Marc Schuh
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| Full name | Marc Andre Schuh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | German | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 August 1989 (age 34) Bergisch Gladbach, Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Disability class | T54 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Marc Andre Schuh (born 12 August 1989[1] in Bergisch Gladbach) is a German wheelchair sprinter.
Life
Marc Schuh was born with a spine malformation which keeps him from walking. He finished
Successes
After trying wheelchair basketball and wheelchair tennis, he took part at his first athletics competition the Mobifanten-Cup as part of the competition Heidelberg-Marathon at the age of 10, which he won directly.[6]
2005 he became second at his first junior U18 world championships Stoke Mandeville (United Kingdom) in the 100 m and 200 m. At the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing he reached the semi-final in the 400 m. In the same year he became junior world champion in United States in the 100 m, 200 m und 400 m in the category U20.
In 2009 he won gold at the junior world championship in Nottwil in the 100 m, 200 m, 400 m and 4x100 m relay, this time in the category U23. Additionally since 2009 Marc Schuh owns the German national records in the 100 m, 200 m and 400 m. In November 2009 he took part at the IWAS-World championship in Bangalore and became world champion in the 400 m. Since 2010 he owns the European record in the 400 m with a time of 45,64 s. 2015 he improved this record down to 45,40 s and raced again the second fastest time in history. He is the first and only athlete that could stay under 46 s more than once. In total he stayed three times under 46 s. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London Schuh became fifth on the 100 m and sixth on the 400 m. At the world championships 2013 in Lyon he won silver in the 400 m and bronze in the 100 m. 2014 he started at the IPC-European Championship in Swansea in the 100 m, 200 m, 400 m and 800 m. On all four distances he finished on the podium. His best result is a silver medal in the 400 m.
References
- ^ "Marc Schuh". teamdeutschland-paralympics.de (in German). Retrieved 1 September 2022.
- ^ Simulations of the electrostatic and magnetic field properties and tests of the Penning-ion source at THe-Trap.
- ^ Online-Zugang.
- ^ THe-TRAP-Projekt. In: Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Universität Heidelberg.
- ^ PhD Thesis
- ^ Gernal sport success see his personal website Homepage.
Literature
- Ruppert, Edmund (2009), "Die Paralympics der Behindertensportler: Der Rollstuhlsportler Marc Schuh in Peking", Rheinisch-Bergischer Kalender 2010 (in German), Bergisch Gladbach: Joh. Heider, pp. 232–235, ISSN 0722-7671
External links
Media related to Marc Schuh at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- Marc Schuh at the International Paralympic Committee
- Marc Schuh at Team Deutschland Paralympics (in German)
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