Edina Mueller
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Edina Müller (born June 28, 1983 in Brühl ) is a German wheelchair basketball player and paracanutist . She is a Paralympic champion in wheelchair basketball and became world champion in single kayak after changing her sport .
Life
Growing up in Brühl in the Rhineland, Müller graduated from the Max-Ernst-Gymnasium in 2003 . She has been paraplegic since 2000. Müller started her wheelchair basketball career in 2003. After a few successful attempts at wheelchair tennis (1st place Hungarian Open 2005), the former volleyball player (BTV Brühl) decided to play team sports and concentrated on basketball . In 2004 she started her diploma studies and competed in the regional league for ASV Bonn. With a lot of gaming experience, including a double license with TG Neuss and RSC Cologne (now RBC Cologne 99ers ), she made rapid progress and played her first Bundesliga season at ASV Bonn in 2005/06. In that year she was invited to a course for the first time by national coach Holger Glinicki. The following year she made it to the national team and won bronze at the World Championships in Amsterdam.
The successful Canadian trainer Michael Frogley (coach of the Canadian men's national team, coach Fighting Illinois Wheelchair Basketball (UIUC)) became aware of her and brought her to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006, where she worked for the women's college team Fighting Illinois Played wheelchair basketball. In both years she won the National Championship with the team. During the semester break, she traveled to tournaments and preparatory camps with the women's national team. In 2007 the German women became European champions in their own country (Wetzlar).
Müller graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology in 2008 and moved back to Germany.
In September 2008 she took part in the Paralympics in Beijing and was only beaten there by her former teammates and opponents from the USA. She won Paralympic silver. Following the Paralympics , she and the national team were voted "Team of the Year" and received the silver laurel leaf from Federal President Horst Köhler .
In 2009 she defended her European Championship title with the national team in Stoke Mandeville, England and in 2009 she won the European Cup in Valladolid, Spain (Willi Brinkmann Cup) with ASV Bonn . In 2010 she became vice world champion and again European champion in 2011.
At the Paralympics 2012 , Müller won the gold medal with the German team. With Hamburger SV , for whom she has played since 2011, she won the German championship in 2013.
In 2014 she switched to parakanu sport and qualified directly for the German national parakanu team in the national qualifications in April 2015. In her first international race at the European Championships in Račice , she won the silver medal in a single kayak. In 2016 she became world and European champion in her class.
successes
- 2006: Bronze World Championship wheelchair basketball (Amsterdam, NED)
- 2007: Gold National Championship wheelchair basketball (Warm Springs, USA)
- 2007: Gold European Championships in wheelchair basketball (Wetzlar, GER)
- 2008: Gold National Championship wheelchair basketball (Champaign, USA)
- 2008: Silver Paralympics Wheelchair Basketball (Beijing, CHINA)
- 2009: Gold European Championship Wheelchair Basketball (Stoke Mandeville, GBR)
- 2010: Silver World Championship Wheelchair Basketball (Birmingham, GBR)
- 2011: Gold European Championships in wheelchair basketball (Nazaret, ISR)
- 2012: Gold Paralympics Wheelchair Basketball (London, GBR)
- 2015: Silver European Parakanu Championship (Račice, CZE)
- 2015: Silver World Championship Parakanu (Milan, IT) over 200 meters.
- 2016: Gold World Championship Parakanu (Duisburg, DE) at over 200 meters in class KL1
- 2016: Gold European Championship Parakanu (Moscow, RU) over 200 meters in class KL1
- 2016: Silver Paralympics Parakanu (Rio de Janeiro, BRA) in class KL1
Awards
- 2008: Team of the year in disabled sports
- 2008: Silver bay leaf
- 2009: Entry in the golden book of the city of Brühl
- 2009: Sponsorship award Sportstiftung NRW
- 2012: Hamburg's sportswoman of the year
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Hamburger SV is German women's champion 2013 , wheelchair basketball department in the German Wheelchair Sports Association April 23, 2013.
- ↑ Results of canoeing over 200 meters women (PDF, 104 kB) at the Canoe Sprint World Championships 2015 on canoe2015.microplustiming.com
- ↑ Results of canoeing over 200 meters women at the 2016 Summer Paralympics on rio2016.com
- ↑ Edina Müller is Hamburg's Sportswoman of the Year 2012 ( Memento from March 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) , Hamburger SV February 26, 2013.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, Edina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German wheelchair basketball player and paracanutist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bruehl |