Yvonne Pijahn

Yvonne Pijahn , b. Sehmisch, (born June 3, 1974 in Herzberg / Elster ) is a German disabled athlete. She is multiple German champion and achieved numerous other national and international successes in wheelchair sports . She also took part in the Paralympics in 2000, 2004 and 2008.

Life and athletic career

The athlete, born in Herzberg / Elster, has suffered from paraplegia since birth . In her childhood she attended the school for the handicapped in Hoyerswerda . She gained her first competitive experience at championships in schools for the disabled, where she was able to take first and second places in sprinting in an ordinary wheelchair. She subsequently learned the profession of office communications clerk in Potsdam .

Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall , she became aware of top-class sport through television during her apprenticeship and began to practice athletics on a regular basis, now in a racing wheelchair suitable for competitive sports. After initially joining the ESV Lok Cottbus , she started racing and finally took part in the German championships for the first time in 1993 in St. Augustin . In the same year she moved to the Athletics Club Cottbus (LC Cottbus).

Initially relatively unsuccessful, she began to establish herself as a wheelchair athlete in top national sport from around the mid-1990s with increasingly professional preparation and better competition and training material. She was trained at home by her brother Torsten Sehmisch. From 1996 international competitions followed and soon successes there too. She finally made it into the German national team. After it was not yet taken into account for the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, it finally took part in Sydney (2000), Athens (2004) and Beijing (2008).

At the IPC World Championships in Athletics 2011 in Christchurch, New Zealand, she reached a 7th and a 9th place. The then world number four was ultimately not taken into account for the 2012 Paralympics in London.

In 2002 she found a civilian job at the Bundeswehr Air Base in Holzdorf . In 2013 she married her long-term partner Matthias Pijahn and took her husband's name. Shortly after their wedding, she ended her career in athletics , now under the name Yvonne Pijahn and starting for her new club, the Brandenburg Prevention and Rehabilitation Sports Association (BPRSV) Cottbus. After years of success in wheelchair racing, she has now switched to the handbike , which is part of the cycling sport , where she was able to celebrate her first success at her first European Cup race in Prague .

Successes (selection)

wheelchair

marathon

• Berlin Marathon 2001
• Berlin Marathon 2002
• Hamburg Marathon 2002
• Berlin Marathon 2003
• Hamburg marathon 2003
• 2004 Beppu-Ōita Marathon in Japan
• Hamburg Marathon 2004
• Berlin Marathon 2005
• Hamburg Marathon 2005
• Hamburg Marathon 2006
• Hamburg Marathon 2007
• Berlin Marathon 2009
• Berlin Marathon 2012

half marathon

• World Championship in Lisbon 2008

sprint

• IPC World Championships 1998 : 5th place - 100 m
• Summer Paralympics 2000 in Sydney: - 100 m, - 200 m, 5th place-400 m
• IPC European Championships in Assen 2003: - 100 m, - 400 m, - 200 m, - 1500 m
• Summer Paralympics 2004 in Athens: 4th place - 100 m, 6th place - 200 m
• Summer Paralympics 2008 in Beijing : 7th place - 100 m, 6th place - 200 m
• European Championships 2011: - 100 m.
• IPC European Championships 2012 in Stadskanaal : - 100 m
• IPC World Championships 2011 in Christchurch: 7th place - 100 m, 9th place - 400 m

Recumbent bike (hand bike)

• Para-cycling European Cup Prague 2015: 1st place (performance class H4)

Honors

• Third in the election for "Cottbus Sportswoman of the Year" 2002
• Third in the election for "Cottbus Sportswoman of the Year" 2003

Web links

• Paralympics results from Yvonne Sehmisch
• Internet presence of the BPRSV Cottbus

Footnotes and individual references

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} www.paralympics.de , accessed on February 7, 2016
2. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.lr-online.de/regionen/senftenberg/Mein-Ziel-ist-immer-der-Endlauf;art1054,3630144
3. ↑ ^{a b c} http://www.lr-online.de/regionen/senftenberg/Mein-Ziel-ist-immer-der-Endlauf;art1054,3630144
4. ↑ ^{a b c} "Disabled athlete Yvonne Sehmisch marries her Matthias" in Lausitzer Rundschau, May 10, 2013
5. ^ "Yvonne-Sehmisch-successful-in-Athens" in Lausitzer Rundschau, December 31, 2004
6. ↑ ^{a b} "Golden prelude to the IPC World Championships in Athletics" on the homepage of the German Wheelchair Sports Association, January 24, 2011
7. ↑ ^{a b} "Winter sleep for Yvonne Sehmisch tabu" in Lausitzer Rundschau, January 3, 2011
8. ↑ ^{a b} "DBS athletes with gold and two bronze successes" on the homepage of the German Wheelchair Sports Association, January 31, 2011
9. ↑ “Cottbus starters to London adopted” in Lausitzer Rundschau, July 26, 2012
10. ^ "Yvonne Sehmisch Third in Berlin" in Lausitzer Rundschau, October 4, 2012
11. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Birgit Rudow: “Another great success for Yvonne Sehmisch” in Lausitzer Rundschau, January 21, 2004
12. ↑ Sven Gückel: "Paralympis athlete Yvonne Sehmisch honored" ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2016 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. in Lausitzer Rundschau, September 25, 2008 
13. ^ " Eaten the first prize together" in Lausitzer Rundschau, October 23, 2015
14. ↑ "Yvonne Pijahn is" hungry for more "" in Lausitzer Rundschau, July 22, 2015
15. ↑ Competition results on the homepage of the International Cycling Federation (UCI) , accessed on February 9, 2016
16. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Result lists of the Berlin Marathon , accessed on February 9, 2016
17. ↑ ^{a b} “Yvonne Sehmisch successful in Athens” in Lausitzer Rundschau, December 31, 2004
18. ^ "Yvonne Sehmisch Third in Berlin" in Lausitzer Rundschau, October 4, 2012.
19. ↑ ^{a b c} Results of the Paralympics 2000 on the Paralympics homepage , accessed on February 10, 2016