Denise Schindler (born 9 November 1985) is a German Paralympic cyclist.
Life and career
Schindler got into a tram accident when she was three years old, resulting in her right leg being amputated below the knee. She began cycling when she was 18.
She participated at the Paralympic Games in
2012
2012 was designated as:
*International Year of Cooperatives
*International Year of Sustainable Energy for All
Events January
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, where she won a silver medal in the
women's road race C1–3 event, and in
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
, where she won a silver medal in the
women's road time trial C1–3 event and a bronze medal in the
women's road race C1–3 event.
Schindler worked with software company
Autodesk
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to develop of a new process for making prosthetics for amputees which could be measured digitally and made using 3D printing. The resulting prosthetic was lighter, cheaper and could take five days to make rather than 10 weeks. She used it at the
2016 Paralympic Games
The 2016 Summer Paralympics (), the 15th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for disabled sports, athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, f ...
.
In 2021, Schindler was elected to represent Paralympic cyclists in the UCI Athletes’ Commission alongside
Colin Lynch.
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1985 births
Living people
German female cyclists
Paralympic cyclists for Germany
Paralympic silver medalists for Germany
Paralympic bronze medalists for Germany
Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic medalists in cycling
Sportspeople from Chemnitz
German amputees
Amputee-category Paralympic competitors
Cyclists from Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt
20th-century German women
21st-century German sportswomen