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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; 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. She competes in the S7, SM6 and SB5 classifications.
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). She had a son, Lean, in June 2011.
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. 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, who posted a world record time. At the 2013 World Championships she again came second in the 200 m medley, as well as winning bronze in the 100 m breaststroke.