Simone Kues
Personal information
Born (1976-11-08) 8 November 1976 (age 47)
Sport
Country Germany
SportWheelchair basketball
Disability class1.5
EventWomen's team
Achievements and titles
Paralympic finals2008 Paralympics, 2016 Paralympics
Medal record
Wheelchair basketball
Paralympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2008 Beijing Women's Wheelchair basketball
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Women's Wheelchair basketball
IWBF World Championship
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Amsterdam, Netherlands Women's wheelchair basketball
Silver medal – second place 2010 Birmingham, Great Britain Women's wheelchair basketball
Silver medal – second place 2014 Toronto, Canada Women's wheelchair basketball

Simone Kues (born 8 November 1976) is a German 1.0 point national wheelchair basketball player who plays in the wheelchair basketball league for Hamburg SV. She joined the national team, and participated in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, at which the German team came fourth. She won bronze at the World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Amsterdam in 2006. Her team were won the European championship in 2005, 2007 and 2009. She won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. The women's national team were voted Team of the Year in disabled sports in 2008, and President Horst Köhler awarded them the Silver Laurel Leaf, Germany's highest German sports award.

Biography

Kues was born in Einbeck in Lower Saxony on 8 November 1976. She matriculated from the Paul-Gerhardt-Schule Dassel [de] in 1996. That same year she had a riding accident in Ireland, which resulted in paralysis. After rehab, she began studying psychology in Göttingen in 1998, and then devoted herself to her sport career. She graduated in 2007,[1] and now works as a psychologist at the BG Trauma Hospital Hamburg [de]'s paraplegic centre.[2]

Kues first played wheelchair basketball at the rehab clinic. She went on to play for ASC Göttingen, then with RBV Lüneburg, and finally with SV Hamburg.[2] She joined the national team, and participated in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, at which the German team came fourth.[3] She won bronze at the World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Amsterdam in 2006. Her team won the European championship in 2005, 2007 and 2009, and a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing.[2] The women's national team were voted Team of the Year in disabled sports in 2008, and President Horst Köhler awarded them the Silver Laurel Leaf, Germany's highest German sports award.[4]

In June 2014, Kues rejoined the senior women's team for the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto, Canada. The German team won silver after being defeated by Canada in the final.[5][6] The German team beat the Netherlands in the 2015 European Championships, to claim its tenth European title.[7] At the 2016 Paralympic Games, it won silver after losing the final to the United States.[8]

Achievements

Awards

Notes

  1. ^ Eisenhuth, Jörg (February 2011). "Ludwig-Guttmann-Preisträgerin 2010". Deutschsprachige Medizinische Gesellschaft für Paraplegie (in German). Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Athlete Profile – Simone Kues". International Paralympic Committee, 30 October 2009.
  3. ^ "Athlete Search Results – Simone Kues". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  4. ^ a b "Bundespräsident Köhler ehrt 132 Sportler mit dem Silbernen Lorbeerblatt" (in German). Der Deutsche Olympische Sportbund. 20 November 2008. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  5. ^ a b "2014 WWWBC: Germany". Wheelchair Basketball Canada. Archived from the original on 2 February 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  6. ^ a b Joneck, Andreas. "Deutscher WM-Traum platzt zum zweiten Mal" (in German). Team Germany. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
  7. ^ a b "Germany earn 10th women's European Wheelchair Basketball Championship title as hosts Britain win men's gold". Inside the Games. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  8. ^ a b "USA clinch women's basketball gold". International Paralympic Committee. 16 September 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  9. ^ Degun, Tom (17 July 2010). "Australia and US claim victory at World Wheelchair Basketball Championships". Inside the Games. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  10. ^ "Paralympic - Wheelchair Basketball Women Germany". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 23 September 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.

External links

Germany women's national wheelchair basketball team – 2016 Summer Paralympics
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