Vanessa Low

Vanessa Low
100 m final (T42) - Paralympics 2012
nation	Germany , Australia
birthday	17th July 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Schwerin ,  German Democratic Republic
job	Media designer / distance learning digital media
Career
discipline	100-meter run ( T42 ) 200-meter run ( T42 ) long jump ( T42 )
Best performance	100 m: 15.17 s (DR) 200 m: 32.39 s (DR) long jump: 4.93 m ( WR )
society	before: TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Trainer	Roderick Green , before: Steffi Nerius
status	active
Medal table
Paralympics 1 × 1 × 0 × IPC world championships 2 × 1 × 3 × IPC European Championships 2 × 2 × 0 × IWAS World Games 1 × 1 × 0 × IWAS World Junior Games 3 × 1 × 2 ×
Paralympic Games gold 2016 Rio de Janeiro Long jump silver 2016 Rio de Janeiro 100 m IPC world championships bronze 2011 Christchurch 100 m bronze 2013 Lyon Long jump bronze 2013 Lyon 100 m gold 2015 Doha Long jump silver 2015 Doha 100 m gold 2019 Dubai Long jump IPC European Championships gold 2014 Swansea Long jump silver 2014 Swansea 100 m gold 2016 Grosseto Long jump silver 2016 Grosseto 100 m IWAS World Games gold 2009 Bangalore Long jump silver 2009 Bangalore 100 m IWAS World Junior Games gold 2010 Olomouc Long jump gold 2010 Olomouc 200 m bronze 2010 Olomouc 100 m gold 2011 Dubai Long jump silver 2011 Dubai 100 m bronze 2011 Dubai 200 m
last change: November 13, 2019

Vanessa Low (born July 17, 1990 in Schwerin ) is a German - Australian athlete specializing in long jump and sprint in class T61 (formerly: T42 ). She is a Paralympic winner, world and European champion and world record holder .

Life path

Low grew up in Ratzeburg in Schleswig-Holstein . On the evening of June 18, 2006, the student lost her legs in an accident on a platform near Ratzeburg. In the crowd, she stumbled or was pushed onto the platform when a train pulled in . The already sports-enthusiastic student prescribed running with thigh prostheses as therapy and wanted and was able to run again in training when she still had to walk on crutches. Low began competitive sports as soon as possible and started her career in German disabled sports at TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen in 2009 . She made near their training areas buried in 2010 and 2013 a training for media designer in sound and vision at the Cologne Broadcasting Center of the Media Group RTL Germany and worked there at this time as editor of . In 2013 Low initially wanted to end her sporting career to work in the profession. However, the opportunity arose to move to the USA and train full-time in Oklahoma City with Paralympian Roderick Green in order to achieve her great athletic goal of medals at the Paralympic Games at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio . Since 2014 she has therefore been studying remotely in the digital media distance learning course at Wilhelm Büchner University . Lied with the Australian athlete Scott Reardon , she moved to Australia after the 2016 Paralympic Games.

Athletic career

At the IWAS World Championships 2009 in Bangalore she became world champion in the long jump, setting a new world record with 3.92 meters and winning the silver medal over 100 meters in 17.80 seconds.

At the 2011 IPC World Championships in Christchurch (New Zealand) she won bronze over the 100 m. Two years later she won again bronze over the 100 m and bronze in the long jump at the IPC World Championships in Lyon (France).

In August 2012, Low took part in the Summer Paralympic Games in London , where she was fourth in the long jump in sixth with 3.93 m and over 100 meters in 16.78 s.

In 2014, at the International German Championships (IDM) in Berlin, she improved the German record over the 100 m to 15.98 s, making her the second woman with a thigh amputee to undercut the 16.00-second mark. She also improved the world record in the long jump several times. In the same year she won silver over the 100 m and gold in the long jump at the IPC European Championships . She placed in front of the reigning long jump world champion Martina Caironi from Italy.

In 2015 she became world champion long jump with the world record distance of 4.79 m.

In 2016, Low won the gold medal in the new world record distance of 4.93 m in the long jump at the Paralympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro . Also in Rio, she ran a new German record in the 100 m finals in 15.17 seconds and thus won the silver medal.

Due to her family move to Australia, Low decided to take on Australian citizenship after the 2016 Games and to start for Australia in the future.

In 2019, Low started for Australia at the World Championships in Dubai and won gold in the long jump with 4.68 m.

Honors

Sporty

On November 1, 2016, she was honored with the silver laurel leaf for her sporting success.

On November 26, 2016 she was named Disabled Athlete of the Year in Cologne .

Politically

On March 18, 2012, Low took part in the election of the Federal President for the SPD North Rhine-Westphalia .

Personal best

discipline	place	Time / space	date	annotation
100 meters	Rio de Janeiro	15.17 s	17th September 2016	German record
200 metres	Dubai	37.04 s	April 16, 2011	German record
Long jump	Rio de Janeiro	4.93 m	September 10, 2016	World record
Long jump (hall)	Leverkusen	4.26 m	January 14, 2012	German indoor record

Web links

• Athlete portrait deutsche-paralympische-mannschaft.de
• Athlete portrait on the club side
• Athlete portrait of the sports show
• Vanessa Low , on: triceps-team.de
• Vanessa Low at: paralympic.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ We for Germany - German Paralympic Team - Rio 2016
2. ↑ ^{a b} "Sport saved my life"
3. ↑ ^{a b} Vanessa Low - The Stand Up Girl ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in 1890.allianz.de (Allianz customer magazine), March 2015 
4. ↑ Paralympics With common strength
5. ↑ You have to be in control . Sport1 from August 29, 2012
6. ↑ Athlete makes her debut at Paralympics: Gold Hope from Leverkusen ( Memento from August 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Vanessa Low - Athletics - Paralympic Athlete | London 2012
8. ↑ Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Paralympics 2016 in Rio: Final 100 meters women T42 ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ Vanessa Low will start for Australia in the future ( memento of the original from January 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ Women's Long Jump T63 Final Results , on: paralympic.org, accessed November 13, 2019 (pdf 168 kB)
12. ↑ Award of the Silver Laurel Leaf by the Federal President, November 1, 2016
13. ↑ Vanessa Low and Niko Kappel awarded FAZ.net, November 26, 2016
14. ^ Federal Assembly: Who elects the Federal President