Maya Lindholm Explained

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Maya Lindholm
Nationality: Germany
Birth Date:20 December 1990
Country:Germany
Sport:Wheelchair basketball
Event:Women's team
Disability Class:2.5
Position:Power forward
Team:Hamburger SV
BG Baskets Hamburg
Coach:Holger Glinicki
Paralympics:2012 Paralympics, 2016 Paralympics

Maya Lindholm (born 20 December 1990) is a 2.5 point wheelchair basketball player, who played with the German national team that won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. It also won a European title in 2011 and was runner-up in 2013. President Joachim Gauck awarded the team Germany's highest sporting honour, the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (Silver Laurel Leaf).

Biography

Maya Lindholm was born in Hamburg on 20 December 1990.[1] [2] In 2004, she awoke one morning with severe back pain, and within hours she could no longer move her legs. Doctors diagnosed spinal cord inflammation.[3] [4] She is studying to be an occupational therapist at the BG Trauma Hospital in Hamburg Boberg. She began playing wheelchair basketball for fun at the hospital in 2005. In 2009, she was selected as part of the national team.[5]

Classified as a 2.5 point player, Lindholm plays power forward.[6] She was part of the team that won the European Championships in Nazareth, Israel, in 2011, thereby qualifying for the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in London. As part of the team's preparation, they toured the United States and Australia.[5] The German team went through the group stage undefeated, but started off slow in its games against the United States and China, winning these games by six-point margins, and seemed to play its best basketball only in the final minutes of a game.[7]

In the Gold Medal match in London, the team faced the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, which had defeated them 48–46 in Sydney just a few months before.[8] In front of a crowd of over 12,985 at the North Greenwich Arena, they defeated the Australians 58–44 to win the gold medal,[9] the first that Germany had won in women's wheelchair basketball since 1984. They were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by President Joachim Gauck in November 2012, They were also named Team of the Year in Disability Sports for 2012, an annual award voted for by 3,000 members of the Association of German Sports Journalists.[10]

Lindholm's local team, Hamburger SV, which also included national teammates Mareike Adermann and Edina Müller (and Australia's Bridie Kean) won the women's national championship for the eighth time in 2013.[11] Lindholm was also part of the Hamburger SV team that had previously won it in 2010.[12]

The German national team was not so fortunate, losing the final of the European Championship to the Netherlands before a home town crowd in Frankfurt.[13] It claimed silver at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and beat the Netherlands in the 2015 European Championships, to claim its tenth European title. At the 2016 Paralympic Games, it won silver after losing the final to the United States.

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Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20130526212910/http://www.london2012.com/paralympics/athlete/lindholm-maya-5504030/ . Maya Lindholm . Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games . 26 May 2013 . 30 March 2014 .
  2. Web site: #11 - Maya Lindholm . German . BG Baskets Hamburg . 31 March 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140427140941/http://www.bgbasketshamburg.de/team/11-maya-lindholm.html . 27 April 2014 . dmy-all .
  3. News: Rollstuhlbasketball: "Hebt Euch das Mitleid für unsere Gegner auf!" . German . 30 March 2014 . . 31 August 2012 . Franziska . Ringleben .
  4. Web site: Interview mit Rollstuhl-Basketball Nationalspielerin Maya Lindholm . German . 12 April 2012 . BUK Hamburg . Maria . Surzukova . 27 April 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140427171534/http://www.buk-hamburg.de/466-0-Interview-Maya-Lindholm.html?goback=15 . 27 April 2014 .
  5. News: Rollstuhl-Basketball Nationalspielerin Maya Lindholm im Interview . Behindertensport News . 5 April 2012 . 30 March 2014 .
  6. Web site: BG Baskets Hamburg . Rollstuhlbasketball Bundesliga . 27 April 2014 .
  7. Web site: No. 22: Germany bucket first gold since 1984 . 10 December 2012 . Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games . 3 March 2013 .
  8. Web site: Victory for Rollers and Gliders as London Awaits . 21 July 2012 . Mannion . Tim . 17 February 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130428022623/http://www.london2012.paralympic.org.au/news/victory-rollers-and-gliders-london-awaits . 28 April 2013 .
  9. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20130430004717/http://www.london2012.com/paralympics/news/articles/germany-claim-women-crown.html . 30 April 2013 . Germany claim women's crown . 7 September 2012 . Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games . 6 February 2013.
  10. Web site: Wissenswertes zur Wahl Sportler des Jahres . ISK . German . 28 April 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140107142112/http://www.sportler-des-jahres.de/2-wahl/ . 7 January 2014 . dmy-all .
  11. Web site: Hamburger SV ist Deutscher Damenmeister 2013 . German . 30 March 2014 . DRS Fachbereich Rollstuhlbasketball . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140407062055/http://www.drs-rollstuhlbasketball.de/index.php?id=newsartikel&tx_ttnews[tt_news& . 7 April 2014 . dmy-all .
  12. Web site: HSV.de - Hamburgs Sportler des Jahres gesucht . Hamburger Sport-Verein . German . 28 April 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110119042653/http://www.hsv.de/verein/meldungen/sport-im-hsv/januar-11/hamburgs-sportler-des-jahres-gesucht . 19 January 2011 . dmy-all .
  13. News: Rollstuhlbasketball-EM: Deutsche Damen nach über einem Jahrzehnt entthront . Rolling Planet . 29 March 2014 . 6 July 2013 . German .
  14. Web site: Deutsche Meister und Pokalsieger . DRS Fachbereich Rollstuhlbasketball . German . 28 April 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140302025147/http://www.drs-rollstuhlbasketball.de/index.php?id=201 . 2 March 2014 . dmy-all .
  15. Web site: Germany Women . British Wheelchair Basketball . 12 April 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924021512/http://www.gbwba.org.uk/gbwba/index.cfm/wwbc2010/teams/womens-teams/germany/ . 24 September 2015 . dead .
  16. Web site: World Championships - Results . . 12 April 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140709073803/http://www.iwbf.org/_OLD_JULY_2013/index.php/world-events/world-championships . 9 July 2014 .
  17. News: Rolling Planet . Nu Nguyen-Thi darf nicht mit: Holger Glinicki benennt Kader für die Paralympics . German . 12 June 2012 . 17 February 2012.
  18. Web site: 2014 WWWBC: Germany . Wheelchair Basketball Canada . 28 June 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150202175151/http://2014wheelchairbasketball.com/teams/germany-2 . 2 February 2015 .
  19. Web site: Germany earn 10th women's European Wheelchair Basketball Championship title as hosts Britain win men's gold . Inside the Games . 9 September 2015 .
  20. Web site: USA clinch women's basketball gold . 16 September 2016 . International Paralympic Committee . 17 September 2016 .
  21. Web site: Paralympic - Wheelchair Basketball Women Germany . Rio 2016 . 17 September 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160923001746/https://www.rio2016.com/en/paralympics/team/germany-wheelchair-basketball-women . 23 September 2016 .
  22. Web site: Rollstuhlbasketballerinnen sind Mannschaft des Jahres . German . HSV-Rollstuhlsport . 26 November 2012 . 27 June 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150627173402/http://www.hsv.de/verein/meldungen/sport-im-hsv/november-2012/rollstuhlbasketballerinnen-sind-mannschaft-des-jahres/ . 27 June 2015 .
  23. Web site: Verleihung des Silbernen Lorbeerblattes . German . 7 November 2012 . Bundespräsidialamt . 6 February 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181119224654/https://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Berichte/DE/Joachim-Gauck/2012/11/121107-Silbernes-Lorbeerblatt.html . 19 November 2018 . dead .

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