Simone Kues

No 6 - Simone Kues

Simone Kues (born November 8, 1976 ) is a German national player in wheelchair basketball . She plays in the first wheelchair basketball Bundesliga for Hamburger SV . With the national team, she won bronze at the World Cup in Amsterdam in 2006, is two-time European champion (2007, 2009), and won the silver medal at the Paralympics in Beijing in 2008 and in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. With the women's national team, she was also voted Team of the Year in disabled sports in 2008 and received the highest German sports award, the Silver Laurel Leaf , from Horst Köhler .

Life

At the Paul-Gerhardt-Schule in Dassel she graduated from high school in 1996. In the same year she had a riding accident in Ireland, which resulted in paraplegia. After rehabilitation, she began studying psychology and then devoted herself to a sports career.

Career

She played wheelchair basketball first at ASC Göttingen, then at RBV Lüneburg. She finished fourth with the national team at the 2004 Paralympics .

successes

2002: German champion with the RSC Hamburg
2003: German champion with the RSC Hamburg
2003: Gold European Championship
2005: Gold European Championship
2006: Bronze World Championship (Amsterdam, NED)
2006: German champion with SG Lower Saxony
2006: Gold - National Championship (Warm Springs, USA)
2007: Gold - European Championship (Wetzlar, GER)
2008: Gold - National Championship (Champaign, USA)
2008: Silver - Paralympics (Beijing, CHINA)
2009: Gold - European Championship (Stoke Mandeville, GBR)
2010: Silver at the World Championships in Birmingham, GBR
2010: German champion with HSV
2014: Silver at the World Championships in Toronto, CAN
2014: German champion with HSV
2016: Silver - Paralympics (Rio de Janeiro, BRA)

Award

On November 20, 2008, Federal President Horst Köhler presented Kues with the Silver Laurel Leaf .

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personal data
SURNAME	Kues, Simone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German wheelchair basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH	November 8, 1976