Manuela Schär

Manuela Schär

Schär competing in the 2017 London Marathon
Personal information
Born	Manuela Schär (1984-12-05) 5 December 1984
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	46 kg (101 lb)
Sport
Disability	Spinal cord injury
Disability class	T54
Coached by	Claudio Perret
Medal record Women's paralympic athletics Representing Switzerland Paralympic Games 2020 Tokyo 400m T54 2020 Tokyo 800m T54 2024 Paris 800 m T54 2004 Athens 200 m T54 2020 Tokyo 5000 m T54 2020 Tokyo 1500 m T54 2020 Tokyo Marathon T54 2024 Paris 400 m T54 2004 Athens 100 m T54 2008 Beijing 200 m T54 World Championships 2013 Lyon Marathon T54 2023 Paris 800 m T54 2023 Paris 400 m T54 2013 Lyon 400 m T54 2013 Lyon 800 m T54 2013 Lyon 5000 m T54 2023 Paris 5000 m T54 2023 Paris 1500m T54 2011 Christchurch 200 m T54 2011 Christchurch 400 m T54 European Championships 2014 Swansea 400 m T54 2014 Swansea 800 m T54 2014 Swansea 1500 m T54

Schär near half way mark of 2019 Boston Marathon, which she won

Manuela Schär (born December 5, 1984) is a paralympic athlete from Switzerland, competing mainly in category T54 sprint events. In the T54 category she is a three-time gold medal winner at the Summer Paralympics, and a three-time gold medal winner at the World Para Athletics Championships. She has used a wheelchair since the age of 8, when a playground accident paralyzed her from the waist down.

Career

Schär competed in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. There she won a silver medal in the women's 200 meters (T54 event), bronze in the women's 100 meters (T54 event), and finished sixth in the women's 400 meters (T54 event). At the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China, she won bronze in the women's 200 meters (T54) event, finishing fourth in the 100 meters and sixth again in the women's 400 meters. She competed again in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where her best results were two fifth places.

At the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France, she won gold in the marathon (T54 event).

In 2017, she won the women's wheelchair category of the 121st Boston Marathon and the 37th London Marathon. In 2018, she won the women's wheelchair category of the 2018 Chicago Marathon and the 2018 TCS New York City Marathon. In 2019, she won all six World Marathon Majors (Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York).

As of March 2026, she had won many of the World Marathon Majors multiple times, including the Berlin Marathon seven times, the Boston Marathon and Tokyo Marathon four times each, the London Marathon and New York Marathon three times each and the Chicago Marathon once, in 2019.

At the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, competing in the T54 events, she won gold in the 400m and 800m, and silver in the 1500m, 5000m, and marathon.

Schär won gold in the 400m and 800m (T54 events) at the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships in Paris, France.[1]

The following year, also in Paris, she won her third Paralympics gold medal, competing in the T54 800m.[2]

External links

• Manuela Schär at the International Paralympic Committee
• Manuela Schär at the Swiss Paralympic Committee (in German and French)
• Official website (in German)