Annegret Brießmann

Annegret Brießmann

Annegret Brießmann in Sydney, July 2012
Personal information
Nationality	Germany
Born	(1972-07-28) 28 July 1972 (age 45) Ober-Beerbach, Germany
Height	184 cm (72 in)
Sport
Country	Germany
Sport	Wheelchair basketball
Disability class	1.0
Event(s)	Women's team
Club	Mainhatten Skywheelers
Coached by	Holger Glinicki
Achievements and titles
Paralympic finals	2012 Paralympics, 2016 Paralympics
Medal record Wheelchair basketball Paralympic Games 2012 London Women's Wheelchair basketball 2016 Rio de Janeiro Women's Wheelchair basketball IWBF World Championship 2010 Birmingham, Great Britain Women's wheelchair basketball 2014 Toronto, Canada Women's wheelchair basketball

Annegret Brießmann (born 28 July 1972) is a 1.0 point wheelchair basketball player, who plays for the Frankfurt Mainhatten Skywheelers (). She has also played with the German national team which won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. President Joachim Gauck awarded the team Germany's highest sporting honour, the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (Silver Laurel Leaf).

Annegret Brießmann was born in Ober-Beerbach () on 28 July 1972. She now lives in Einhausen. As a teenager, she played soccer for SKG Ober-Beerbach Fußball, and participated in track and field events with TSV Eschollbrücken. She also played basketball with the local team, BSC Einhausen, for many years.

A skiing accident in Austria in 2005 resulted in a broken vertebra, rendering Brießmann a paraplegic. She went back to track and field athletics, winning the German national championship in the shot put with a throw of 16.70 metres (54.8 ft). In athletics she had a Disability sport classification of T55. In the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) world rankings her shot put throw of 6.10 metres (20.0 ft) ranked her fifth in the world; her 16.7 metres (55 ft) in discus put her in eighth place; and in the javelin with 12.31 metres (40.4 ft) she was ranked eleventh. Einhausen named her their Sportswoman of the Year in 2009. However, T55 classification events were dropped from the track and field program for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.