Background
Annegret Brießmann was born in Ober-Beerbach on 28 July 1972.
basketball player athletics competitor
Annegret Brießmann was born in Ober-Beerbach on 28 July 1972.
She also played basketball with the local team, Bachelor of Science Einhausen, for many years.
President Joachim Gauck awarded the team Germany"s highest sporting honour, the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (Silver Laurel Leaf). She now lives in Einhausen. As a teenager, she played soccer for SKG Ober-Beerbach Fußball, and participated in track and field events with Turn- und Sportverein Eschollbrücken.
A skiing accident in Austria in 2005 resulted in a broken vertebra, rendering Brießmann a paraplegic.
She went back to track and field athletics, winning the German national championship in the shot put with a throw of 16.70 metres (548 ft). In athletics she had a Disability sport classification of T55.
In the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) world rankings her shot put throw of 6.10 metres (200 ft) ranked her fifth in the world. Her 16.7 metres (55 ft) in discus put her in eighth place.
And in the javelin with 12.31 metres (404 ft) she was ranked eleventh.
Einhausen named her their Sportswoman of the Year in 2009. However, T55 classification events were dropped from the track and field program for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Brießmann was introduced to the sport of wheelchair basketball while in rehabilitation
She was classified as a 1.0 point player, the highest level of disability.
She played in Darmstadt and Aschaffenburg, then joined the Mainhatten Skywheelers in Frankfurt in 2010. She began training with the national squad, and in July 2012 national coach Holger Glinicki nominated her for the national team for the London Paralympics.
In the Gold Medal match in London, the team faced the Australia women"s national wheelchair basketball team, who had defeated them 48–46 in Sydney just a few months before, in front of a capacity crowd of over 12,000 at the North Greenwich Arena. The German team had been undefeated up to that point, but had 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.
They were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by President Joachim Gauck in November 2012, and were named Team of the Year for 2012.
The German team lost the European Championship to the Netherlands before a home town crowd of 2,300 in Frankfurt in July 2013 by a point, 56–57. 2012: Gold at the Paralympic Games (London, England).