Simone Kues

Simone Kues

Personal information
Born	(1976-11-08) 8 November 1976 (age 40)
Sport
Country	Germany
Sport	Wheelchair basketball
Disability class	1.5
Event(s)	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.

Kues was born in Einbeck in Lower Saxony on 8 November 1976. She matriculated from the Paul-Gerhardt-Schule Dassel () in 1996. That same year she had a riding accident in Ireland, which resulted in paralysis. After rehab, she began studying psychology in Göttingen in 1998, and then devoted herself to her sport career. She graduated in 2007, and now works as a psychologist at the BG Trauma Hospital Hamburg ()'s paraplegic centre.

Kues first played wheelchair basketball 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 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 won the European championship in 2005, 2007 and 2009, and 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.

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