Laura prince

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Laura prince

Laura Fürst (born April 23, 1991 in Munich ) is a German wheelchair basketball player .

Life

On March 8, 2008, while she was a 16-year-old exchange student in Petoskey , Michigan , she had an accident with a snowmobile near Pleasantview Township, Michigan, and suffered, among other things, incomplete paraplegia .

Back in Germany, Fürst was familiarized with wheelchair basketball as part of the rehabilitation at the Murnau Accident Clinic . She started playing for SV Reha Augsburg and USC Munich . In 2011 she played with the German national team at the World Championships in St. Catharines , Ontario . The following year she was involved in beating Sweden at the European Championships in Stoke Mandeville , England .

Fürst studied physical engineering at the University of Wisconsin on the Whitewater campus from 2012-2013 and played for the university's Warhawks . In June 2014, Fürst played in the German team at the World Cup in Toronto , which won the silver medal in the final against Canada.

At the Paralympic Games in 2016, she and her team reached 2nd place and won a silver medal. For this success, she and her team were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on November 1, 2016.

Prince studied at the Technical University of Munich the Master of Mechanical Engineering .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Laura Fürst . Wheelchair basketball Munich eV Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 5, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rbb-muenchen.de
  2. ^ A b Wolfgang Langner: A little piece of happiness . In: Augsburger Allgemeine , July 23, 2012. Retrieved July 5, 2014. 
  3. ↑ U22 Wheelchair Basketball European Championships: Day 6 - Finals . British wheelchair basketball. Retrieved July 5, 2014.
  4. ↑ Warhawk women's team takes form - New additions from overseas ( English ) University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. June 11, 2012. Retrieved July 5, 2014.
  5. ↑ 2014 WWWBC: Germany ( English ) Wheelchair Basketball Canada. Archived from the original on February 2, 2015. Retrieved June 28, 2014.
  6. ↑ Andreas Joneck: German World Cup dream bursts for the second time . Team Germany. Retrieved July 6, 2014.
  7. ↑ German Disabled Sports Association, We for Germany - Laura Fürst -
  8. ↑ Press release from the Office of the Federal President about the award of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games
  9. ↑ On the hunt for medals in Rio. In: www.tum.de. Retrieved September 10, 2016 .

Participant in the 2016 Paralympic Summer Games

personal data
SURNAME Prince, Laura
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wheelchair basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich