Catharina Weiss

Catharina Weiss
Catherina Weiss in Olyampic
Personal information
Nationality Germany
Born (2000-06-02) 2 June 2000 (age 24)
Stuttgart, Germany
Sport
SportWheelchair basketball
Disability class1.0
EventWheelchair Basketball
College teamUniversity of Alabama
TeamRSV Lahn-Dill
Achievements and titles
Paralympic finals2020 Paralympics, 2024 Paralympics
Medal record
IWBF World Championship
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Hamburg, Germany Women's wheelchair basketball

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.

Biography

Catharina 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.[3] She is classified as a 1.0 point player.[1]

The club RSKV Tübingen held a monthly training session for young people, which Weiss 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.[3] 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 defeated China to win bronze.[3][1]

In 2019, Weiss was awarded a sports scholarship to the University of Alabama, which has a distinguished wheelchair basketball team, and began studying marketing and business there.[2] She joined the club RSV Lahn-Dill in 2020, and was part of its side that won the 2021 champions' league and the 2022 national championship. In March 2024, she announced that she was leaving RSV Lahn-Dill at the end of the 2023/2024 season.[4]

Weiss was named as one of the All-Star Five at the 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship,[5] 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

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Catharina Weiss". Paris 2024 Paralympics. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  2. ^ a b "EZ-Serie Sportler in der Warteschleife: Eine Saison ohne zwei Highlights - Weiterer Lokalsport". Esslinger Zeitung. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d "Die 18-jährige Rollstuhlbasketballerin gewann im Sommer WM-Bronze: Catharina Weiß's großer Wurf - Lokalsport". Cannstatter Zeitung. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
  4. ^ "Catharina Weißsagt zum Saisonende Tschüß" (in German). RSV Lahn-Dill. 23 March 2024. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
  5. ^ "Interview with Catharina Weiß: "You always have to work hard to improve yourself"". Rollt. Das Magazin für Rollstuhlbasketball in Deutschland. 18 September 2019. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
  6. ^ "Germany bounce back to claim European bronze". International Wheelchair Basketball Federation. 7 July 2019. Retrieved 4 September 2024.