Johanna Welin

Johanna Welin (* June 24, 1984 in Pajala, Sweden ) is a German wheelchair basketball player. She currently plays in the German women's Wheelchair Basketball Bundesliga for the USC Munich. With the women's national team, she participated in the Summer Paralympics 2012 partly in London and won the gold medal there. For her performance, she was jointly awarded the team of German President Joachim Gauck with the Silver Laurel Leaf.

Life

Johanna Welin was born on June 24, 1984 in Pajala, near the border with Finland, in Sweden. She played soccer for the Töreboda IK and went in the winter intensive snowboard sport after. In a competition in January 2004 in Gothenburg she was injured badly and was paralyzed as a result of the hip. As a result, she started to wheelchair basketball, which she first played when GRBK Gothenburg in Sweden. For a German Studies, she spent two semesters to Innsbruck, where there was no separate women's wheelchair basketball team at that time. They therefore began to play for, first decide on second team of the USC Munich. There, she fell on the coach of the German wheelchair basketball team, who asked her to play according to their interest, for the German team. Welin then attended the German citizenship and won at the European Championships 2011 in Nazareth, Israel, the gold medal.

In June 2012, she was nominated for the Paralympic Summer Games in London, where the women's team after a final match against the Australian team for the first time in the history of the Paralympic Games, won the gold medal in the women's wheelchair basketball. Following the team received for their services was the team the Silver Laurel Leaf by President Joachim Gauck awarded. In February 2013, it was located in the Golden Book of the city of Munich.

She is currently studying medicine in Munich.