Sandra Hess (athlete)

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Sandra Hess (born November 2, 1976 in Leipzig ) is a former German karateka and traceuse .

Sandra Hess began at the age of three years with the gymnastics . In her childhood and youth she attended a youth sports school in the GDR and trained in gymnastics and ballet . After the reunification she switched to karate and later also to kickboxing . There she was a member of the German national team for several years , and in 2001 she even became world champion in freestyle karate.

In 2005 Hess got to know David Belle and the sport of parkour at a competition in Paris ; by summer 2005, she joined as president of the German branch of Parkour Worldwide Association at (PAWA), with the aim of jointly with her brother Marcus Hess with workshops , the creation of associations and the training of trainers this sport in Germany popularity to help . In 2007, Sandra Hess organized around 1,500 tractors in Germany and 8,000 in Europe. In the early years, the activities for PAWA represented full-time employment for Hess. The aim was to create contact points with the PAWA “ seal of approval ” all over Germany . Hess acted as an intermediary between the media, industry and the tractors and organized numerous well-attended events .

After Hess already several years in Vogtland Muldenhammer with ceramic design was employed, she returned in the spring of 2017 returned to Leipzig and opened in Naundörfchen a Keramikmalwerkstatt.

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  1. ↑ Felix Haas: Roll backwards for locomotion . In: Stern . January 5, 2010.
  2. ↑ Alex Westhoff: The whole city is my obstacle . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 26, 2008.
  3. ↑ Sandra Winkler: "Parkour": The wild way through the city . In: The world . November 24, 2006.
  4. ↑ Petra Lambeck: Le Parkour: The world as a playground . In: Deutsche Welle . August 8, 2007.
  5. ↑ Wolf von Dewitz: The sport of parkour as the art of locomotion . In: Rhein-Zeitung . August 30, 2007.
  6. ↑ Over all jump over it: sport Parkour . In: Nürtinger Zeitung . September 5, 2009.
  7. ^ Anne Haeming: On the jump . In: the daily newspaper . November 14, 2006.
  8. ↑ Katrin Bauer: Youth cultural scenes as trend phenomena . Waxmann Verlag , Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-8309-2337-4 . ( limited preview )
  9. ↑ Ceramic painting studio Favoritwerk opens on April 16 in Leipzig . In: Leipzigpost. April 14, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Hess, Sandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German karateka and traceur
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd November 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig