Marina Mohnen
Marina Mohnen
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| Nationality |
 Germany
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| Born | 31 October 1978 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 178 cm (70 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair basketball | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | 4.5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Women's team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | RSC Köln S. Stefano Sport |
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| Coached by | Holger Glinicki | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Paralympic finals | 2008 Paralympics, 2012 Paralympics, 2016 Paralympics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marina Mohnen (born 31 October 1978) is a 4.5 point wheelchair basketball player, who plays for RSC Köln 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 runner-up in 2013. It was also runner-up 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 Köhler presented it with Germany's highest sports award, the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (Silver Laurel Leaf). 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 on 31 October 1978. Mohnen majored in economics and works for the Bundesakademie für öffentliche Verwaltung (Federal Academy of Public Administration), a sports funding body, in Brühl. "Wenn das Nationalteam ruft," she says, "werde ich freigestellt." ("When the national team calls, I am available.")
Mohnen began playing basketball when she was eleven, but in 1999 she suffered a severe anterior cruciate ligament injury. She took up wheelchair basketball as a 4.5 point player, initially playing for her home town team in Bitburg, but she subsequently moved to Koblenz, then to Bonn, and then to Cologne, where she now lives again after a stint in Italy. As part of RSC Köln from 2004 to 2009, she played an important role in the rise of the team. She then moved to the Italian club S. Stefano Sport in Santo Stefano, playing in Italy from 2009 to 2011, after which she returned to RBC Köln.
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