Catharina Weiss (born 2 June 2000) is a German 1.0 point wheelchair basketball player, who played for the German national team at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo and the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris.
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| Nationality |  Germany | ||||||||
| Born | 2 June 2000 Stuttgart, Germany | ||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair basketball | ||||||||
| Disability class | 1.0 | ||||||||
| Event | Wheelchair Basketball | ||||||||
| College team | University of Alabama | ||||||||
| Team | RSV Lahn-Dill | ||||||||
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| Paralympic finals | 2020 Paralympics, 2024 Paralympics | ||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
editCatharina Weiss was born in Stuttgart, Germany, on 2 June 2000.[1] She attended the Käthe Kollwitz School in Esslingen-Zell, from which she graduated in 2019.[2] Her spinal cord was damaged by a tumor when she was two months old. She was active in sports, including swimming, monoski and wheelchair basketball, which she first took up at the age of nine. The club RSKV Tübingen held a monthly training session for young people, which she joined. She began attending weekly training sessions, and then played in state and regional competitions, eventually playing for the Rolling Chocolate in Heidelberg in the 2015/2016 season. Two years later she moved to the Ulm Sabres, on the grounds that Ulm was slightly closer than Heidelberg.[3] In 2018, she was part of the national team at the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg, where the German side beat China to win bronze.[3][1]
In 2019, she was awarded a She received a sports scholarship to the University of Alabama, which has a distinguished wheelchair basketball team, and began studying marketing and business there.[2] She was named as one of the All-Star Five at the 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship,[4] and went on to play with the national team at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, the 2021 IWBF Women's European Championship in Madrid, the 2022 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships in Dubai, the 2023 IWBF Women's European Championship in Rotterdam and the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris.[1]
Achievements
edit- 2017: Silver at European Wheelchair Basketball Championship (Tenerife, Spain)[1]
- 2018: Bronze at the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship (Hamburg, Germany)[1]
- 2019: Bronze at the 2019 IWBF Women's European Championship (Rotterdam, Netherlands)[5]
Notes
edit- ^ a b c d e "Paris 2024". olympics.com. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
- ^ a b "EZ-Serie Sportler in der Warteschleife: Eine Saison ohne zwei Highlights - Weiterer Lokalsport". Esslinger Zeitung. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
- ^ a b "Die 18-jährige Rollstuhlbasketballerin gewann im Sommer WM-Bronze: Catharina Weiß's großer Wurf - Lokalsport". Cannstatter Zeitung. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
- ^ "Interview with Catharina Weiß: "You always have to work hard to improve yourself"". Rollt. Das Magazin für Rollstuhlbasketball in Deutschland. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
- ^ "Germany bounce back to claim European bronze". International Wheelchair Basketball Federation. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
