Philipp Bonadimann

Philipp Bonadimann ( born July 24, 1980 in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg) is an Austrian Behindertenskisportler. In alpine skiing for wheelchair users ( Monoskibob ) he won two bronze medals and a silver medal at the Paralympics, he is two -time World Champion and overall World Cup winner in 2011.

Accident and professional career

Philipp Bonadimann injured himself at the age of 17 in a crash with a small motorcycle. A fracture of the 11th and 12th thoracic vertebra was diagnosed and resulted in paraplegia. In a wheelchair, he continued his education at the Commercial Academy and Bundeshandelsschule Bregenz. After high school he studied at the Fachhochschule Vorarlberg the degree program for Operational Project and process management. Since 2007 he has worked as a group leader of the issuing authority for medical aids and devices in the Vorarlberg Health Insurance.

Also in disabled sports most top athletes dedicate themselves in the wake of the growing professionalization only the training and competition preparation - Philipp Bonadimann one of the few disabled athletes in the world top who are professionally active in competitive sports in addition to the full time.

Career

Philipp Bonadimann rose in 2003 a wheelchair Club Vorarlberg. From 2005 he drove in the European Cup, the European Cup account consists of 16 medals:

  • 7 individual wins
  • 6 second places
  • 3 third places
  • 1 time European Cup overall winner
  • Total European Cup victories in the slalom discipline and super combined.

The World Cup debut took place in 2008. Between 2011 and 2012 he won the slalom World Cup standings, 2011, he won the overall World Cup. The greatest successes he recorded at the 2010 Paralympics with two bronze medals, as well as at the World Cup 2013 in La Molina with two gold medals and one bronze medal. He also took eleven national title and three time national silver and two bronze medals.

Handbike, USA and Australia traversal

In 2006, a six-member team of the wheelchair hand bike clubs Vorarlberg with Thomas Bechtel, Philipp Bonadimann, Jurgen Egle, Hubert Kilga, Klaus Salzmann, Wolfgang Wimmer and Bernd Piendl involved (replacement) in the Race Across America. Danger was around the clock with two teams. Each team consisted of three athletes, one Following car, which was permanently behind the athletes, as well as an RV with a trailer as the base station. As more and was only an athlete on the track, the other two regenerated in the camper. The athletes changing after an hour 's drive away. The six-person wheelchair team defeated the route with 4,912 kilometers and 33,440 meters of altitude in 10 days 0 hours and 12 minutes.

2010 crossed a team of wheelchair clubs Vorarlberg with Thomas Bechtel, Philipp Bonadimann, Jurgen Egle and Wolfgang Wimmer Australia on the route from Perth to Sydney. The race distance of 4,032 kilometers and 13,072 meters of altitude for 10 hours and 42 minutes mastered in 6 days. This record was recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2012.

Honors

  • 3 times Vorarlberg Sportsman of the Year (Category Disabled Sports ), 2010, 2011, 2012
  • Golden Sports Decoration of the Land Vorarlberg
  • Grand Gold Decoration of the Austrian Ski Federation
  • Gold decoration of the Vorarlberg ski association
  • Silver Medal of the Republic of Austria
Downhill Super-G Giant slalom Slalom skiing Alpine skiing combined 2014 Winter Paralympics 2010 Winter Paralympics Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences Handcycle
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