MUELLER Edina

Date of Birth: 28 Jun 1983

Age: 38

Gender: Female

Sport Class: KL1

Place of birth: BERGISCH GLADBACH

Birth Country:

Germany

Place of residence : HAMBURG

Residence Country:

Germany

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Canoe Sprint	Women's Kayak Single 200m - KL1	1

Records

Best Time	Event	Mark	Date	Location
PB	Women's Kayak Single 200m - KL1 Final A	53.958	4 September, 2021	Tokyo (JPN)

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Sea Forest Waterway	Women's Kayak Single 200m - KL1 Heat 1 #9	Finished
	Sea Forest Waterway	Women's Kayak Single 200m - KL1 Final A #43	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

CANOE SPRINT

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
Paralympic Games
2	Kayak Single 200m - KL1	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	58.874
World Championships
1	Kayak Single 200m - KL1	2016	Duisburg, GER	56.846
2	Kayak Single 200m - KL1	2019	Szeged, HUN	56.97
2	Kayak Single 200m - KL1	2015	Milan, ITA	57.513
5	Kayak Single 200m - KL1	2017	Racice, CZE	59.943
7	Va'a Single 200m - VL2	2019	Szeged, HUN	1:08.27
European Championships
3	Kayak Single 200m - KL1	2021	Duisburg, GER	1:01.116
3	Kayak Single 200m - KL1	2017	Plovdiv, BUL	1:01.908
4	Kayak Single 200m - KL1	2018	Belgrade, SRB	59.241
4	Va'a Single 200m - VL2	2018	Belgrade, SRB	1:08.758

WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Paralympic Games
1	Women	2012	London, GBR
2	Women	2008	Beijing, CHN
World Championships
2	Women	2014	Toronto, ON, CAN
2	Women	2010	Birmingham, GBR
3	Women	2006	Amsterdam, NED

Scuba diving, travelling. (Athlete, 21 Aug 2021)

Occupation:

Physical Therapist

Human Movement Studies - University of Illinois [UIUC], Urbana, IL, USA

Partner Nikolaus Classen, son Liam [2019]

Languages spoken:

English, German

Hamburger Kanu Club [Germany]

Andre Brendel [national]; Arne Bandholz [personal]

Other sports:

She represented Germany in wheelchair basketball at the Paralympic Games in 2008 and 2012, winning silver in 2008 and gold in 2012. Shortly after her diagnosis she competed in wheelchair tennis and won the 2005 Hungarian Open. (SportsDeskOnline, 23 Aug 2021; Athlete, 21 Aug 2021)

She broke her leg in 2020 and was out of action for three months. (Athlete, 21 Aug 2021)

In early 2017 she was sidelined for two months due to a flu virus. (kanu.de, 03 Jul 2017)

She took up Para canoe in 2014 in Hamburg, Germany. (Athlete, 21 Aug 2021)

Having previously competed in wheelchair basketball, a friend encouraged her to try Para canoe. "Para canoe is very integrative, a bit more even than wheelchair basketball. You get in the same boat as the other canoeists during training and you just go. As soon as you are in the boat there is no difference." (paralympic.org, 06 Apr 2015)

To win a medal at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (Athlete, 21 Aug 2021)

Winning gold in wheelchair basketball at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, claiming silver in canoe sprint at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, and winning silver at the 2019 World Championships in Szeged, Hungary, seven months after becoming a mother. (Athlete, 21 Aug 2021)

German sprint paddler Birgit Fischer. (Athlete, 21 Aug 2021)

Her mother. (Athlete, 21 Aug 2021)

Philosophy:

"There are no limits even in wheelchairs." (netzathleten.de, 22 Aug 2019)

In 2020 she was named in the Team of the Decade by the German National Paralympic Committee. (kanu.de, 01 Dec 2020)

She has been presented with the Silver Laurel Leaf, the highest national award for excellence in German sports three times. (archive.org, 17 Jun 2013; bundespraesident.de, 07 Nov 2012; Facebook page, 23 Feb 2020)

She was named the 2010 German International Wheelchair Basketball Athlete of the Year. (macromedia-fachhochschule.de, 15 Nov 2011)

General Interest

Classification
KL1, VL2 (canoeicf.com, 01 Jun 2021)

Type of Impairment
Spinal Cord Injuries (tagesspiegel.de, 14 Sep 2016)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (tagesspiegel.de, 14 Sep 2016)

Impairment Details
At age 16 she was playing high school volleyball and felt pain in her back. Later that day she lost feeling in her legs. Doctors found a blood clot, and she spent four months in hospital. (macromedia-fachhochschule.de, 15 Nov 2011; general-anzeiger-bonn.de, 20 Oct 2010)

General
MOTHERHOOD
She gave birth to her son Liam in January 2019 and returned to training seven weeks later. "I had a good pregnancy, was fit and was able to train for a long time. I gained seven kilos during pregnancy. They were virtually gone after the birth. So I didn't start from scratch. Certainly I had some good circumstances. I went [back to training] with great ease. I suddenly had something that was more important than sport." Liam regularly attends her training sessions and competitions, which she says he enjoys. "I always have the little one with me. He takes on the situation very well and makes it really easy for me to continue competitive sports. Of course there are also days when I am tired or he is not in a good mood. Then it gets more strenuous, but for the most part it goes very well. If a training session fails because of the little one, it's not that bad for me. In the training sessions that I do then, I'm fully focused. It is generally a challenge because as an athlete you have to adapt to the needs of the child. You may just have to organise and work a little bit more in a wheelchair, then everything works very well." (netzathleten.de, 22 Aug 2019; faz.net, 11 May 2020; ndr.de, 26 Dec 2020)

FURTHER EDUCATION
She has also studied rehabilitation pedagogy at the University of Cologne in Germany. (Athlete, 21 Aug 2021; LinkedIn profile, 01 Sep 2019)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
PB:: Paralympic Best Time

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