Johanna Welin

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Welin at a game against the Japanese women's national team.

Johanna Welin (born June 24, 1984 in Pajala , Sweden ) is a German wheelchair basketball player . She currently plays in the 2nd South Wheelchair Basketball Bundesliga for the Munich Iguanas. With the women's national team, she took part in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London , where she won the gold medal. For her achievements, she and the team of Federal President Joachim Gauck were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf .

Life

Johanna Welin was born on June 24, 1984 in Pajala, near the border with Finland, in Sweden. She played soccer for Töreboda IK and did snowboarding intensively in winter. In a competition in Gothenburg in January 2004 , she was seriously injured and as a result remained paralyzed from the waist down. As a result, she started with wheelchair basketball, which she first played at GRBK Göteborg in Sweden. To study German, she went to Innsbruck for two semesters , where there was no wheelchair basketball team at the time. She therefore began to play for the, initially second, team of USC Munich. There she was noticed by the national coach of the German wheelchair basketball team, who asked her about her interest in playing for the German team. Welin then took on German citizenship and won the gold medal at the 2011 European Championships in Nazareth , Israel .

In June 2012 she was nominated for the Summer Paralympics in London, where the women's team won the gold medal in women's wheelchair basketball for the first time in Paralympic history after a final match against the national team of Australia. Afterwards, the team received the silver laurel leaf from Federal President Joachim Gauck for their achievements. In February 2013, she signed the Golden Book of the City of Munich.

She is currently studying medicine in Munich.

Web links

Commons : Johanna Welin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Muenchen.de: Munich Paralympics winners sign the Golden Book. ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) February 26, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b Rolling Planet: Wheelchair basketball player Johanna Welin. From the Arctic Circle to the Paralympic Dream. ( Memento of April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) July 28, 2012. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
  3. ↑ a b c Sebastian Kayser: With Swedish bites for gold. Bild.de, September 6, 2012. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b Rolling Planet: Nu Nguyen-Thi is not allowed with. Holger Glinicki names squad for the Paralympics. June 12, 2012. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
  5. ↑ Bundespraesident.de: Award of the silver laurel leaf. November 7, 2012. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Welin, Johanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wheelchair basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Pajala , Sweden