Waltraud Stollwerck
Waltraud Stollwerck (born June 5, 1960 ) is a German disabled athlete in the fencing discipline .
Career
Waltraud Stollwerck is severely disabled ( paraplegia ) and is bound to a wheelchair . Nevertheless, she wanted to do competitive sports and chose wheelchair fencing as a sport, which she practiced in performance group B with both epee and foil . She started for FC TBB.
Because of her good performance, she was appointed to the German national handicapped fencing team. She took 1st, 3rd and 4th place at the 1998 World Championships and was European champion with the German epee team the following year.
At the 2000 Paralympic Summer Games in Sydney , she and the German women's fencing team won two medals. First of all, the German team in epee fencing came in second with Stollwerck, Silke Schwarz , Esther Weber-Kranz and Cornelia Hillinger and won a silver medal . Then she was successful with the German female fencers in team fencing in the same line-up in foil. They finished third behind Poland and France and won a bronze medal . For winning these two medals, they were awarded the silver laurel leaf by the Federal President .
Stollwerck also competed in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens , but only made it to the quarterfinals.
Individual evidence
- ^ The fencing team in Sydney, Stollwerck, Waltraud. paralympics.de. Retrieved November 15, 2019.
- ^ Paralympics results by Waltraud Stollwerck. Click on each of the other participants in the competitions. paralympic.org. Retrieved November 15, 2019.
- ↑ Sports report of the federal government to the Bundestag - printed matter 14/1719 - page 51 ... since 1992 the medal winners of the Paralympic Games have also been awarded the silver laurel leaf ...
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| SURNAME | Stollwerck, Waltraud |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German disabled athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1960 |