Jochen Wollmert

Jochen Wollmert ( born November 22, 1964) is a German table tennis player and multiple winner at the Paralympic Games. He currently plays for TV Mosbach in the big leagues and sports for the disabled for the RBS Solingen. The now 48 -year-old took at the age of 43 years in Beijing for the second time individual gold and repeated the singles gold medal in 2012 at the Paralympics in London. He is trained by Volker Ziegler.

Sporting successes

Already in his first Paralympics participation in Barcelona in 1992 he won the singles and the team bronze. 1996 Atlanta, 2000 Sydney and 2004 in Athens, he took each with the team gold. In the individual he was able to win the silver medal in Atlanta and Athens. Paralympics champion he was repeating the first time in Sydney in 2000 and was this success in Beijing in 2008 and London 2012.

When disabled World Cup 1990 in Assen, he won with the team and in singles. This double success in team and individual he repeated at the World Championships in Montreux 2006. During the 1998 World Cup in Paris, he was the individual winner. At the European Championships, he was several times in the individual at the top of the podium. Overall, he was 38 - times German champion of the disabled athletes, including 19 times in singles, 10 times in duplicate and 11- times German champion with the team ( currently with the RBS Solingen ). Since March 1, 1998, the world ranking was introduced, he was over 10 years, the number 1 in the world in its class, including 9 consecutive years. Currently, Jochen Wollmert as number 4 in its class.

Jochen Wollmert has managed to each of its six Paralympics participations, five times consecutively, ie since Atlanta 1996, always to be in the singles final. Three times he won, he won silver twice.

Jochen Wollmert also plays in teams of non-disabled, to 2012 in the top league of TTVWH for the TSG Heilbronn and since 2012 for the TV Mosbach in Baden League and from the 2013/2014 season in the Oberliga Baden- Württemberg.

Because of his successes, he was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame in 2010 as the first German table tennis player. His fair behavior during the 2012 Paralympics was awarded the Fair Play Award of the German sport and he was awarded the athletes with heart on the German Sports Press Ball. Additionally, won Jochen Wollmert the price Disabled Athlete of the Year in 2012 and repeated his award for disabled athlete of the year 2008 with the Felix Award in 2012. On September 18, 2013 Wollmert by the International Committee for Fair Play ( CIFP ) awarded the Baron de Coubertin Award, the world's highest accolade for fair play in sport.

Personal

Jochen Wollmert began with 17 years active in the club to play table tennis. From birth, he has a stiffening of the hand and foot joints ( arthrogryposis multiplex congenita ) ( AMC). In disability sport he takes in the start class M7. He works as a press officer at the Barmer GEK and has three children.