Ulrike Nasse-Meyfarth is a German former high jumper. She won the Olympic title twice, in 1972 and 1984. She is the youngest Olympic champion ever in women's high jump, and at the time of her 1984 triumph, she also was the oldest ever.
Linda Stahl is a retired German track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw.
Heinrich Popow is a German sprinter. At the Paralympics 2012 in London he won Gold in 100 metres sprint. During his career he has been the World and European Champion in 100 metres sprint and World Champion in the long jump. In total, he won 27 medals at the Paralympic Games, World and European Championships.
April Holmes is a Paralympic athlete from the USA competing mainly in category T44 sprint events.
Jörg Frischmann is a Paralympic athlete from Germany. He is classified F43, and competes mainly in shot put and javelin events.
Rheed McCracken is an Australian Paralympic athletics competitor. He named the 2012 Junior Athlete of the Year as part of the Australian Paralympian of the Year Awards. He represented Australia at the 2012 London Paralympics, 2016 Rio Paralympics and 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, where he won three silver and two bronze medals. He will be competing at the 2024 Paris Paralympics, his fourth Games.
Markus Rehm is a German Paralympic athlete, and in the long jump has won four Paralympic, six world and five European titles. He began in sports at age 20 and became a long jump F44 world champion in 2011. His club is TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen and he is a medical specialist. Rehm is nicknamed "The Blade Jumper", as he is a long jumper with a blade-type leg prosthesis. Rehm's right leg was amputated below the knee after a wakeboarding accident. He uses a carbon-fibre bladed prosthesis, from which he jumps off.
Johanna Benson is a Paralympian athlete from Walvis Bay, Namibia. She competes in T37 long jump and sprint events and at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London she won the women's 200 metres race in her classification. Her 200 metres success in London made her the first Paralympic gold medalist in Namibia's history.
Birgit Kober is a German Paralympic athlete. She initially competed in F34 seated throwing events, and from 2011 to 2013 she became the reigning champion at European, World and Paralympic level in both shot put and javelin in her class. At the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in London, she broke the world record in both her events. Following changes to the IPC rules for seated throws in 2014, she chose to compete in a standing position as an F36 athlete. She won the F36 shot put at the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games with a Paralympic record throw. As of April 2017 she is World Record holder in the Women's F36 shot put, a distance of 11.52 m set in July 2016.
Mateusz Przybylko is a German high jumper of Polish descent. He won the gold medal at the 2018 European Championships.
Katrin Mueller-Rottgardt is a German para-track and field athlete. She is a T12/F12 classification athlete meaning that she has limited vision and she runs with the aid of a sighted guide. She competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the 100 metres, 200 metres and long jump. She won a bronze medal in the 100 metres with a personal best of 11.99 seconds. She runs with Noel Philippe Fiener.
Irmgard Bensusan is a South African born Paralympic sprinter who now competes for Germany, mainly in T44 classification events. Bensusan competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics where she won three silver medals in the 100, 200 and 400 metre sprints.
Felix Streng is a German Paralympic track and field athlete. A single leg amputee, Streng competes in both sprint and long jump events, competing in the T44 classification. He has won medals at both European and World Championship level and was part of the German Athletics at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay team that won gold at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio.
Maria Tietze is a German Paralympic athlete and former association football player. She was a very keen footballer before she was involved in a motorcycle accident which resulted in her left leg amputated below the knee.
Léon Gabrial Schäfer is a German Paralympic athlete who competes in mainly sprinting and long jump events at international level events and is a current world record holder in the men's long jump T63.
Juliane Wolf is a German para table tennis player who competes in international level events. She is a double World silver medalist and seven time European medalist. She competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics where she lost in the bronze medal match to Josephine Medina.
Fleur Jong is a Dutch Paralympic athlete. She won the gold medal in the women's long jump T64 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan and the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France.. As of September 2023, her world record in this event is 6.74 metres.
Sophie Weißenberg is a German track and field athlete who competes in international elite competitions. She is a World U20 silver medalist in long jump and a European U23 silver medalist in heptathlon.
Janne Sophie Engeleiter was born on 18 August 1995, in Rathenow, Germany. She is a German Paralympic athlete, who competes in sprinting and long jump events at international elite events. She is also a multiple European medalist in 100 metres.
Hendrik Gruber is a German former pole vaulter. He was the bronze medalist at the 2009 University Games, and finished 2nd at the 2017 European Athletics Team Championships in the pole vault.
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