Holger Glinicki

Holger Glinicki

Holger Glinicki at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto, June 2014
Personal information
Nationality	Germany
Born	(1952-10-25) 25 October 1952 (age 64)
Sport
Country	Germany
Sport	Wheelchair basketball
Event(s)	Women's team
Club	Hamburger SV BG Baskets Hamburg
Team	Germany national women's wheelchair basketball team
Achievements and titles
Paralympic finals	2008 Summer Paralympics 2012 Summer Paralympics 2016 Summer Paralympics
Medal record Wheelchair basketball Paralympic Games 2012 London Women's Wheelchair basketball 2008 Beijing Women's Wheelchair basketball 2016 Rio de Janeiro Women's Wheelchair basketball World Championship 2010 Birmingham Women's Wheelchair basketball 2014 Toronto, Canada Women's wheelchair basketball 2006 Amsterdam Women's Wheelchair basketball

Holger Glinicki (born 25 October 1952) is a German wheelchair basketball coach, who coached Hamburger SV. He was assistant coach of the German women's national team from 2003 to 2005. He has been coach of the team since 2006, during which time it has won five European championships, a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing and a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.

Holger Glinicki was born in Hamburg on 25 October 1952. He was paralysed following a motorcycle accident in 1972 that broke his fourth thoracic vertebra. He became involved in disability sports, playing wheelchair basketball for RSC Hamburg, who were the German national champions in 1983, and played a total of 123 international games. He became assistant coach of the German women's national wheelchair basketball team in 2003, and then coach in 2006. The team won five consecutive European championships, in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2011, and a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing.

The German team started off slow in its games against the United States and China at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, winning these games by slim six-point margins. Marina Mohnen thought that they played their best basketball only in the final minutes of a game. They defeated the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics by 44–58 in front of a crowd of over 12,000 at the North Greenwich Arena to win the gold medal. It was the first gold medal that Germany had won in women's wheelchair basketball at the Paralympics since 1984. They were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by President Joachim Gauck in November 2012, and were named Team of the Year for 2012. Glinicki celebrated by plunging off Canary Wharf into London's River Thames. He was named Hamburg's coach of the year for 2012.