Wilhelm Brem (born 23 November 1977) is a

Paralympic The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaire ...

biathlete The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skiing and shooting sports, rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into sh ...

and

cross-country skier Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreation ...

representing Germany in the

Winter Paralympics The Winter Paralympic Games is an international multi-sport event where athletes with physical disabilities compete in snow and ice sports. The event includes athletes with mobility impairments, amputations, blindness, and cerebral palsy. Th ...

and the IPC World Championships. He often skis with Florian Grimm as his guide. As of the

2014 Winter Paralympics The 2014 Winter Paralympics (russian: Зимние Паралимпийские игры 2014, Zimniye Paralimpiyskiye igry 2014), the 11th Paralympic Winter Games, and also more generally known as the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, were an ...

Sochi Sochi ( rus, Со́чи, p=ˈsotɕɪ, a=Ru-Сочи.ogg) is the largest resort city in Russia. The city is situated on the Sochi River, along the Black Sea in Southern Russia, with a population of 466,078 residents, up to 600,000 residents in ...

, Brem has won 4 gold, 3 silver, and 4 bronze medals between the Paralympics games and the IPC World Championships. Brem was awarded the

Silver Laurel Leaf Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (Silver Laurel Leaf), the highest sports award in Germany, was endowed on 23 June 1950 by the German President Theodor Heuss. It is awarded to athletes and teams of exemplary character that have won medals at Olympic and ...

in 2010, the highest athletic award in Germany. He was the German flag bearer during the closing ceremony of the 2014 Paralympics in Sochi. Brem began losing his sight at eight years old; by fourteen, he was fully blind. He has been para-Nordic skiing since he was 16.

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* 1977 births Living people German male biathletes German male cross-country skiers Paralympic biathletes for Germany Paralympic cross-country skiers for Germany Biathletes at the 1994 Winter Paralympics Biathletes at the 1998 Winter Paralympics Cross-country skiers at the 1998 Winter Paralympics Biathletes at the 2002 Winter Paralympics Cross-country skiers at the 2002 Winter Paralympics Biathletes at the 2006 Winter Paralympics Biathletes at the 2010 Winter Paralympics Cross-country skiers at the 2010 Winter Paralympics Biathletes at the 2014 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2006 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2002 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 1998 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 1994 Winter Paralympics Paralympic medalists in biathlon Paralympic gold medalists for Germany 20th-century German people 21st-century German people People from Ostallgäu Sportspeople from Swabia (Bavaria) German blind people {{Germany-biathlon-bio-stub