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On 12 November, the International Paralympic Committee announced the death of Dr Gertrude Krombholz and recalled her contribution to wheelchair dance. Her work in the discipline began in 1973, while she was choreographing an event for the Bavarian State Sports Association. Two years later she presented wheelchair dance to an international audience at the World Gymnaestrada in Berlin.
From 1989 to 2002, Krombholz chaired the IPC Wheelchair Dance Sport Committee. During that period she helped develop competition rules and classification systems, brought in partners from different countries and supported meetings between them. According to the IPC, her work helped the sport gain recognition from the committee in the late 1990s.
Krombholz taught at the Technical University of Munich for nearly four decades. Alongside her work on competitions, she helped develop training programmes for coaches and instructors and contributed to instructional books and films. The IPC awarded her the Paralympic Order for her contribution to the sport.
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