Nele Alder-Baerens (born 1 April 1978) is a German female distance runner and marathon runner.[1][2] She is regarded as one of the finest long-distance runners from Germany to have represented the nation at the Deaflympics.[3] Nele Alder-Baerens has represented Germany at the Deaflympics in 1997, 2001, 2005, 2017 and in 2022 has clinched 5 medals in her Deaflympic career including 2 gold medals. She is also the defending champion in the women's marathon at the Deaflympics. Nele also currently holds few deaf world records in the women's Athletics.[4]
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| Nationality | German | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | April 1, 1978 Berlin, Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 161 cm (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 45 kg (99 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | middle-distance running, marathon, ultramarathon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Ultra Sport Club Marburg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
editNele Alder-Baerens was born on the 1st of April, 1978 in Berlin. She is very short sighted with twelve dioptres due to early birth and deaf. Despite her disability with both blindness and deafness, she took the sport of Athletics and also competed in the German National Athletics Championships. In 2000, she was awarded the Junior Deaf Sportswoman of the Year award. She graduated from the Margarathe von Witzleben School which is located in Berlin.[5][6]
Career
editNele made her Deaflympic debut at the 1997 Summer Deaflympics and couldn't win any medal in the competition. She claimed her first medal at the Deaflympics in 2001, where she won the silver medal in the women's 800 m individual event.[7] Nele continued her medal hunt at the 2005 Summer Deaflympics by claiming gold medal in the women's 5000 m event[8] and bronze medal in the women's 10000 m event.[9][10] In the 2017 Summer Deaflympics, she clinched her first Deaflympic medal for marathon event after winning the gold medal in the women's marathon event.[11] In 2016, despite her disability she participated in the women's IAU 50 km World Championships and secured silver medal in the event which was held in Doha.[12]
Nele was awarded the ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year award in 2016 by the Comite International des Sports des Sourds.[13] She was also nominated for the ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year award in 2005.[14]
Nele Alder-Baerens also holds the world record in the Ultra marathon 6H Road event with a record of 85.492 km distance.[15] In 2019 at the 24-hour World Championship in Albi, France, Nele ran 254.288 km (158 miles) for a silver medal overall in the female competition for farthest distance covered in 24 hours. She was ahead of the next competitor by a little over 4 miles.[16]
She took part at the 2021 Summer Deaflympics (held in May 2022) which also marked her fifth appearance at the competition since her debut in 1997. She fell short of a bronze medal finish to Kenya's Grancy Kandogar in the women's 10000 m race final after finishing at fourth place clocking 40:34.62 seconds.[17]
References
edit- ^ temp_adm. "Nele Alder-Baerens — Presseportal". www.hu-berlin.de (in German). Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- ^ "Nele ALDER-BAERENS". Deaflympics. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
- ^ "Deaflympics 2017 Samsun". www.deaflympics2017.org (in Turkish). Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- ^ LAUFTICKER.DE. "Alder-Baerens, Nele". www.laufticker.de (in German). Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- ^ SOF (13 January 2005). "WAS MACHT EIGENTLICH ...Nele Alder-Baerens?: Olympisches Gold gewinnen". Die Tageszeitung: taz. p. 22. ISSN 0931-9085. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- ^ "Dr. Nele Alder-Baerens bricht deutsche Bestmarke". www.leichtathletik.de | Das Leichtathletik-Portal (in German). 12 December 2017. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- ^ "Women's 800 m | 2001 Summer Deaflympics". Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- ^ "Women's 5000 m | 2005 Summer Deaflympics". Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- ^ "Women's 10000 m | 2005 Summer Deaflympics". Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- ^ "WM-Silber und -Bronze für deutsche Ultraläufer". www.leichtathletik.de | Das Leichtathletik-Portal (in German). 12 December 2017. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- ^ "Women's marathon | 2017 Summer Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- ^ "IAAF: Migliozzi and Kimaiyo win IAU 50 km World Championships| News | iaaf.org". iaaf.org. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- ^ "2016 ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year | Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- ^ "News | Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- ^ "IAU World Best Performances October 2010" (PDF). 23 September 2010. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 29 October 2019. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Ponce Juarez wins first athletics gold of Deaflympics in women's 10,000 m". www.insidethegames.biz. 8 May 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
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