Manuela Schär
Personal information | |
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Birth name | Manuela Schär |
Born | 5 December 1984 |
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) |
Weight | 46 kg (101 lb) |
Sport | |
Disability | Spinal cord injury |
Disability class | T54 |
Coached by | Roland Giger |
Medal record |
Manuela Schär (born 5 December 1984) is a Paralympian athlete from Switzerland competing mainly in category T54 sprint events. Since age 8 Manuela has used a wheelchair, after a playground accident paralysed her from the waist down.[1]
Career
She competed in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. There she won a silver medal in the women's 200 metres – T54 event, bronze in the women's 100 metres – T54 event and finished sixth in the women's 400 metres – T54 event.
At the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China, she won bronze in the women's 200 metres – T54 event, finishing fourth in the 100 metres and sixth again in the women's 400 metres.
She competed again in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, but her best results were two fifth places.
In 2017, she won the Women's Wheelchair category of the 121st Boston Marathon and the 37th London Marathon.
In 2018, she won the Women's Wheelchair category of the 2018 Chicago Marathon.
References
- Manuela Schär at the International Paralympic Committee
- Manuela Schär at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived) , while 2008 results appear as Manuela Schär at the International Paralympic Committee
- Manuela Schär at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)
- Manuela Schär's home page (in German)
- Paralympic athletes of Switzerland
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Switzerland
- Paralympic silver medalists for Switzerland
- Swiss female sprinters
- Living people
- 1984 births
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Boston Marathon female winners
- London Marathon female winners
- Swiss athletics biography stubs
- Paralympic medalist stubs