Edina Müller

Edina Müller (born 28 June 1983) is a German 2.5 point wheelchair basketball player and KL1 canoeist.

As part of the German women's national wheelchair basketball team, she won bronze at the 2006 World Cup in Amsterdam, won three time European champions (in 2007, 2009, 2011), a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, and a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.

President Joachim Gauck awarded the team a second Silver Leaf after it won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.

On 24 May 2015, she won silver in the women's KL1 200 m race at the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Duisburg.

[7] Her American degree was accepted in Germany, and she qualified as a rehabilitation therapist at BG Trauma Hospital in Hamburg-Boberg.

She worked with paraplegic patients, helping them become wheelchair mobile, by strengthening the chest and upper arm muscles.

"[7] In September 2008, Müller participated in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, but Germany was beaten in the gold medal game by the team the United States, which contained a number of former teammates and opponents from the University of Illinois.

[2] They hoped for a rematch against the United States at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in London,[2] but instead faced the team that had beaten the Americans, the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team,[9] which included former Illinois teammates Shelley Chaplin and Bridie Kean.

[5] They defeated the Australians in front of a crowd of over 12,000 to win the gold medal,[4][9] They were awarded another Silver Laurel Leaf by President Joachim Gauck in November 2012,[10] and were again named Team of the Year for 2012.

In action at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris