Commitment
BEB promotes high-performance disabled sport: "Team BEB" has become a trademark for competitive sport for disabled people in Lower Saxony. This project, unique in Germany, brings together outstanding athletes from Lower Saxony from various sporting disciplines in a top sports team supported and promoted by BEB.
Team BEB: With its commitment on behalf of the Behinderten-Sportverband Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony Disabled Sports Association - BSN) BEB wishes to ensure that the athletes can train and compete under ideal conditions. At the Paralympics 2008 in Peking this approach has already proved to be very successful.
Alke Behrens, Maren Butterbrodt and Simone Kues won silver medals in wheelchair basketball in Peking and the middle-distance runner Max Bergmann achieved an excellent fifth place in the 5000 m race.
Biathlete Josef Giesen and skier Thomas Nolte from Team BEB will be starting at the Winter Paralympics 2010 in Vancouver. We wish them good luck and a good time during the competitions and the fringe events!
Sponsoring enables the development of professional structures
"With the help of the sponsors BEB Erdgas und Erdöl GmbH, Hannover Airport and hummel sport & leisure the BSN now also has the chance to introduce professional structures in competitive sport and to give athletes the chance to further enhance the quality of their training. Particularly due to the fact that there is hardly any difference between the performances of the world's best athletes, our top athletes are more dependent on support than ever. And we can assure them of this in Team BEB", Karl Finke, President of the BSN, acknowledges the cooperation with the sponsors.
The world-class high jumper Reinhold Bötzel from Hannover is just as enthusiastic:"It is fantastic that the sponsors, above all BEB, make it possible for us to prepare ourselves professionally. Our performances are certainly worth being promoted. If we can now manage to establish our top team in the long term, then not only will competitive sport for disabled persons profit, but disabled sport as a whole will attract public attention. And this is all to the good of every sports club and the young sportsmen."
The Behinderten-Sportverband Niedersachsen
The Behinderten-Sportverband Niedersachsen e.V. (BSN) has been committed to rehabilitation sport, popular sport and competitive sport for the last 50 years. 529 sports clubs and departments with more than 40,000 members are organized in the association. In keeping with the slogan "Games, sport and movement for everyone" they offer physical training with a sports teacher and medical assistance - people with disabilities of all kinds or chronic illnesses find a wide range of sporting activities tailored to their personal situation.
