Martin Otto (wheelchair basketball)
Martin Otto (born October 8, 1962 in Bonn ) is a German wheelchair basketball trainer. After years of membership at ASV Bonn, he trained the first division club RBC Köln 99ers until April 2016 and took over the position of head coach of the German women's national team in February 2017.
biography
Martin Otto was born on October 8, 1962 in Bonn as the son of Werner and Silvia Otto into a basketball family. He began his basketball career in the pedestrian area as early as elementary school. From 1975 to 1995 he took part in numerous youth championships and later played for Galatasaray Cologne, Godesberger TV and Rhöndorfer TV in the 1st Bundesliga . During his time in the Bundeswehr, he made the leap into the B-squad of the Bundeswehr national team.
Martin Otto is a teacher with the subjects of sport and biology at the Hagerhof high school in Bad Honnef. With the female school teams, he has always been able to reach the national finals of “Youth trained for the Olympics” in Berlin over the past ten years, and was able to celebrate three German championships and participation in the 2013 school world championship in Cyprus (4th place). In addition, he trains the regional league women and WNBL (youth league ) in Rhöndorf.
Martin Otto has also been active in wheelchair basketball since 1987. Before he fully focused on his position as a coach, he went basketball both nationally and internationally and, in addition to four German cup wins and three German championships as a player-coach with ASV Bonn, also won the Andre Vergauwen Cup twice. In the jersey of the German national team he was allowed to decorate himself with silver and 2002 with bronze at the European championships and rolled for the German colors at the Paralympics 2000 in Sydney and 2004 in Athens. In 2008 he ended his active career as a player and moved from the field to the sideline, initially to ASV Bonn, with whom he won the Willi Brinkmann Cup in 2009. For the last five years he was responsible for the Bundesliga club RBC Köln 99ers. In the 2013/14 season he celebrated winning the Eurocup with the 99ers.
Since February 2017 he has been training the German women's national team together with assistant trainer Janet McLachlan .
Martin Otto is married and the father of two daughters who are also active in basketball.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Otto, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German wheelchair basketball trainer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |