Maria Kühn
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Nickname | Ria | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Dresden, Germany | 14 February 1982||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Wheelchair basketball | ||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | 1.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Women's team | ||||||||||||||||||||
Team | SV Reha Augsburg | ||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Birgit Meitner | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Paralympic finals | 2012 Summer Paralympics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Maria Kühn (born 14 February 1982) is a 1.0-point wheelchair basketball player who plays for SV Reha Augsburg in the German wheelchair basketball league. She has also played in the German national team, with which she won two European titles, was runner-up at 2010 World Championships, and won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Having won the gold medal, President Joachim Gauck awarded the team the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (Silver Laurel Leaf), Germany's highest sporting honour.
Personal
Kühn was born in
She earned a degree in management student from the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW). Since 2011, she has worked in Human Resources at the Gesellschaft für Technische Überwachung (GTÜ) (Society for Technical Supervision).[2]
Wheelchair basketball
Kühn is a
Kühn joined the national team in 2009, while in
In June 2012, Kühn was named as one of the team that competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in London.
Achievements
- 2009: Gold at the European Championships (Stoke Mandeville, England)[6]
- 2010: Silver at the Women's World Championships (Birmingham, England)[6]
- 2011: Gold at the European Championships (Nazareth, Israel)[7]
- 2012: Gold at the Paralympic Games (London, England)[8]
Awards
Notes
- ^ a b c "Maria Kuehn – Wheelchair Basketball – Paralympic Athlete – London 2012". Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 26 May 2013. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ^ a b c Veeser, Christoph (13 May 2012). "London und Medaille fest im Visier". Stuttgarter-Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 15 March 2013.
- ^ "Maria Kühn zu den Skywheelern" (in German). rollstuhlbasketball.de. Archived from the original on 15 June 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
- ^ "Sport in Stuttgart" (PDF) (in German). Sportkreis Stuttgart. Retrieved 13 June 2013.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Maria Kühn, Studentin der DHBW Stuttgart, wurde für die deutsche Rollstuhlbasketball-Nationalmannschaft der Damen nominiert" (PDF) (in German). DHBW Stuttgart. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
- ^ a b c "Erfolgreiche Athleten" (in German). DHBW Stuttgart. Archived from the original on 19 November 2013. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
- ^ a b c "Nu Nguyen-Thi darf nicht mit: Holger Glinicki benennt Kader für die Paralympics". Rolling Planet (in German). 12 June 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
- ^ a b c "Germany claim women's crown". Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 7 September 2012. Archived from the original on 30 April 2013. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
- ^ Mannion, Tim (21 July 2012). "Victory for Rollers and Gliders as London Awaits". Archived from the original on 21 July 2015. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
- ^ a b c "Rollstuhlbasketballerinnen sind Mannschaft des Jahres" (in German). HSV-Rollstuhlsport. 25 November 2012. Archived from the original on 10 November 2014. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
- ^ "New York / Stoke Mandeville 1984 Paralympic Games – Wheelchair Basketball – Women". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
- ^ a b "Verleihung des Silbernen Lorbeerblattes" (in German). Bundespräsidialamt. 7 November 2012. Archived from the original on 19 November 2018. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
External links
- Maria Kuhn at the International Paralympic Committee
- "Stuttgart Maria Kühn im Interview" (in German). Retrieved 15 March 2013.