Kirsten Bruhn

1969-on the 03.11.1969 Kirsten Bruhn was born in Eutin as latest by 5 children.
 1990-she finished school and went afterwards 1 year as an au pair girl to New Jersey / USA.
 Since she was 3 years old she is linked with the swimming sport by her family. (Father and mother, as well as the brothers and sisters were all achievement swimmers or beach-ball players). She swims since she was ten years old and was successful with the juniors as well as with the senior citizens in the country.
Then her private study "graphic arts and design" started 1991-in Hamburg. By the motorcycle accident in 1991 in Greece on the island Kos with which an incomplete cross section paralysis suffered, she couldn´t finance the private study she was lined up for, unfortunately. Then she pursued  the swimming as less as a serious sport, than to stay flexible and fit.
1993 after two year of rehabilitation she began with the education to a social insurance assistant at the AOK Schleswig - Holstein in the Office Neumünster.
 "After repeated appealing of a swimming companion from the
Senior citizen's area, I started in 2002 the first time in a swimming competition of the DBS
(German handicapped sport association)".
With the disabled persons it is swum not in open age groups or in years, but after start classes.
The classification is carried out absolutely nationwide and absolutely internationally. The start classes are depending on the effectiveness in the water. However, on this occasion, it can absolutely be that compete in a start class Wheel chair driver and Pedestrian. One beside appearance from it is, e.g., that not everybody is begun from the water, but partially by the starting block within a start class.

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"My training expenditure amounts per week 20 - 25 Stunden.4 - to 12 x water (by 2 hrs) and 3 - 6 x athletics and weight training (by from 1 to 2 hrs). A training unity contains 3 to 5 km, this is depending on the main focus of the training program. Main focuses can be: Perseverance, sprint / spurt, style, technology, respiration, turns and starts, and in the dry training condition and strength.
I get support in big measure of my family and of course especially of my parents. (My father is my trainer). My employer the AOK Schleswig Holstein gives me the necessary clearance in the form of special vacation, and this gives me space and time for training.
Beside the swimming my creativity is for me a welcome one to have the possibility to make sometimes something else. So I do Oil painting or I create clothes and jewellery. Then I let produce it of my tailor or goldsmith.
 
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