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'''Verena Schott''' (born 6 March 1989) is a German paraswimmer and Paralympic medal winner.
== Biography == Schott was born in 1989 in Greifswald. At the age of three, she and her family moved to Bennewitz, Saxony; when she was eight, she took up swimming and joined a swimming club in nearby Wurzen. In 2002, she was severely injured riding her bicycle when a van hit her while overtaking. This left her with incomplete paraplegia and she now uses a wheelchair.<ref name=Leipzig>{{cite news |last1=Pöls |first1=Matthias |title=Von Bennewitz ins Olympia-Becken |url=http://www.lvz-online.de/region/wurzen/von-bennewitz-ins-olympia-becken/r-wurzen-a-152867.html |access-date=21 December 2014 |work=Leipziger Volkszeitung |date=29 August 2012 |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221184457/http://www.lvz-online.de/region/wurzen/von-bennewitz-ins-olympia-becken/r-wurzen-a-152867.html |archive-date=21 December 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> She competes in the S7, SM6 and SB5 classifications.<ref name=IPC>{{cite web |author1=Infostrada Sports |title=Biographies |url=http://www.paralympic.org/athletes/biographies |publisher=International Paralympic Committee |access-date=21 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420210804/https://www.paralympic.org/Athletes/Biographies |archive-date=20 April 2019 |url-status=live}} (search for "Schott")</ref>
In 2010 Schott left the club in Leipzig where she had been training when she moved to Berlin to study biology at the Humboldt University of Berlin. There she began training with Matthias Ulm at Berlin's Paralympic Sport Club (PSC Berlin).<ref name=Leipzig /><ref name=Berlin /> She had a son, Lean, in June 2011.<ref name=Berlin />
Schott competed at the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships where she won silver medals in the SB5 100 m breaststroke and SM6 200 m individual medley.<ref name=IPC /><ref name=Berlin>{{cite news |title=Unsere Athleten für London 2012 |url=http://www.lsb-berlin.net/uploads/media/6_September_2012.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222160918/http://www.lsb-berlin.net/uploads/media/6_September_2012.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-02-22 |access-date=21 December 2014 |work=Sport in Berlin |publisher=Landessportbund Berlin |date=September 2012 |page=11 |language=de}}</ref> At the London 2012 Paralympics she reached the finals in four disciplines and won the silver medal in the SM6 200 m medley, coming second to Ellie Simmonds,<ref name=Humboldt>{{cite web |title=Zwei WM Medaillen für Verena Schott |url=http://www.zeh.hu-berlin.de/infos/singleview/article/zwei-wm-medaillen-fuer-verena-schott.html |publisher=Humboldt University of Berlin |access-date=21 December 2014 |language=de |date=19 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106005244/http://www.zeh.hu-berlin.de/infos/singleview/article/zwei-wm-medaillen-fuer-verena-schott.html |archive-date=6 November 2013 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}}</ref> who posted a world record time.<ref name=BBC>{{cite news |last1=Hope |first1=Nick |title=Paralympics 2012: Ellie Simmonds wins second gold of Games |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/19464525 |access-date=21 December 2014 |publisher=BBC |date=3 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309203315/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/disability-sport/19464525 |archive-date=9 March 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> At the 2013 World Championships she again came second in the 200 m medley, as well as winning bronze in the 100 m breaststroke.<ref name=IPC />
Schott was at the World Para Swimming Allianz Championships in 2019 in London. She competed in the 100m backstroke S6 and took gold beating the world record holder Song Lingling.<ref>{{Cite web |title=London 2019: Alice Tai's fourth gold ends Long unbeaten run |url=https://www.paralympic.org/news/london-2019-alice-tai-s-fourth-gold-ends-long-unbeaten-run |access-date=2022-11-14 |website=International Paralympic Committee |language=en}}</ref>
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== External links == * {{IPC profile|verena-schott|id2=868235}} * {{TDP profile|verena-schott}}
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