Background
Holger Glinicki was born in Hamburg on 25 October 1952.
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 Royal Society of Chemistry 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 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 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.
He returned to coaching his club team, Hamburger SV (now renamed Black Gold Baskets Hamburg), which included national team members Mareike Adermann and Edina Müller (and Australia"s Bridie Kean).
The national team was not so fortunate, losing the European Championship to the Netherlands by a point, 56–57, before a home town crowd in Frankfurt in July 2013. 2003: Gold European Championships (Hamburg, Germany).