Sebastian Junk

Sebastian Junk (born November 29, 1983 in Trier ) is a German judoka - disabled athlete . He has participated in the Paralympic Games since 2000 .

Life

Sebastian Junk is severely visually impaired from birth and has an eyesight of less than 10 percent. He attended the school for the visually impaired in Neuwied, later Marburg. He then studied social pedagogy and social work at the University of Mannheim . He completed the course in 2015 with a master’s degree . He is currently working as a social pedagogue in a youth leisure facility run by the Ludwigshafen citizens' initiative and in the sports boarding school at the Heidelberg Olympic Training Center .

At the age of ten he discovered the sport of judo as part of an AG and began to train in the Judo Club Neuwied. Today he competes for the 1st Mannheim JC and is the bearer of the 2nd Dan . At the age of 15 he took part in the European Judo Championship. A year later he took part in the Paralympic Games for the first time. In Sydney 2000 he finished 7th in the individual. Four years later, at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, he won a bronze medal in the light middleweight division (up to 81 kg). In the same year he was awarded 2nd place as state athlete of the year (Rhineland-Palatinate) .

For winning the bronze medal at the 2004 Paralympic Games, he received the silver laurel leaf on March 16, 2005. In 2006 he became the International German Champion. In 2008 he played for the national team for the blind and visually impaired as well as in the Bundesliga. For the Paralympic Summer Games 2008 he was able to qualify again after a long injury break, but only reached a 7th place in the individual (-90 kg). In 2010 he received the Fair Play Cup at the World Championships for the Blind and Visually Impaired Judoka in Turkey, while his club mate Matthias Krieger became world champion. In 2011 he reached the 3rd place in the individual (-73 kg) at the European Championships.

In 2012 he easily qualified for the Paralympic Games in London . During the preparation period, however, he tore a cruciate ligament . Despite the injury, he competed, in consultation with his doctors, but injured his knee again in the first fight against the Turk Halil Ibrahim Onel and was eliminated from the competition.

In 2015 he reached 9th place at the World Cup. For the Paralympic Games in Rio he was able to qualify again. He competes in the weight class up to 81 kg. It is his fifth participation in the Games.

successes

Paralympic Games:

• 2000 : 7th place: individual
• 2004 : 3rd place: individual (up to 81 kg)
• 2008 : 7th place: individual (up to 90 kg)
• 2012 : Participation (up to 73 kg)

World championships

• 2010: Fair Play Cup
• 2015: 9th place: individual

European championships

• 2007: 3rd place: team, 9th place: individual (up to 81 kg)
• 2011: 3rd place: Individual (up to 73 kg)
• 2015: 7th place: individual (up to 73 kg)

State Sportsman of the Year (Rhineland-Palatinate)

• 2004: 2nd place men

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sebastian Junk. Team Rio. Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region, accessed on August 22, 2016 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Team London: Sebastian Junk -90 kg. (No longer available online.) Deutscher Judo-Bund , archived from the original on 23 August 2016 ; accessed on August 21, 2016 . 
3. ↑ national sportsman. Official website of the national athletes' election , accessed on August 22, 2016 . 
4. ^ Greetings from Federal President Horst Köhler on March 16, 2005 on the occasion of the awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games
5. ↑ Club history in fast motion. 1. Mannheimer Judo Club, accessed on August 21, 2016 . 
6. ^ Judo - Paralympics: Bad luck for brave judoka junk. Focus , August 31, 2012, accessed August 21, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Sebastian Junk. German Paralympic Team, accessed on August 22, 2016 .