Valentin Baus

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Valentin Baus Table tennis player
Valentin Baus
Valentin Baus (2017)
Nation: GermanyGermany Germany
Date of birth: December 14, 1995
Place of birth: Bochum
Playing hand: right
Current world rankings : 2 Template: Infobox table tennis player / maintenance / local value
Best world ranking : 2
Last update of the infobox: December 1st, 2017

Valentin Baus (born December 14, 1995 in Bochum ) is a German table tennis player in the Paralympic starting class WK5. He "is one of the most talented table tennis players with a handicap in Germany".

Athletic career

Valentin Baus started playing table tennis at the age of seven. Due to the inherited glass bone disease , he has been in a wheelchair since 2008 and continues to do his sport successfully. First he played for BSG Duisburg-Buchholz in the wheelchair table tennis Bundesliga, and since July 2016 for Borussia Düsseldorf . He regularly does his training in his hometown club TTG Weitmar in Bochum, where he also competes against athletes without wheelchairs and without disabilities (“pedestrians”).

In 2013 Baus finished third in both the individual and team championships. In 2014 he became world champion in Beijing ; while he beat the Norwegian world number one and Paralympics winner Tommy Urhaug in the semifinals . In 2015 he won two medals at the European Championships, gold in the team and silver in the individual.

At the Paralympics in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro Valentin building won the silver medal in singles. For winning the silver medal in Rio in 2016, he received the silver bay leaf.

At the beginning of December 2017 Baus took second place in the international ranking of the International Table Tennis Federation . In 2018 Baus and his team from Borussia Düsseldorf consisting of Thomas Schmidinger and Sandra Mikolaschek became German champions in wheelchair table tennis for the second time in a row. In 2018 he was nominated for the World Cup in Celje , Slovenia in October .

In 2019, Valentin Baus became European champion in the individual for the first time in Helsingborg and thus qualified for the Paralympics 2020 in Tokyo .

family

Valentin Baus' father, Harry Baus, also suffers from glass bone disease. He leads the advice for disabled and chronically ill students at the Ruhr University Bochum . Valentin's brother Merlin played football for FC Schalke 04 and became German A youth champions in 2012 with his team , after which he received a football scholarship in the USA .

Honors

In 2014 Valentin Baus was named “Youth Athlete of the Year” by Bochum.

successes

2012

  • German champion - singles

2013

  • 3rd place European Championship - individual, team
  • German champion - singles

2014

  • 1st place World Championship - Individual

2015

  • 1st place European Championship - team
  • 2nd place European Championship - individual

2016

2017

  • 2nd place team world championship
  • German champions - team

2018

  • German champion - individual, team, mixed

2019

  • 1st place European Championship - individual
  • 3rd place European Championship - doubles (with Jan Gürtler )
  • German champion - singles, doubles (with Thomas Schmidberger )
2020

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rainer Kalb: Valentin Baus - world champion at the table tennis table. In: dbs-npc.de. July 24, 2015, accessed December 1, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Valentin Baus moves to Borussia Düsseldorf. In: rp-online.de. June 24, 2016, accessed December 1, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Felix Kannengießer: Silver is the greatest happiness for Valentin Baus. In: waz.de. September 28, 2016, accessed December 1, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Press release of the Federal President's Office of November 1, 2016: ... Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf: On November 1, 2016, Federal President Gauck will award ... the German medal winners of the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games with the Silver Laurel Leaf ...
  5. ↑ ITTF Para Table Tennis Ranking Lists - Men class 5 as of 2017-11-01. In: ipttc.org. Retrieved December 1, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Borussia manages the title hat trick. In: wz.de. March 27, 2018, accessed March 28, 2018 .
  7. ^ Tino Hermanns: Para table tennis world championship in Celje: five Borussia players go to the world championship. In: rp-online.de. August 24, 2018. Retrieved August 25, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Para-EM: Twice gold, twice silver and three times bronze in singles. In: tischtennis.de. November 8, 1925, accessed September 19, 2019 .
  9. ^ A b c Felix Kannengießer: European Champion Valentin Baus is looking forward to Tokyo 2020. In: waz.de. September 24, 2019, accessed September 25, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Christoph Winkel: Ex-Schalke Merlin Baus has a football scholarship in the USA. In: derwesten.de. November 14, 2016, accessed December 1, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Felix Kannengießer: Baus receives the premiere trophy. In: derwesten.de. March 19, 2015, accessed December 1, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Baus, Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German para table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum