Edina Müller
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Born | 28 June 1983 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Disability class | 2.5 (wheelchair basketball) KL1 (canoeing) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Women's team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | Illinois Fighting Illini | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Hamburger SV | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Paralympic finals | 2008 Summer Paralympics 2012 Summer Paralympics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Edina Müller (born 28 June 1983) is a German
Müller retired from wheelchair basketball after the
Biography
Edina Müller was born on 28 June 1983,[1] and raised in the Rhineland town of Brühl. In 2000, at the age of 16, she was playing volleyball, and felt pain in her back. A doctor straightened her back, but within two hours she lost feeling in her legs. She was rushed to hospital where a blood clot was discovered. Diagnosed with paraplegia, she spent the next four months in hospital. She had to repeat Year 10 at Max Ernst Gymnasium, but graduated in 2003. Although she began using a wheelchair, she longed to return to playing sport, and initially tried sitting volleyball. She then took up wheelchair tennis, winning the Hungarian Open in 2005, but ultimately switched to wheelchair basketball, playing for ASV Bonn. In 2005, she was invited to attend a German national team training camp by its coach, Holger Glinicki. The following year she made the national team and won bronze at the World Championships in Amsterdam.[2][3]
Müller's mentor and professor at the
Müller graduated from the University of Illinois in 2008 with a
In September 2008, Müller participated in the
Müller helped the national team defend their European Championship title with the national team in Stoke Mandeville, England in 2009.
Müller retired from wheelchair basketball after the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto, at which she won silver.[12] She then took up canoeing, training at the Hamburg Canoe Club. "From basketball", she said "I learned to always have the sight set for a big goal. If something doesn’t turn out how it should, it’s not the end of the world. But it always helps to have a goal set in front of you."[13] According to her coach, Jens Kröger, "It’s easy to motivate her. She’s fighting to reach a training target. She never gives up.”[13] Her hard work paid off. Not only did she earn national team selection, but on 24 May 2105 she won silver in the women's KL1 200 m race at the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Duisburg in a personal best time of 59.981 seconds, her first time below the one-minute mark.[14][15] On 19 May 2016 at the 2016 ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Duisburg, she went one better, winning gold despite capsizing her canoe that morning during warm up.[16][17]
Achievements
- 2006: Bronze World Championship (Amsterdam, Netherlands)[4]
- 2007: Gold National Championship (Warm Springs, United States)[4]
- 2007: Gold European Championship (Wetzlar, Germany)[18]
- 2008: Gold National Championship (Champaign, United States)[4][5]
- 2008: Silver Paralympics (Beijing, China)[8]
- 2009: Gold European Championship (Stoke Mandeville, Great Britain)[2]
- 2010: Silver World Championships (Birmingham, Great Britain)[19][20]
- 2011: Gold European Championships (Nazareth, Israel)[21]
- 2012: Gold Paralympic Games (London, England)[9]
- 2013: Silver European Championships (Frankfurt, Germany)[22]
- 2014: Silver at the World Championships (Toronto, Canada)[12]
- 2015: Silver at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup (Duisburg, Germany)[15]
- 2016: Gold at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup (Duisburg, Germany)[16][17]
Awards
- 2008: Team of the Year[8]
- 2008: Silver Laurel Leaf[4]
- 2009: Entry in the Golden Book of the city of Brühl[8]
- 2012: Team of the Year[11]
- 2012: Silver Laurel Leaf[10]
- 2013: Hamburg Sportswoman of the Year[23]
Notes
- ^ "Edina Mueller - Wheelchair Basketball - Paralympic Athlete - London 2012". Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 26 May 2013. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
- ^ a b c d e Joisten, Bernd (20 October 2010). "Edina Müller: "Ich bin ein Mensch, der nach vorn blickt"". General-Anzeiger (in German). Retrieved 5 February 2012.
- ^ Hoffmann, Elke (15 December 2008). "Vom gesunden Teenager zur Spitzensportlerin im Rollstuhl". Frauen Zimmer (in German). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
- ^ Bundesministerium für Gesundheit. Archived from the originalon 17 June 2013. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
- ^ a b c "Illinois Paralympians Shine" (PDF). College of AHS news. Spring 2009. pp. 6–7. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
- ^ "Chronology of Events in the Development of Wheelchair Basketball in Europe". International Wheelchair Basketball Federation. Archived from the original on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
- ^ a b "Botschaft mit goldenem Schimmer". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). 24 December 2012. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
- ^ a b c d e "Goldenes Buch: Palavern bei Sekt ist nicht ihr Ding". Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (in German). 4 February 2009. Retrieved 6 February 2012.
- ^ a b c "Germany claim women's crown". Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 7 September 2012. Archived from the original on 30 April 2013. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
- ^ a b "Verleihung des Silbernen Lorbeerblattes" (in German). Bundespräsidialamt. 7 November 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
- ^ a b "Rollstuhlbasketballerinnen sind Mannschaft des Jahres" (in German). HSV-Rollstuhlsport. 26 November 2012. Archived from the original on 27 June 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
- ^ a b "2014 WWWBC: Germany". Wheelchair Basketball Canada. Archived from the original on 2 February 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
- ^ a b "Edina Müller – from wheelchair basketball glory to para-canoe success?". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ "Edina Müller". 25 May 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ a b "IMAS Live Results - 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup Duisburg". Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ a b "Deutsche Kanuten holen Doppel-Gold". Sportschau (in German). 19 May 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
- ^ a b "Goldener Glanz unter dem Korb und im Kanu". Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). 19 May 2016. Archived from the original on 17 June 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
- ^ "Chronology of Events in the Development of Wheelchair Basketball in Europe". International Wheelchair Basketball Federation Europe. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
- ^ "Germany Women". British Wheelchair Basketball. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
- ^ "World Championships - Results". International Wheelchair Basketball Federation. Archived from the original on 9 July 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
- ^ "Nu Nguyen-Thi darf nicht mit: Holger Glinicki benennt Kader für die Paralympics". Rolling Planet (in German). 12 June 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
- ^ "Rollstuhlbasketball-EM: Deutsche Damen nach über einem Jahrzehnt entthront". Rolling Planet (in German). 6 July 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
- ^ "HSV Handball als Mannschaft des Jahres geehrt". Hamburger Abendblatt (in German). 17 February 2014. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
External links
- Edina Müller at the International Paralympic Committee
- Edina Müller at Team Deutschland Paralympics (in German)