Simone Kues (born 8 November 1976) is a German 1.0 point national

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player who plays in the wheelchair basketball league for Hamburg SV. She joined the national team, and participated in the

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, at which the German team came fourth. She won bronze at the World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in

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in 2006. Her team were won the European championship in 2005, 2007 and 2009. She won a silver medal at the

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. The women's national team were voted Team of the Year in disabled sports in 2008, and President

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awarded them the Silver Laurel Leaf, Germany's highest German sports award.

Biography

Kues was born in

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on 8 November 1976. She matriculated from the in 1996. That same year she had a riding accident in Ireland, which resulted in paralysis. After rehab, she began studying psychology in

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...

in 1998, and then devoted herself to her sport career. She graduated in 2007, and now works as a psychologist at the 's paraplegic centre."Athlete Profile – Simone Kues".
International Paralympic Committee, 30 October 2009. Kues first played

at the rehab clinic. She went on to play for ASC Göttingen, then with RBV Lüneburg, and finally with SV Hamburg. She joined the national team, and participated in the

in Athens, at which the German team came fourth. 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

in Beijing. The women's national team were voted Team of the Year in disabled sports in 2008, and President

awarded them the Silver Laurel Leaf, Germany's highest German sports award. In June 2014, Kues rejoined the senior women's team for the

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, Canada. The German team won silver after being defeated by Canada in the final. The German team beat the Netherlands in the 2015 European Championships, to claim its tenth European title. At the

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, it won silver after losing the final to the United States.

Achievements

* 2005: Gold at European championship (

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, France) * 2006: Bronze World Championship (

, Netherlands) * 2007: Gold European Championship (

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, Germany) * 2008: Silver

(

, China) * 2009: Gold European Championship (

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, England) * 2010: Silver at the World Championships (

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, England) *2014: Silver at the World Championships (

, Canada) * 2015: Gold at the European Championships ( Worcester, England) * 2016: Silver at the Paralympic Games (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Awards

* 2008: Silver Laurel Leaf

Notes

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kues, Simone German women's wheelchair basketball players Paralympic wheelchair basketball players of Germany Wheelchair basketball players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Paralympic silver medalists for Germany 1976 births Living people Recipients of the Silver Laurel Leaf Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball People from Einbeck Sportspeople from Lower Saxony