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Born | Kiel, Germany | 17 March 1964||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Para-cycling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Paralympic finals | 2012, 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World finals | 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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.
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]
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]