Verena Bentele
Verena Bentele Monika ( born February 28, 1982 in Lindau on Lake Constance ) is a former German biathlete, cross-country skier, four -time World Champion and twelve -time Paralympics champion. Five of the twelve gold medals won in competitions Bentele the 10th Paralympic Winter Games. It is next to the alpine ski rider Lauren Woolstencroft is the only athlete who managed this in Vancouver, Canada. Since January 2014 Bentele is disabled Commissioner of the Federal Government.
Life
The blind from birth Verena Bentele grew up in Wellmutsweiler on the organic farm of their parents. One of her two brothers, Michael Bentele is also winter sports and Paralympian. Both are visually impaired. 1995 came Bentele in the national junior squad, followed in 1996 their first World Cup. Bentele was elected to the Bavarian Disabled Athlete of the Year and 2006 Sportsman of the Year of the German Disabled Sports Association 2005. In addition, she was awarded the " now - only - right - price " of the Bavarian Sport Award 2005. By 2006, they ran with the accompanying runners Franz Lankes, then they searched long unsuccessful, even by newspaper advertisement for a successor. After several attempts with various accompanying runners and a serious accident during the German Championships 2009 in Isny / Nesselwang Bentele ventured a fresh start with the experienced, originating from Scots accompanying runner Thomas Friedrich. The team came together quickly and was able to win the overall World Cup victory in cross-country skiing and biathlon in 2010, its first successes. Privately, are Bentele and Frederick a couple.
Bentele closed in 2011 for a master degree with a major in German Literature and a minor in Linguistics and Education at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich with a score of " very good". Your club is PSV Munich.
Since 2008, Bentele committed to the Christian Blind Mission as an ambassador. She is also sporting ambassador of the international Paralympic Committee IPC.
After their success at the Paralympics in Vancouver Bentele was awarded honorary citizenship of the city of Tettnang in March 2010. 8 May 2010 Bentele was honored by Prime Minister Stefan undersecretary with the Order of Merit of the State of Baden -Wuerttemberg. Also in 2010, she was awarded the Golden Ring of Honour of the City of Munich. In the same year, the athlete of the Baden-Württemberg SPD was nominated as a choice woman to the Federal Assembly, on 30 June 2010 the new German President chose.
Bentele won on 11 November 2010 the Bambi in the sports category, along with Verena Sailer. It belonged to Olympic election Presentation Team for Munich 2018 on 6 July 2011 in Durban, South Africa. For this application, it was with the medal Munich shines excellent.
On November 7, 2011, they declared the end of their sports career. On 10 December 2011, the disabled athlete Verena Bentele and Gerd Schoenfelder with the "2011 Paralympic Sport Award " (World Disabled Sportswoman of the Year ) were honored by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC ). The award was held in Beijing. Professionally, she holds now for business talks on motivation and teamwork. 2013, it ascended to the Kilimanjaro Africa's highest mountain and be the first blind person or Mount Meru in the same mountain range.
Bentele was also a member of the 15th Federal Assembly which elected the President on March 18, 2012. In May 2012, Verena Bentele the SPD joined. It was named in October 2012 by Christian Ude (SPD ) as an expert in the areas of sport and inclusion in his campaign team for the state elections in Bavaria in 2013. On January 15, 2014, it was appointed at the suggestion of the Federal Labour Minister Andrea Nahles for new disability Commissioner of the Federal Government. In the Bavarian municipal elections on March 16, 2014 Bentele was chosen for the SPD in the City Council of the City of Munich.