Verena Schott (born 6 March 1989) is a German
paraswimmer and
Paralympic medal winner.
Biography
Schott was born in 1989 in
Greifswald. At the age of three, she and her family moved to
Bennewitz,
Saxony; when she was eight, she took up swimming and joined a swimming club in nearby
Wurzen. In 2002, she was severely injured riding her bicycle when a van hit her while overtaking. This left her with incomplete
paraplegia
Paraplegia, or paraparesis, is an impairment in motor or sensory function of the lower extremities. The word comes from Ionic Greek ()
"half-stricken". It is usually caused by spinal cord injury or a congenital condition that affects the neural ...
and she now uses a
wheelchair.
She competes in the S7, SM6 and SB5 classifications.
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In 2010 Schott left the club in
Leipzig where she had been training when she moved to
Berlin to study biology at the
Humboldt University of Berlin. There she began training with Matthias Ulm at Berlin's Paralympic Sport Club (PSC Berlin).
She had a son, Lean, in June 2011.
Schott competed at the
2010 IPC Swimming World Championships
The 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships was an international swimming competition, the biggest meet for athletes with a disability since the 2008 Summer Paralympics. It was held in Eindhoven, Netherlands and lasted from 14 to 21 August.
Venue
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where she won silver medals in the SB5 100 m breaststroke and SM6 200 m individual medley.
At the
London 2012 Paralympics
The 2012 Summer Paralympics, branded as the London 2012 Paralympic Games, were an international multi-sport parasports event held from 29 August to 9 September 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. They were the 14th Summer Paralympic Game ...
she reached the finals in four disciplines and won the silver medal in the
SM6 200 m medley, coming second to
Ellie Simmonds
Eleanor May Simmonds, OBE (born 11 November 1994) is a British former Paralympian swimmer who competed in S6 events. She came to national attention when she competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, winning two gold medals for Gre ...
,
who posted a world record time.
At the
2013 World Championships she again came second in the
200 m medley, as well as winning bronze in the
100 m breaststroke.
Schott was at the World Para Swimming Allianz Championships in 2019 in London. She competed in the 100m backstroke S6 and took gold beating the world record holder
Song Lingling.
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1989 births
Living people
German female breaststroke swimmers
German female medley swimmers
German disabled sportspeople
S7-classified para swimmers
Paralympic swimmers for Germany
Paralympic silver medalists for Germany
Paralympic bronze medalists for Germany
Paralympic medalists in swimming
Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships
Medalists at the World Para Swimming European Championships
Sportspeople from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
People from Greifswald
People from Bezirk Rostock
People with paraplegia