Verena Schott

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Verena Schott 2012 Paralympics.jpg

Verena Schott at the Paralympics 2012

Personal information
Surname: Verena Schott
Nation: GermanyGermany Germany
Swimming style (s) : Freestyle / layers
Society: Berlin swim team / Paralympic Sports Club Berlin
Birthday: March 6, 1989
Place of birth: Greifswald
Size: 172
Weight: 57
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Medals

Verena Schott (born March 6, 1989 in Greifswald ) is a German swimmer in disabled sports .

biography

Verena Schott was born in Greifswald in 1989 and moved to Bennewitz with her family at the age of three . In neighboring Wurzen , she started swimming at Wurzener SC when she was eight. In 2002, Schott was hit by a van on a bicycle and seriously injured. Since then she has been incompletely paraplegic and has to rely on a wheelchair .

From then on, Schott continued swimming at the Leipzig Disabled Sports Club. After graduating from high school, she began studying biology at the Humboldt University in Berlin and trained at the Paralympic Sports Club Berlin (PSC Berlin).

Schott celebrated her first significant sporting successes at the 2010 World Championships, where she won the silver medal in the 200 m medley and 100 m chest . As a result, she swam the norm for the 2012 Paralympic Summer Games , at which she was part of the German squad . There she reached the finals over 50 m freestyle , 100 m chest, 200 m medley and 400 m freestyle. On her parade distance, the 200 m individual medley (class SM6), she won the silver medal and only Eleanor Simmonds had to admit defeat with a world record time. In August 2013 she again won silver over the 200 m medley and bronze over 100 m breaststroke at the World Championships in Montreal . In the German Disabled Sports Association , she acts as the active spokesperson and representative of the active national team in the swimming department.

For winning the silver medal at the Paralympics 2012 in London, she received the silver bay leaf on November 7, 2012.

Schott is mother of a son (* 2011).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d "Sport in Berlin" ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , lsb-berlin.de, September 2012, p. 11 (PDF file; 2442 kB), accessed on October 7, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lsb-berlin.net
  2. ↑ a b c d "From Bennewitz to the Olympia-Becken" , Leipziger Volkszeitung, August 29, 2012, accessed on October 7, 2013
  3. ↑ "Two World Cup medals for Verena Schott" ( Memento of the original from November 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , zeh.hu-berlin.de, August 19, 2013, accessed on October 7, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zeh.hu-berlin.de
  4. ↑ Overview of the departmental board, abteilung-schwimmen.de, accessed on October 7, 2013
  5. ↑ Press release of the Federal President's Office on November 7, 2012: ... On November 7, 2012, Federal President Joachim Gauck awarded the German medal winners of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games ... with the silver laurel leaf. ...
personal data
SURNAME Schott, Verena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald