Marina Mohnen

Marina Mohnen is a 4.5 point wheelchair basketball player, who plays for RSC Kln in Germany, and previously played for S. Stefano Sport in Italy. She also played with the German national team that won the European title in 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2011 and was runnerup in 2013. It was also runnerup at the IWBF World Championship in Birmingham in 2010. She won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, and a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. The team was voted 2008 Team of the Year in disabled sports, and President Horst Khler presented it with Germanys highest sports award, the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt . President Joachim Gauck awarded the team a second Silver Leaf after it won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.

Marina Mohnen was born in Bitburg onOctober 1978. Mohnen majored in economics and works for the Bundesakademie fr ffentliche Verwaltung160 , a sports funding body, in Brhl. Wenn das Nationalteam ruft, she says, werde ich freigestellt.

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