Catherine Bader-Bille
Catherine Bader- Bille ( born 14 September 1965 in Leipzig) is a former German athlete who had (A6 / 8 Damage Class: upper arm / forearm amputated ) in disabled sports won numerous national and international titles. She holds to this day two world records.
Childhood
Catherine Bader- Bille was born the daughter of a Leipzig rower and a sports student from the Ivory Coast without a right forearm. Even as a child she ran competitive sports and dreamed of an Olympic victory. In the GDR, which she did not because of their disability, access to the children's and youth sports school.
Sporting career
Only after the turn of Catherine Bader- Bille began in 1997 at the age of 32 years, again with the competitive sports. First, she trained under the direction of Rositha Hellmann at TuS Jena. During this time, she won her first international title. In Madrid it was 1997 European silver medalist in the long jump and in the same year, German champion. In October 1997, she was elected to second place in the election "Sportswoman of the Year" by the city of Jena.
1998 succeeded Bader- Bille at the German championships a triple success. She won both the wide - and in the high jump. In the 100 - meter sprint they made it to second place.
At a ceremony in Thuringia athletes they learned in the winter of 1998, the multiple medal winner and subsequent training partner Heike Drechsler know that she her former father - the former coach of the jump GDR Erich Drechsler - imagined. The retired success coach coached Bader- Bille from 1999 honorary up to their career-ending 2005.
Already in the same year, Bader- Bille at the German Championships in Schwetzingen two German records. She won the long jump and secured thereby qualifying for the Paralympics. They also won the triple jump and high jump and finished second in the 100 - meter sprint. In October 1999, she then decided the Australian championships in the long jump and triple jump for itself.
2000 was its most successful year. First Bader- Bille occupied at the German championships in wine-growing town in both the wide - and in the high jump square one. The high jump and she put it on a still valid today world record. In the 100 - meter race she finished third. In October 2000, she won with 80,000 spectators packed the Olympic Stadium in Sydney at the 2000 Paralympics in the long jump with a centimeter ahead of their competition the gold medal. It was followed by numerous honors, including her election as " Disabled Sportswoman of the Year" by the city of Jena and awarded by the Federal President Johannes Rau with the Silver Laurel Leaf in February 2001. Also in 2001, Bader- Bille was at Assen, Netherlands European Champion in the high jump and long jump, as well as European vice- champion in the 100 meters. In the sports festival in Leverkusen she improved her own German record in the triple jump. In Hamburg she won in the summer at the German Championships again both in the long - as well as in high jump one place, over 100 meters, she took second place. The Free State of Thuringia honored her for it in 2001 as " Sportswoman of the Year " in disabled sports.
Until the final termination of her career in 2005 Catherine Bader- Bille get several more title wins, including at the World Championships in Lille, France in 2002, the European Championships in Assen, Netherlands (2003) and the International Indoor Championships in Leverkusen ( 2005). During its active period, the dark-skinned athlete appeared several times as a model in appearance.
During her playing career was Bader- Bille from 2002-2004 in the Bidding Committee for the Olympic Games " Leipzig 2012" as a project manager responsible for the area Paralympics. Then they took on behalf of the German Olympic Sports Confederation and the German Foreign Office coaching activities for Paralympic teams abroad.
The mother of two grown sons is a qualified communications specialist landlady and lives in Leipzig.