Valeska garlic

Valeska Garlic Parabadminton
Personal information
Type of disability (class):	WH1
Nationality:	Germany
Birthday:	September 21, 1990
Place of birth:	Bonn
Society:	SC Union 08 Ludinghausen

Valeska Knoblauch (born on September 21, 1990 in Bonn ) is a German badminton player at SC Union 08 Lüdinghausen . She is paraplegic and starts in parabadminton in the starting class WH1, both in singles, doubles and mixed.

Life

Garlic suffered paraplegia from a fall from a window at the age of 14 . Two years later, she tried on the Messes REHACARE first Parabadminton and stayed with the sport. At first she lived in Olpe and trained at RBG Dortmund , but has since moved to SC Union 08 Lüdinghausen . She studies psychology in Cologne and trains at the German Sport University Cologne .

In 2017, Knoblauch started singles at the Badminton World Cup for the disabled in Ulsan, South Korea, and reached the quarter-finals. At the European Badminton Championships for the disabled in Rodez , she won gold in the singles against the Swiss Karin Suter-Erath in 2018 . In doubles with Elke Rongen and in mixed with Young-Chin Mi , she reached third place. In August 2019, Knoblauch and her partner Young-Chin Mi won the bronze medal in mixed at the World Championships in Basel . Knoblauch is aiming to take part in the 2020 Summer Paralympics , which will feature badminton competitions for the first time.

Web links

• Valeska Knoblauch , interview on the YouTube channel BadmintonWorld.tv (2014, English, 4:20)
• Valeska Knoblauch - profile , interview on the YouTube channel BadmintonWorld.tv (2019, English, 6:48)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Valeska garlic. In: teamdeutschland-paralympics.de. Retrieved February 8, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Stefanie Sandmeier: Valeska Knoblauch: "The hunted on paper". In: badminton.de. August 19, 2019, accessed February 8, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Volkher Pullmann: Paraplegic Olperin trains for the Paralympics. In: Westfalenpost . October 25, 2017, accessed February 8, 2020 . 
4. ^ Wilhelm Seibert: Two bronze medals at the Para Badminton World Cup. In: teamdeutschland-paralympics.de. November 28, 2017, accessed February 8, 2020 . 
5. ^ Para Badminton EM: Five EM titles and ten other medals. In: teamdeutschland-paralympics.de. November 5, 2018, accessed February 8, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Silver and bronze at the Tokyo dress rehearsal. In: teamdeutschland-paralympics.de. August 26, 2019, accessed February 8, 2020 .