Dubai to host 2019 World Para Athletics Championships Bayer athletes competing in national teams
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Dubai to host 2019 World Para Athletics Championships Bayer athletes competing in national teams Bayer – one of Germany’s leading sports sponsors Bayer is one of Germany’s leading sports sponsors, an engagement with a long tradition. For more than a century the company has been endorsing its employees’ desire for healthy leisure activities and supporting a variety of sports in the vicinity of its production sites – at both professional and grassroots level. Although this support is provided in equal measure to top athletes, promising talents, and everyday sportsmen and -women, Bayer is particularly committed to disabled sports and responsibly supporting young talents: Nowadays, Bayer lends its name to 23 sports clubs with some 45,000 members and 50 different sports. In the professional sporting field, Bayer’s athletes have been extremely successful – as indicated by, for example, 68 Olympic and 82 Paralympic medals. Bayer has traditionally been a strong supporter of disabled sports and has been sponsoring the German National Paralympic Committee since 2000. Besides this sponsorship, Bayer’s engagement in disabled sports includes support for members of TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen’s Disabled Sports Section at all levels of performance. The Herbert Grünewald Foundation specifically promotes sporting opportunities for the disabled and Bayer’s own initiative Einfach Fußball (Simply Football) also encourages
participation in Germany’s most popular sport. The intention behind Bayer’s engagement is to increase awareness and acceptance of disabled sports in Germany and abroad. Through their role-model function top-performing para athletes can help young disabled people to live their lives more self-confidently and master the inevitable challenges they face with a sportingly positive attitude. Bayer competitors at the Dubai World Championships One of those sporting role models is 31-year-old Markus Rehm. After a water-sport accident at the age of 14, Markus’ right leg was amputated below the knee. Thanks to a carbon-fiber bladed prosthesis Markus set off on an inspiring sporting career as a long-jumper and sprinter. He currently holds the world disability record in long jump at 8.48 m and also won the long jump title at the 2014 German championships as well as some other meetings. Additionally, he won long jump gold medals at the 2012 and 2016 Paralympics and a gold medal as a member of the 4x100 meter relay team in 2016. In long jump and sprint events he won four gold medals at IPC World Championships (2011-2017) and four long jump gold medals at IPC European Championships (2012-2018). At the Dubai World Championships Markus will be competing in the long jump. Another member of the German team is 24-year-old Johannes Floors, a double below-knee amputee. A member of TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen since 2013, Johannes will be competing in the 100 m, 400 m and 4x100 m relay competitions in Dubai. He is currently the world record holder in the 100 m (10.66 sec) and 200 m (21.22 sec). At the 2016 Paralympics in Rio, Johannes won a gold medal with the 4x100 m relay team and came home from the 2017 World Championships in London with gold medals in the 400 m, 200 m and 4x100 m relay. Although born in Pretoria, South Africa, 28-year-old Irmgard Bensusan is running for Germany at the Dubai World Championships and has been with Bayer 04 Leverkusen since 2014. In her strongest disciplines Irmgard, who suffers from a partial paralysis of the lower right leg, holds world records in the 100 m (12.72 sec) and 200 m (26.15 sec) as well as the German record in the 400 m (59.62 sec). She won silver medals at the 2016 Paralympics in the 100 m, 200 m and 400 m, and followed this up with gold in the 2
400 m and silver in the 200 m at the 2017 World Championships. In Dubai Irmgard will battling for medals in the 100 m and 200 m events. Though born in La Paz, Bolivia, 24-year-old Felix Streng is a German national and competing for Germany in the 100 m and long jump events in Dubai. Felix, who was born without a right fibula, has set junior world records in the 200 m (22.22 sec) and 400 m (54.92 sec). He won a gold medal at the 2016 Paralympics in the 4x100 m relay team and bronze medals in the 100 m and long jump competitions. Felix returned from the 2018 IPC European Championships in Berlin with gold medals in the 100 m, 200 m and 4x100 m relay competitions and a long jump silver medal. 22-year-old Léon Schäfer, an above-knee amputee, has been competing for TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen since he was 14. At the Dubai World Championships Léon will be taking part in the 100 m and long jump competitions. His long jump world record stands at 6.99 m and the European record on 200m. His most recent successes at international events were a gold medal in the 4x100 m relay and a bronze medal in the long jump at the 2017 World Championships in London. 33-year-old David Behre, a member of TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen since 2008, will be competing at the Dubai World Championships in the 100 m and 4x100 relay events. The double below-knee amputee won gold with the 4x100m relay team, silver in the 400 m and bronze in the 100 m. David is training hard for the Dubai World Championships and hopes the event will prove to be a successful springboard for the Tokyo Olympics next summer. A relative newcomer to the Bayer team having only joined the club in 2017, 30-year-old Maria Tietze will be competing at the Dubai World Championships in her strongest disciplines, the 100 m, 200 m and long jump events. A below-knee amputee, Maria currently holds the German indoor long jump record at 4.88 m and the 100 m record at 13.65 sec. She is hoping to make the finals in the long jump and 200 m events at the Dubai World Championships. 29-year-old Johannes Bessel will be competing in the 1,500 m event in Dubai. This is undoubtedly his strongest discipline as he won a bronze medal in the 1,500 m at the 2018 IPC European Championships in Berlin and holds the German record at this 3
distance with a time of 4:11.28. However, Johannes is also the German record-holder in the 800 m with a time of 2:06.04 and races the 400 m as well to improve his sprint speed. Johannes’ disability is a paralyzed left arm. 22-year-old Tom Malutedi was born with one leg 7.5 cm shorter than the other, but this did not prevent him from playing soccer, his first love. However, the risk of serious injury led him to switch to para athletics and he will be battling for medals in three events in Dubai: the 100 m, 200 m and high jump. Although Tom only began intensive athletics training in 2017, he won a gold medal in the men’s 4x100 m relay team at the World Championships in London that same year. At the 9th TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen Integrative Sports Festival in June 2019 Tom set a new European record in the 100 m with a time of 11.85 sec, the first time he had run the distance in under 12 sec. 17-year-old Nele Moos will be competing the women’s 100 m, 200 m and long jump events at the Dubai World Championships. This young athlete’s best results in her nascent career were a silver medal in the long jump at the 2019 Youth World Championships. 4
Markus Rehm Johannes Floors 5
Irmgard Bensusan Felix Streng 6
Léon Schäfer David Behre 7
Maria Tietze Nele Moos 8
Tom Malutedi Johannes Bessel 9
The Bayer support crew No top athlete can compete without professional support from a highly qualified team. The Bayer athletes taking part in the Dubai World Championships will be accompanied by three Bayer coaches, Karl-Heinz Düe, Steffi Nerius and Matthias Esser. Karl-Heinz Düe is an old hand, having been with TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen since 1972; Steffi Nerius, a former javelin world champion (2009), is Markus Rehm’s coach; and Matthias Esser, the 2007 parcouring world champion, only joined the club as a para athlete coach this year. TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen’s Director of Sport for Disabled Persons, Jörg Frischmann, will be traveling to Dubai as team manager. Jörg won gold, silver and bronze medals in the shot put and javelin competitions at five Paralympics from 1992- 2008. The team doctor is Dr. Helmut Hoffmann, who works for the German Disabled Sports Association as a track and field sports doctor. Ulrich Niepoth, a former sitting volleyball player for Bayer Leverkusen, is the head physiotherapist. Constanze Wedell, the youth coach in Leverkusen, will supporting the team as a personal assistant. Nico Feisst will be traveling with the team as press officer. And the biomechanic Ralf Müller, who is being sponsored by OSP Rhineland and supported by Bayer will also be supporting the team. The former Bayer Paralympic champion Heinrich Popow will be attending the World Championships in Dubai as technical adviser to Team Japan and on behalf of his company Otto Bock. Heinrich also acts as technical adviser for most of the Bayer athletes. 10
Competition schedule
Date Day Session Event Event Classes eligible Round Athletes competing
starting
time
07.11.2019 Thursday 1 Evening 20:12 Women's 200 m T64 T44/64 Round 1 Bensusan, Tietze
Heat 1
07.11.2019 Thursday 1 Evening 20:20 Women's 200 m T64 T44/64 Round 1 Bensusan, Tietze
Heat 2
07.11.2019 Thursday 1 Evening 20:29 Men's 1500 m T46 T45/46 Final Bessel
08.11.2019 Friday 2 Evening 19:21 Men's 200 m T64 T44/T64 Round 1 Malutedi
Heat 1
08.11.2019 Friday 2 Evening 19:30 Men's 200 m T64 T44/T64 Round 1 Malutedi
Heat 2
09.11.2019 Saturday 3 Morning 11:29 Women's 200 m T64 T44/64 Final Bensusan, Tietze
09.11.2019 Saturday 4 Evening 18:06 Women's Long Jump T38 T38 Final Moos
09.11.2019 Saturday 4 Evening 19:10 Men's 200 m T64 T44/64 Final Malutedi
10.11.2019 Sunday 6 Evening 19:52 Men's Long Jump T63 T42/61/63 Final Schäfer
10.11.2019 Sunday 6 Evening 20:23 Men's 100 m T64 T44/62/64 Round 1 Streng, Malutedi, Floors, Behre
Heat 1
10.11.2019 Sunday 6 Evening 20:32 Men's 100 m T64 T44/62/64 Round 1 Streng, Malutedi, Floors, Behre
Heat 2
11.11.2019 Monday 8 Evening 19:15 Men's High Jump T64 T44/64 Final Malutedi
11.11.2019 Monday 8 Evening 20:07 Women's Long Jump T64 T44/62/64 Final Tietze
11.11.2019 Monday 8 Evening 20:12 Men's 100 m T64 T44/62/64 Final Streng, Malutedi, Floors, Behre
12.11.2019 Tuesday 9 Morning 09:59 Women's 100 m T64 T44/62/64 Round 1 Bensusan, Tietze
Heat 1
12.11.2019 Tuesday 9 Morning 10:11 Women's 100 m T64 T44/62/64 Round 1 Bensusan, Tietze
Heat 2
12.11.2019 Tuesday 10 Evening 20:13 Women's 100 m T64 T44/62/64 Final Bensusan, Tietzte
12.11.2019 Tuesday 10 Evening 20:42 Women's 100 m T38 T38 Final Moos
13.11.2019 Wednesday 12 Evening 19:04 Women's 200 m T38 T38 Final Moos
13.11.2019 Wednesday 12 Evening 19:30 Men's Long Jump T64 T44/62/64 Final Rehm, Streng
13.11.2019 Wednesday 12 Evening 20:42 Men's 100 m T63 T42/63 Round 1 Schäfer
Heat 1
13.11.2019 Wednesday 12 Evening 20:50 Men's 100 m T63 T42/63 Round 1 Schäfer
Heat 2
14.11.2019 Thursday 13 Morning 11:30 Universal Relay 4x 100 m T1x/3x/4x/5x/6x Round 1 Behre, Floors
Heat 1
14.11.2019 Thursday 13 Morning 11:45 Universal Relay 4x 100 m T1x/3x/4x/5x/6x Round 1 Behre, Floors
Heat 2
14.11.2019 Thursday 14 Evening 20:47 Universal Relay 4x 100m T1x/3x/4x/5x/6x Final Behre, Floors
15.11.2019 Friday 15 Evening 18:49 Men's 100 m T63 T42/63 Final Schäfer
15.11.2019 Friday 15 Evening 20:25 Men's 400 m T62 T62 Final Floors
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