Birgit Meitner

Birgit Meitner (born September 14, 1977 ) is a German disabled athlete .

Life

Birgit Meitner is a wheelchair user due to an incomplete paraplegic syndrome .

Despite this handicap, she chose basketball as her sport . She became German champion and national player with her club . In this capacity, she participated in a total of four Paralympic Games in part

At the 2008 Paralympic Summer Games, she lost to the German Olympic basketball team in the final of the USA team and was a silver medalist. The German team also lost the game of revenge for the World Cup against the USA in 2010 and thus became runner-up.

For winning the silver medal in 2008, its Federal President Horst Köhler awarded the silver laurel leaf on November 20, 2008 .

Individual evidence

^ German Disabled Sports Association Pages = 28 (Ed.): Paralympics . Beijing 2008 team magazine. ( dbs-npc.de [PDF; 5.5 MB ; accessed on July 11, 2018]).
↑ Unimedia Business: Birgit Meitner receives Paralympic silver: ... she has an incomplete paraplegic syndrome and is dependent on a wheelchair because of her legs.
↑ Augsburger Allgemeine from January 16, 2009: Birgit Meitner a sporting role model: ... Günther Wirth ... recognized ... the 4-time Paralympic participant and national player as the ideal role model of a top athlete ...
↑ Augsburger Allgemeine from July 16, 2010: ... a wheelchair basketball player from Dillingen is in the final of the wheelchair basketball world championship this Saturday ... against the USA ... remake of the 2008 final ...
↑ Press release of the Federal President's Office: Greetings from the Federal President on the award of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2008 ...

personal data
SURNAME	Meitner, Birgit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German disabled athlete
DATE OF BIRTH	September 14, 1977

[1] German Disabled Sports Association Pages = 28 (Ed.): Paralympics . Beijing 2008 team magazine. ( dbs-npc.de [PDF; 5.5 MB ; accessed on July 11, 2018]).

[2] Unimedia Business: Birgit Meitner receives Paralympic silver: ... she has an incomplete paraplegic syndrome and is dependent on a wheelchair because of her legs.

[3] Augsburger Allgemeine from January 16, 2009: Birgit Meitner a sporting role model: ... Günther Wirth ... recognized ... the 4-time Paralympic participant and national player as the ideal role model of a top athlete ...

[4] Augsburger Allgemeine from July 16, 2010: ... a wheelchair basketball player from Dillingen is in the final of the wheelchair basketball world championship this Saturday ... against the USA ... remake of the 2008 final ...

[5] Press release of the Federal President's Office: Greetings from the Federal President on the award of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2008 ...