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| Born | 8 November 1976 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair basketball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | 1.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Women's team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Paralympic finals | 2008 Paralympics, 2016 Paralympics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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.