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Manuela Schär

Schär competing in the 2017 London Marathon
Personal information
Birth name	Manuela Schär
Born	(1984-12-05) 5 December 1984 (age 40)
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	46 kg (101 lb)
Sport
Disability	Spinal cord injury
Disability class	T54
Coached by	Claudio Perret
Medal record Women's paralympic athletics Representing   Switzerland Paralympic Games 2020 Tokyo 400m T54 2020 Tokyo 800m T54 2024 Paris 800 m T54 2004 Athens 200 m T54 2020 Tokyo 5000 m T54 2020 Tokyo 1500 m T54 2020 Tokyo Marathon T54 2024 Paris 400 m T54 2004 Athens 100 m T54 2008 Beijing 200 m T54 World Championships 2013 Lyon Marathon T54 2023 Paris 800 m T54 2023 Paris 400 m T54 2013 Lyon 400 m T54 2013 Lyon 800 m T54 2013 Lyon 5000 m T54 2023 Paris 5000 m T54 2023 Paris 1500m T54 2011 Christchurch 200 m T54 2011 Christchurch 400 m T54 European Championships 2014 Swansea 400 m T54 2014 Swansea 800 m T54 2014 Swansea 1500 m T54

Manuela Schär (born December 5, 1984) is a paralympic athlete from Switzerland, competing mainly in category T54 sprint events. She has used a wheelchair since the age of 8, when a playground accident paralyzed her from the waist down.

Career

Schär competed in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. There she won a silver medal in the women's 200 meters (T54 event), bronze in the women's 100 meters (T54 event), and finished sixth in the women's 400 meters (T54 event). At the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China, she won bronze in the women's 200 meters (T54) event, finishing fourth in the 100 meters and sixth again in the women's 400 meters. She competed again in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where her best results were two fifth places.

In 2017, she won the women's wheelchair category of the 121st Boston Marathon and the 37th London Marathon. In 2018, she won the women's wheelchair category of the 2018 Chicago Marathon and the 2018 TCS New York City Marathon. In 2019, she won all six World Marathon Majors (Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York).

In 2021, she won the women's wheelchair race at the 2021 Berlin Marathon, the 2021 London Marathon, and the 2021 Boston Marathon.

In 2022, she won the women's wheelchair race at the 2022 Boston Marathon.

References

1. "Manuela Schär".
2. "2019 New York City Marathon Results". NBC Sports. 3 November 2019. Archived from the original on 12 November 2019. Retrieved 21 August 2020.

External links

• Manuela Schär at the International Paralympic Committee
• Manuela Schär at the Swiss Paralympic Committee (in German and French)
• Official website (in German)

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