Simone Kues

Simone Kues

Personal information
Born	(1976-11-08) 8 November 1976 (age 47)
Sport
Country	Germany
Sport	Wheelchair basketball
Disability class	1.5
Event	Women's team
Achievements and titles
Paralympic finals	2008 Paralympics, 2016 Paralympics
Medal record Wheelchair basketball Paralympic Games 2008 Beijing Women's Wheelchair basketball 2016 Rio de Janeiro Women's Wheelchair basketball IWBF World Championship 2006 Amsterdam, Netherlands Women's wheelchair basketball 2010 Birmingham, Great Britain Women's wheelchair basketball 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.