Thomas Ulbricht

Thomas Ulbricht
Ulbricht at the IPC World Championships 2013
nation	Germany
birthday	10th July 1985 (age 35)
place of birth	Salzwedel ,  GDR
size	182 cm
Weight	79 kg
job	clerk
Career
discipline	sprint
society	PSC Berlin
Trainer	Ralf Otto, first trainer: Heike Dissing
status	active
Medal table
Paralympics 0 × 1 × 1 × IPC world championships 1 × 1 × 2 × IPC European Championships 1 × 1 × 0 × IBSA European Championships 1 × 0 × 1 × Int. German championships 8 × 3 × 5 × Int. German Indoor championships 7 × 5 × 0 ×
Paralympic Games silver 2008 Beijing Pentathlon bronze 2016 Rio de Janeiro 100 m IPC world championships gold 2006 Assen Pentathlon bronze 2006 Assen 4 × 100 m bronze 2011 Christchurch Pentathlon silver 2013 Lyon 400 m IBSA European Championships gold 2009 Rhodes Pentathlon bronze 2009 Rhodes Long jump IPC European Championships gold 2014 Stadskanaal 400 m silver 2016 Grosseto 200 m Int. German championships silver 2004 Wilhelmshaven 100 m bronze 2004 Wilhelmshaven Long jump gold 2005 Berlin 200 m and javelin throw bronze 2005 Berlin 100 m gold 2006 Leverkusen 4 × 100 m and long jump bronze 2004 Leverkusen Javelin throw gold 2007 singing 4 × 100 m silver 2007 singing Long jump bronze 2010 Bottrop 100 m Int. German indoor championships silver 2006 Halle / Saale 60 m, 200 m, javelin throw gold 2007 Leverkusen 60 m, 200 m, 4 × 200 m, wide gold 2010 Halle / Saale Long jump gold 2012 Leverkusen 4 × 200 m silver 2012 Leverkusen 60 m and 200 m gold 2013 Berlin 400 m
last change: September 15, 2016

Thomas Ulbricht (born July 10, 1985 in Salzwedel , GDR , Magdeburg district ) is a German athlete in the T12 starting class who specializes in short and long sprints . He also competed in the javelin , long jump , pentathlon and the 4 x 100 meter relay .

career path

At the age of eleven Ulbricht had to switch to a school for the blind and visually impaired in Tangerhütte . After he was able to work on his sporting talent in 2003, he began an apprenticeship as a wholesale and foreign trade clerk in cooperation with the Olympic base in Berlin after an aptitude test at the bbw Academy in Berlin . Since 2007 Ulbricht has been working as a clerk at the Federal Agency for Digital Radio for Authorities and Organizations with Security Tasks , a legally competent public-law institution in the division of the Federal Ministry of the Interior .

Athletic career

At the age of eleven, Ulbricht first began swimming, then beating, and finally got into athletics.

In his first major success in 2003, Ulbricht won 3 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medals at the International German Championships (IDM) in Berlin, whereupon he was invited by the national trainer to the Kienbaum National Training Center for a viewing course and then brought to Berlin on his initiative . Since then, Ulbricht has been consistently at the forefront nationally and internationally.

Thomas Ulbricht is at PSC Berlin . He competes in the starting class T12 (athlete with severe visual impairment, macular degeneration ).

At the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio, he won a bronze medal in the 100-meter run and, like all medal winners, was awarded the silver laurel leaf on November 1, 2016 .

Personal best

As of September 7, 2016

• 100 m: 11.14 s
• 200 m: 22.54 s
• 400 m: 50.27 s
• Long jump: 6.88 m
• Pentathlon: 3,296 points

successes

national

• 2003: German Youth Champion (100 m, 200 m, long jump, javelin throw)
• 2004: International German Vice-Champion (100 m)
• 2004: 3rd place International German Championships (long jump)
• 2005: International German Champion (200 m and javelin throw)
• 2005: 3rd place international German championships (100 m)
• 2006: International German Vice Indoor Champion (60 m, 200 m and javelin throw)
• 2006: International German Champion (4 × 100 m and long jump)
• 2006: 3rd place International German Championships (javelin throw)
• 2007: International German indoor champion (60 m, 200 m, 4 × 200 m and long jump)
• 2007: International German Champion (4 × 100 m)
• 2007: International German Vice-Champion (long jump)
• 2010: International German Indoor Champion (long jump)
• 2010: 3rd place International German Championships (100 m)
• 2012: International German Indoor Champion (4 × 200 m)
• 2012: International German Vice Indoor Champion (60 m and 200 m)
• 2013: International German indoor champion (400 m)

international

• 2003: IPC European Champion Junior Class (long jump)
• 2003: 4th place IPC European Championships junior class (100 m)
• 2004: 5th place Paralympic Games (400 m)
• 2005: 4th place IPC European Championships (pentathlon)
• 2006: IPC World Champion (pentathlon)
• 2006: 3rd place IPC World Championships (4 × 100 m)
• 2007: Vice World Champion IBSA World Championships and Games (long jump)
• 2007: 3rd place IBSA World Championships and Games (pentathlon)
• 2007: 4th place IBSA World Championships and Games (javelin throw)
• 2008: 2nd place Paralympic Games (pentathlon)
• 2008: 5th place Paralympic Games (4 × 100 m)
• 2008: 9th place Paralympic Games (javelin throw)
• 2008: 10th place Paralympic Games (long jump)
• 2009: European Champion IBSA Open European Athletics Championships (pentathlon)
• 2009: 3rd place IBSA Open European Athletics Championships (long jump)
• 2009: 6th place IBSA Open European Athletics Championships (javelin throw)
• 2011: 3rd place IPC World Championships (pentathlon)
• 2011: 8th place IPC World Championships (long jump)
• 2012: 6th place Paralympic Games (100 m)
• 2013: IPC Vice World Champion (400 m)
• 2014: IPC European Champion (400 m)
• 2014: 4th place IPC European Championships (100 m)
• 2015: 4th place IPC World Championships (200 m)
• 2016: IPC Vice European Champion (200 m)
• 2016: 3rd place Paralympic Games (100 m)

Web links

Commons : Thomas Ulbricht  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• official homepage
• Athlete portrait on deutsche-paralympische-mannschaft.de
• Athlete portrait on sportschau.de
• Athlete portrait on paralympic.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Mein Sport und ich , on: thomasulbricht.de, accessed October 10, 2016
2. ↑ ^{a b} Thomas Ulbricht World Champion. European champion. Olympian. Pentathlon & Sprinter , on: webdesign-netzwerk.com, October 2007, accessed September 22, 2016
3. ↑ Thomas Ulbricht , on: deutsche-paralympische-mannschaft.de, accessed September 16, 2016
4. ↑ Press release from the Office of the Federal President of November 1, 2016: Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf. Retrieved March 31, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Personal successes , on: thomasulbricht.de, accessed September 22, 2016