eight gymnasts in Rio with 15th place in the qualification, and on the floor it was not enough for the final despite a very good performance and 12th place.

At the 2017 World Championships in Montreal , she won the gold medal on the balance beam and is only the third German gymnast, after Erika Zuchold in 1970 and Maxi Gnauck in 1981, to achieve this success. In qualifying for the final she had to admit defeat with third place behind her teammate Tabea Alt , who won the qualification. In the final, she had to be the first to use the machine and could not be ousted from the leadership position until the end. Tabea Alt won bronze in the end.

In the election for Sportswoman of the Year 2017 , the then 20-year-old took second place in December.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Pauline Schäfer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pauline Schäfer. Accessed January 30, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Interview: Pauline Schäfer. In: pulstreiber.de. July 3, 2018, accessed April 9, 2020 .
  3. ^ Sarah Walter: With the shepherd somersault to Rio ( Memento from October 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Peter Schmidt: Pauline and her "Shepherd" ( Memento from November 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
  5. ^ Süddeutsche de GmbH, Munich Germany: Pauline creates the "Schäfer-Salto" - sports news. Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 6, 2014, accessed on August 13, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Pauline Schäfer and trainer Frehse suspend cooperation. Accessed January 30, 2019 .
  7. ^ Profile of Helene Schäfer. In: dtb-online.de . Retrieved October 12, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Sandra Schmidt: Interview with Pauline Schäfer: "I am trapped". In: taz.de . April 22, 2017. Retrieved October 12, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Stern TV of October 11, 2017
  10. ^ RP ONLINE: Artistic gymnastics: This is how world champion Pauline Schäfer ticks. Accessed January 30, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Pauline Schäfer. In: sporthilfe.de . Retrieved October 9, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Historic bronze medal for Pauline Schäfer. In: sueddeutsche.de . November 1, 2015, accessed November 1, 2015 .
  13. ↑ NDR: Gymnasts write Olympic history. Accessed January 30, 2019 .
  14. ↑ News | International gymnastics - German gymnastics league. Accessed January 30, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Volker Kreisl: Gold for the evening gymnast . In: sueddeutsche.de. October 9, 2017. Retrieved October 9, 2017 .
  16. ↑ News | International gymnastics - German gymnastics league. Accessed January 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Shepherd, Pauline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Dudweiler , Germany