Uwe Mehlmann

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Uwe Mehlmann , born in the 20th century, is a former German disabled athlete.

Career

Uwe Mehlmann comes from Castrop-Rauxel . Because of a visual impairment he, like his brother Olaf Mehlmann , is severely disabled. Because of this severe handicap, he attended the Institute for the Blind in Marburg for vocational training as an IT specialist . There he began to do competitive sports (athletics) with the school's own sports group. Even after his training in Marburg, he continued his sporting exercises so successfully that he became a member of the German national team for handicapped people, where he was used both in running competitions and in the long jump. He became a member of the German Paralympic Team, with which he took part in the Paralympic Summer Games in 1988 and 1992 and in the World Disabled Sports Championships in 1990 and 1994. Uwe Mehlmann, who won a total of 3 medals, started in group B3 over 100 m as well as over 200 m and in the long jump. He was Olympic champion over 200 m, won a silver medal over 100 m and was third in the long jump.

Uwe Mehlmann was already very successful before that: in 1988 he took part in the Paralympic Summer Games in Seoul and won the silver medal in the 100 m. He achieved his next successes at the World Disabled Championships in 1990 in Assen in the Netherlands. Here he won a gold medal both over 100 m and over 200 m. He also participated in the 1994 World Championships with the German disabled sports team and won a gold medal in the 200 m and a bronze medal in the 100 m.

For winning a medal at the Paralympic Games in 1992, he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker on June 23, 1993 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Uwe and Olaf Mehlmann: Conquered the world elite at the Paralymics. In: 24vest.de. Verlag J. Bauer KG, March 12, 2010, accessed on March 13, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Uwe Mehlmann. International Paralympic Committee , accessed March 18, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V. VIBSS: The Federal President and his tasks in the field of sport: on June 23, 19993 Federal President von Weizsäcker awarded disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Paralympic Games with the silver laurel leaf.