Britta Kautz
Britta Kautz (* 1982 or 1983) is a German wheelchair basketball player .
Career
Britta Kautz comes from Lindlar in the Rhineland. She attended the Engelbert von Berg high school in Wipperfürth , which she left with the Abitur in 2002. She is a teacher by profession.
She is a wheelchair user. Nevertheless, she did not want to do without a sporting activity and therefore chose wheelchair basketball as her sport. She became a member of ASB Bonn and was soon appointed to the German national team for basketball in a wheelchair. In 2008 she became a member of the German team at the Paralympic Summer Games in Beijing , reached the final with her team, but lost to the USA and won the silver medal.
The German wheelchair basketball team was successful at the 2006 World Championships: Britta Kautz won the bronze medal with her. On January 1, 2009, she moved from Bonn to Hesse and became a member of RGV Lahn / Dill. But she also continued to play in the German women's wheelchair basketball team, with which she became European champion in 2009.
Awards
- September 10, 2009: Sports badge of the State of Hesse
- November 1, 2008: Silver bay leaf
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Press release from Engelbert von Berg Gymnasium ... Ex-student wins silver medal ...
- ↑ a b Kölnische Rundschau of August 9, 2008 ... The dream of the medal ...
- ^ List of medal winners at the 2008 Paralympics
- ↑ Communication from RGV Lahn / Dill
- ^ Message in Das Magazin, issue 5/2009
- ↑ Communication from RSV Lahn / Dill, www.rsvlahndill.de
- ↑ Federal President's Office: ... Greeting from Federal President Koehler on the award of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the Olympus medal winners. and Paralymp. Games 2008
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kautz, Britta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German wheelchair basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1982 or 1983 |