Yvonne Hopf

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Yvonne Hopf (* 1977 or 1978) is a former German disabled athlete .

Career

Yvonne Hopf is a former, visually impaired top swimmer in freestyle , backstroke and also in individual swimming . She swam in the handicapped swimming distances over 50 m and 100 m in the individual as well as in the relay.

Because of her excellent performance, she was appointed to the German national team for handicapped people. In 1992 she won a gold medal in the 200m medley at the Summer Paralympics in Barcelona, ​​as well as two silver and two bronze medals. At the IPC Swimming World Championships in Malta in 1994 , she won the 50 m freestyle and came second three times. As an 18-year-old she took part in the 1996 Paralympic Summer Games in Atlanta , where she won a total of five gold medals and one silver medal in the B3 starting class .

First she won the 50 m freestyle distance. In this discipline she set a world record with 27.38 seconds (in class S13), which was only broken in 2016 by Anna Stetsenko . The victory over 100 m back followed. Then Hopf swam first place in freestyle over the distance of 100 m. After these victories in the individual competitions, she swam the Olympic victory with the 100 m freestyle relay with the line-up of Hopf, Daniela Röhle , Birgit Beeker and Daniela Henke . In the end, she and the German 4 × 100 m layer relay won another gold medal in the same line-up. A sixth gold medal in the 100 m butterfly was revoked in a controversial decision, as it was disqualified after the race due to a mistake on the tack. She won a silver medal over 200 m individual medley.

For their Olympic victories, Yvonne Hopf and her relay mates were awarded the silver laurel leaf by the Federal President .

In 1998, during an eye examination, it was found that Hopf had visual acuity above the permitted ten percent, whereupon she had to end her career as a blind athlete.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gold Lady. In: Sportler des Jahres 1996. S. 66. sportler-des-jahres.de. Retrieved November 5, 2019.
  2. ^ Yvonne Hopf paralympic.org. Retrieved November 5, 2019.
  3. ↑ Ukraine's Stetsenko breaks 20-year-old world record. paralympic.org, September 14, 2016. Retrieved November 5, 2019.
  4. ↑ Germany at the 1996 Paralympics, medals: swimming, women
  5. ↑ Iris Hilberth: Boos echo through the Aquatic Center . In: The daily newspaper: taz . August 21, 1996, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 13 ( taz.de [accessed on November 14, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Sports report of the federal government to the Bundestag - printed matter 14/1710 - page 51 ... since 1992 the medal winners of the Paralympic Games have also been awarded the silver laurel leaf ...
  7. ↑ Athletes feign handicaps in disabled sports. In: Der Spiegel . April 22, 2012. Retrieved November 5, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Hopf, Yvonne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German disabled athlete
DATE OF BIRTH 1977 or 1978