Silke Pan

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Silke Pan (born January 11, 1973 in Bonn ) is a German and Swiss hand bike athlete who lives in Aigle , Switzerland .

biography

Silke Pan grew up in Switzerland, where she has been successful as an athlete in apparatus gymnastics and in tower and trampoline jumping since her youth. After courses at circus schools and with a diploma from the State Ballet School and School for Artistry in Berlin , she performed in circuses, amusement parks, festivals and other events. She worked for the Swiss Circus Nock for eight years . Together with Didier Dvorak, her future husband, she developed new numbers and aerial acrobatics. When she started training for a new program in an amusement park in Italy in 2007, she fell while walking in a trapezoidal figure and suffered serious injuries that resulted in paraplegia. At the Swiss Paraplegic Center in Nottwil , she adjusted to life as a wheelchair user and began cycling in Switzerland. After a second apprenticeship as a decorator, she and her husband founded the Canniballoon Team company in 2009, which designs works of art and furnishings for events.

Silke Pan is married to the artist Didier Dvorak, with whom she previously appeared as the duo Robin Street .

In 2018, Silke Pan also acquired Swiss citizenship.

Cycling

Since the beginning of 2012, Silke Pan has been successfully participating in numerous handbike competitions for the GC Nendorf cycling club , the Sopur team and the Central Switzerland wheelchair club . Your new team is Active Sport Brescia .

At the marathon in Heidelberg in 2013 she set the world fastest time and at the Paracycling World Championship in 2015 in Nottwil she was runner-up in the road race and fourth in the individual time trial . For the UCI World Cup race in Yverdon 2015 she took over the sponsorship and won the road race.

In 2017, 2018 and 2019 she won the Giro d'Italia handbike.

Projects

In 2016, Silke Pan developed a new type of exoskeleton with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne EPFL in Lausanne , with which she took part in the ETH Zurich cybathlon on October 8, 2016 . The Twiice project received a great response in the international press.

Together with the Geneva engineering school HEPIA (Haute école du paysage, d'ingénierie et d'architecture de Genève), Silke Pan designs a handbike made of fiber flax. With the support of the HESAV University of Applied Sciences in Western Switzerland, she planned an additional sporting event at the Race Across America for hand bikers across the USA in 2017.

In 2016 she crossed 13 Swiss Alpine passes on a handbike (18,000 m altitude). This resulted in her autobiographical book “A la conquête de nouveaux sommets”.

In 2017 she received the championship title “Grand Maître Honorifique” as the first disabled athlete to conquer the seven Alpine passes “7 Majeurs” over 2,000 altitude meters on a handbike.

In 2018 she crossed the Pyrenees with 28 passes in 10 days and covered 800 km. This resulted in the documentary "Alla Vita" by Coline Confort.

In 2019, Silke Pan visited and crossed 30 lakes in Switzerland on a course of 980 kilometers as part of the Le Tour des Lacs project .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From the trapeze to the wheelchair Author: Christine Zwygart
  2. ↑ Johan Tachet: Silke Pan. Le sport pour repousser the limits of the handicap. In: Le Nouvelliste , November 17, 2018
  3. ↑ Helene Krähenbühl: Silke Pan veut délivrer un message d'espoir. In: Le Nouvelliste, July 30, 2019.
  4. ^ Silke Pan, GC Nendorf In: Radsportverband Niedersachsen eV
  5. ↑ German team dominates Paracycling World Championships
  6. ^ Para-cycling road UCI World Cup Yverdon-les-Bains
  7. ^ Giro d'Italia: Classifica Finale maglia rossa
  8. ↑ 2017 Race across America , thinksport.org, accessed September 16, 2019.
  9. ↑ L'athlète valaisanne Silke Pan dates son tour des 30 lacs suisses. In: Le Nouvelliste, July 31, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Pan, Silke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hand bike athlete
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn