Ursula Schwaller She was also the first woman to compete using a handbike, which required special permission for her to take part. Outside of sports, Schwaller works as an architect. Ursula Schwaller Ursula Schwaller (born 26 June 1976) is a Swiss para-cyclist, who won two bronze medals at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Ursula Schwaller was born on 26 June 1976. In 2002, she suffered an accident while mountain trekking causing her to suffer from paraplegia due to a spinal injury. She was already active in sports, but following the injury she decided to take up para-sports instead. For example, she took up
Ursula Merkin Ursula Merkin Ursula Merkin (1919–2006) was a German-born American philanthropist. She was born in Frankfurt, Germany to Isaac Breuer, a noted German Rabbi, as Ursula (Sara) Breuer. In 1933, at the age of fourteen, she left Germany with her family for Palestine. She remained there with her father, to whom she was very close, until his death in Jerusalem in 1946, at the age of 63. Shortly thereafter, she emigrated to the United States, where she found a teaching position at a Jewish girls' school in Paterson, New Jersey. In 1950 she met and married Hermann Merkin, a German-Jewish businessman,