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Bernd Jeffré

Bernd Jeffré

German paracyclist

Bernd Jeffré (born 17 March 1964[1]) is a German paracyclist who won the handcycle race at the 2008 Berlin Marathon. He also won a bronze medal in the road time trial H3 event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, and has won three team relay bronze medals at the UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships. He competed at the delayed 2020 Summer Paralympics.

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Personal life

Jeffré was born in Kiel, Germany.[1] He has paraplegia,[1] after a crane accident at the age of 37.[2] Jeffré is married.[3]

Career

Jeffré started playing wheelchair basketball, and started competing with a handbike in 2004.[2] He trains at the Gymnastik-Club 1965 Nendorf.[2] He won the handcycle race at the 2008 Berlin Marathon,[4] in a course record time of 1:05:44. He was the first person to finish the Berlin Marathon race in under 1:10.00.[5] He came second in the handcycle race at the 2010 Berlin Marathon behind Vico Merklein. Jeffré and Merklein had led the race throughout.[5] Jeffré may have lost the race due to wearing too few clothes and becoming cold during the race.[3] His wife had suggested wearing more clothes, but Jeffré chose to ignore her.[3] He came eighth in the time trial event at the 2010 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, and fifth in the road race.[1] At the 2011 Championships, he came eighth in the road race.[1]

At the 2012 Summer Paralympics, Jeffré came third in the road time trial H3 event, and sixth in the road race H3.[6] He was the first Paralympic medallist from Lower Saxony. In 2013, he was a contender for German disabled athlete of the year.[7] At the 2014 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, Jeffré came sixth in the time trial. At the 2015 Championships, he came eighth at the same event.[1]

At the 2017 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, he was part of the German team that came third in the team relay event, alongside Mariusz Frankowski and Andrea Eskau.[8] He also came fourth in the individual time trial at the Championships.[1] In the same year, he came second in a European Handbike Circuit competition,[9] and second in a handbike marathon event in Rosenau, France.[10] In 2018, he came fifth in the World Championships time trial, sixth in the road race and seventh in the team relay.[1] He won the Road World Cup H4 overall standings for the season.[11] At the 2019 Championships, he came third in the team relay, eighth in the time trial and ninth in the road race.[1] At the 2021 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, Jeffré came third in the team relay event,[1][12] alongside Annika Zeyen and Vico Merklein.[13] He came 13th in the individual road race.[14]

In July 2021, Jeffré was selected for the German team for the delayed 2020 Summer Paralympics.[15] He finished eighth in the time trial H4 event,[16] and did not finish the road race H4[17] due to a technical problem with his handcycle.[18] He was part of the German team, alongside Zeyen and Merklein, that came fourth in the mixed team relay.[19]

References

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    "Nur Annika Zeyen entkommt der "Defekthexe"". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). 1 September 2022. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
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    "Results" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 September 2021. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
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