Wilhelm Brem

Willi Brem
Full name	Wilhelm Brem
nation	Germany
birthday	November 23, 1977
place of birth	Buchloe ,  Germany
job	Physiotherapist
Career
discipline	Cross-country skiing biathlon
society	Ring of the Physically Disabled Freiburg
Trainer	Werner Nauber
Companion runner	Florian Grimm
disability	visually impaired
status	active
Medal table
Winter Paralympics 3 × 2 × 3 × Nordic World Ski Championships for the disabled 2 × 5 × 2 ×
Winter Paralympics gold 2010 Vancouver Biathlon 12.5 km bronze 2006 Turin Biathlon 12.5 km gold 2002 Salt Lake City biathlon bronze 2002 Salt Lake City Cross-country skiing 10 km gold 1998 Nagano biathlon silver 1998 Nagano Cross-country skiing 10 km silver 1998 Nagano Cross-country relay silver 1994 Lillehammer biathlon Nordic World Ski Championships for the disabled bronze 2013 Solleftea Cross-country relay bronze 2013 Solleftea Biathlon 15 km bronze 2011 Finsterau Biathlon 7.5 km silver 2005 Fort Kent Cross-country relay 4 × 5 km bronze 2005 Fort Kent Biathlon 12.5 km bronze 2003 Baiersbronn Biathlon 7.5 km gold 2000 Sion biathlon silver 2000 Sion Cross-country skiing 20 km gold 1996 Sunne biathlon
last change: February 25, 2014

Wilhelm Brem (born November 23, 1977 in Buchloe ) is a German disabled athlete in the field of Nordic skiing .

Life

Brem grew up in Buchloe and attended elementary school in Ketterschwang . At the age of nine he switched to the elementary and secondary school for the blind in Munich. After graduating, he became a physiotherapist and has been working at the Freiburg-Black Forest Olympic Training Center since 2007 .

Career

In 1993 Brem started in the field of Nordic skiing . A year later he won his first medal at the 1994 Winter Paralympics in Lillehammer with his then companion Gerd Keuer in biathlon , and the first gold medal at the 1996 Nordic World Ski Championships for the disabled in Sunne .

From 1996 to 2002 Olaf Gruhn accompanied him . With this he won gold in biathlon and 2 times silver in cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Paralympics in Nagano , as well as gold in biathlon and silver in cross-country skiing at the Nordic World Ski Championships for the disabled in 2000 in Sion and gold in biathlon and bronze in cross-country skiing with Franz Lankes , at the 2002 Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City .

He also won a bronze medal at the Winter Paralympics 2006 in Turin with his companion Ulrich Zipfel , and at the Winter Paralympics 2010 in Vancouver gold in the 12.5 km biathlon together with his companion Florian Grimm , with whom he has been running since 2007. Brem achieved a total of eight medals at the Paralympics from 1994 to 2014, three of which were gold in biathlon.

His start for Germany at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi was his sixth participation. He reached seventh place in the 7.5 km biathlon sprint for the visually impaired and ninth place over 15 km; Florian Grimm was again the accompanying runner. Brem has meanwhile ended his active career; in the Paralympics 2018 he no longer took part.

Awards

• 2010: Silver bay leaf
• 2011: Sportsman of the year from the city of Freiburg

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Brem: Fit for the fifth medal at the Paralympics. Badischer Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, February 18, 2010, accessed on February 25, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by Federal President Prof. Dr. Horst Köhler on April 30, 2010 in Bellevue Palace. (No longer available online.) Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, April 30, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 25, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ↑ Simone Lutz: Gala Night of Sports - a thank you for all athletes. Badischer Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, March 4, 2012, accessed on February 25, 2014 . 

Web links

• Wilhelm Brem on the website of the German Disabled Sports Association
• Official website of Wilhelm Brem