Laura Fürst
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| Born | 24 April 1991 | |||||||||||||||
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| Country | Germany | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair basketball | |||||||||||||||
| Disability class | 2.0 | |||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Women's team | |||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Wisconsin-Whitewater | |||||||||||||||
| Club | RBB Munich Iguanas | |||||||||||||||
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Laura Fürst (born 24 April 1991) is a German 2.0 point national wheelchair basketball player who plays in the wheelchair basketball league for RBB Munich, and for the German national team, with which she won silver at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto.
Laura Fürst was born in Munich on 24 April 1991. On 8 March 2008, while she was a 16-year-old exchange student at Petoskey High School in Petoskey, Michigan, Fürst was operating a snowmobile on a trail near Pleasantview Township, Michigan, when she lost control and crashed into a tree. Suffering serious injuries, she was taken to Northern Michigan Hospital in Petoskey, and then to the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Among her injuries was a shattered vertebra that caused paralysis in her legs, which rendered her an incomplete paraplegic.
Returning to Germany, Fürst went to the Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik Murnau in Murnau am Staffelsee, where she was introduced to wheelchair basketball during rehabilitation. Picking up the game quickly, she began playing for SV Reha Augsburg and RBB Munich, junior players being able to play for two teams. In 2011, she was a 2.0 point player with the German team at the U25 Women's World Cup in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. This was followed by defeating Sweden in the final to win the U22 European Championship at Stoke Mandeville in England in July 2012.
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