Marc Andre Schuh (born 12 August 1989 in

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) is a German wheelchair sprinter.

Life

Marc Schuh was born with a spine malformation which keeps him from walking. He finished gymnasium with

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in 2007 at the Otto-Hahn-Gymnasium in

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as best of the year in chemistry and physics. In the same year he started his studies at the University of Heidelberg majoring physics. In 2012 he finished his bachelor's degree and started his master, which he finished in 2014; his master thesis is about ''Simulations of the electrostatic and magnetic field properties and tests of the Penning-ion source at THe-Trap''. In November 2014 he became a Ph.D. student at the

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in the group

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at The-Trap experiment. The goal of the experiment was to improve the Q-value of Tritium by using Penning-traps. He finished his PhD in May 2019 with the thesis titled "Simulations of the image charge effect in high-precision Penningtraps and the new IGISOL ionbuncher". Currently he is working as an IT consultant in Munich.

Successes

After trying wheelchair basketball and wheelchair tennis, he took part at his first athletics competition the Mobifanten-Cup as part of the competition Heidelberg-Marathon at the age of 10, which he won directly.Gernal sport success see his personal websit
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/ref> 2005 he became second at his first junior U18 world championships

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(United Kingdom) in the 100 m and 200 m. At the

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in Beijing he reached the semi-final in the 400 m. In the same year he became junior world champion in United States in the 100 m, 200 m und 400 m in the category U20. In 2009 he won gold at the junior world championship in

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in the 100 m, 200 m, 400 m and 4x100 m relay, this time in the category U23. Additionally since 2009 Marc Schuh owns the German national records in the 100 m, 200 m and 400 m. In November 2009 he took part at the IWAS-World championship in Bangalore and became world champion in the 400 m. Since 2010 he owns the European record in the 400 m with a time of 45,64 s. 2015 he improved this record down to 45,40 s and raced again the second fastest time in history. He is the first and only athlete that could stay under 46 s more than once. In total he stayed three times under 46 s. At the

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in London Schuh became fifth on the 100 m and sixth on the 400 m. At the world championships 2013 in Lyon he won silver in the 400 m and bronze in the 100 m. 2014 he started at the IPC-European Championship in

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in the 100 m, 200 m, 400 m and 800 m. On all four distances he finished on the podium. His best result is a silver medal in the 400 m.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Schuh, Marc 1989 births Living people German male wheelchair racers Paralympic athletes for Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the World Para Athletics Championships Medalists at the World Para Athletics European Championships Sportspeople from Bergisch Gladbach