Edina Müller

Edina Müller
Edina Müller
Personal information
Nationality Germany
Born (1983-06-28) 28 June 1983
Sport
CountryGermany
Sport
  • Wheelchair basketball
  • Paracanoeing
Disability class2.5 (wheelchair basketball)
KL1 (canoeing)
EventWomen's team
College teamIllinois Fighting Illini
ClubHamburger SV
Coached by
  • Martin Otto (wheelchair basketball)
  • Jens Kröger (canoeing)
Achievements and titles
Paralympic finals2008 Summer Paralympics
2012 Summer Paralympics
Medal record
Representing  Germany
Women's wheelchair basketball
Paralympic Games
2012 LondonTeam
2008 BeijingTeam
World Championships
2010 BirminghamTeam
2014 TorontoTeam
2006 AmsterdamTeam
Women's paracanoeing
Paralympic Games
2020 TokyoKL1
2016 Rio de JaneiroKL1
2024 ParisKL1
World Championships
2016 DuisburgKL1
2015 MilanKL1
2019 SzegedKL1
2021 CopenhagenKL1
2024 SzegedKL1
European Championships
2016 MoscowKL1
2022 MunichKL1
2015 RačiceKL1
2024 SzegedKL1
2017 PlovdivKL1
2021 PoznańKL1

Edina Müller (born 28 June 1983) is a German 2.5 point wheelchair basketball player and KL1 canoeist. She played for ASV Bonn in the German wheelchair basketball league, and for the national team. As part of the German women's national wheelchair basketball team, she won bronze at the 2006 World Cup in Amsterdam, won three time European champions (in 2007, 2009, 2011), 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 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. Müller was also a two-time U.S. champion (2006–2008) with her college team Illinois Fighting Illini at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and helped ASV Bonn win the European Cup (Willi Brinkmann Cup) in Valladolid, Spain in 2009. From 2011 to 2014 she played for Hamburger SV.

Müller retired from wheelchair basketball after the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto, at which she won silver, and took up canoeing. On 24 May 2015, she won silver in the women's KL1 200 m race at the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Duisburg. On 19 May 2016, she won gold in the event at the 2016 ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Duisburg.