Background
Maya Lindholm was born in Hamburg on 20 December 1990.
Maya Lindholm was born in Hamburg on 20 December 1990.
President Joachim Gauck awarded the team Germany"s highest sporting honour, the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (Silver Laurel Leaf). In 2004, she awoke one morning with severe back pain, and within hours she could no longer move her legs. Doctors diagnosed spinal cord inflammation.
She is studying to be an occupational therapist at the Black Gold Trauma Hospital in Hamburg Boberg.
She began playing wheelchair basketball for fun at the hospital in 2005. In 2009, she was selected as part of the national team
Classified as a 2.5 point player, Lindholm plays power forward. As part of the team"s preparation, they toured the United States and Australia.
The German team went through the group stage undefeated, but started off slow in its games against the United States and China, winning these games by six-point margins, and seemed to play its best basketball only in the final minutes of a game.
In the Gold Medal match in London, the team faced the Australia women"s national wheelchair basketball team, which had defeated them 48–46 in Sydney just a few months before. The German national team was not so fortunate, losing the final of the European Championship to the Netherlands before a home town crowd in Frankfurt.
2010: German Women"s National League champion (Hamburg SV) 2010: Silver at the IWBF World Championships (Birmingham, Great Britain) 2011: Gold at the European Wheelchair Basketball Championships (Nazareth, Israel) 2012: Gold at the Paralympic Games (London, England) 2013: German Women"s National League champion (Hamburg SV) 2013: Silver at the European Championships (Frankfurt, Germany) 2014: Silver at the World Championships (Toronto, Canada) 2015: Gold at the European Championships (Worcester, England) 2012: Team of the Year 2012: Silver Laurel Leaf.
They were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by President Joachim Gauck in November 2012, They were also named Team of the Year in Disability Sports for 2012, an annual award voted for by 3,000 members of the Association of German Sports Journalists.
