Heike Friedrich (wheelchair basketball)

Heike Friedrich is a 4.5 point wheelchair basketball player, who plays for the Mainhatten Skywheelers. She was a professional basketball player who played for TuS Lichterfeld, Wild Cats Aschaffenburg, TV Langen und TV Hofheim. She was with the Bundesliga club TV Langen for five years, and the Germany womens national basketball team for nine years, playing 204 international games. Since taking up wheelchair basketball in 2006, she has played with the German national team which won European titles in 2009 and 2011, and was runnerup in 2013. The team was also runnerup at the IWBF World Championship in Birmingham in 2010, and won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. President Joachim Gauck awarded the team Germanys highest sporting honour, the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt .

Heike Friedrich was born in Berlin onJune 1976. She was a professional basketball player who played for TuS Lichterfeld, Wild Cats Aschaffenburg, TV Langen und TV Hofheim. She was with the Bundesliga club TV Langen for five years, and the Germany womens national basketball team for nine years, playing 204 international games. She injured her right knee in a game in Saarlouis in 1995. After a series of Xrays, scans and MRIs, she had surgery on the knee at Martin Luther Hospital160 in Berlin. She returned to playing, but problems and complications occurred, and her cruciate ligaments tore. She had surgery eight more times. By 2006, her lower right calf muscles had become partly paralysed due to nerve damage.

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