Sven Michaelis

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Sven Michaelis (born March 31, 1981 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a German disabled athlete .

Career

He is severely disabled from birth because he suffers from dysmelia , a malformation of three limbs. He is a financier by profession.

Exercise

Despite his disability, he was involved in competitive sports in the BFV Ascota Chemnitz . His discipline was swimming, where he soon performed so well in backstroke and freestyle as well as medley that he was appointed to the German national team. With this team he took part in numerous international competitions. She was there 5 times at European Championships (1997, 1999, 2001 and 2009 in swimming and 2011 in wheelchair rugby ). He also excelled at the World Championships in 1998 and 2006 and at the Paralympics in 2000 , 2004 , 2008 and 2012 .

He won numerous medals at these international sporting competitions:

European Championships:

  • 1997: Gold medal in 4 x 50 m medley, silver medal in 50 m freestyle
  • 1999: Gold medal in the 100 m back, bronze medal in the 200 m medley
  • 2001: Gold medal in the 100 m back, bronze medals in the 100 m freestyle and medley
  • 2009: bronze medals in 100 m freestyle and 100 m back

World Championships:

  • 1998: Gold medal 4 x 50 m medley, bronze medal 4 x 50 m freestyle and 50 m freestyle
  • 2006: bronze medal in the 400 m

Paralympic Summer Games:

  • 2000: Silver medal in the 200 back
  • 2004: bronze medal in the 200 m medley

From 2010 Sven Michaelis changed the sport. From then on he played wheelchair rugby. With the German national team he took part in this sport at the European Championships 2011, in which the German team reached 4th place.

On March 16, 2005, he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf for his athletic achievements .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Disabled Sports Association e. V., We for Germany, article on Sven Michaelis
  2. ↑ We for Germany ...
  3. ^ List of German medalists
  4. ↑ Press release from the Office of the Federal President: Greetings from Federal President Horst Köhler on the occasion of the award of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the German medal winners of the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games
personal data
SURNAME Michaelis, Sven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German disabled athlete (swimming)
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Karl Marx City