Gesche Schünemann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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German wheelchair basketball player
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Place of Birth: Gießen, Hesse, Germany
About Gesche Schünemann
- Gesche Schünemann (born 18 November 1982) is a German wheelchair basketball player and Paralympian who was part of the team that took the silver medal in the women's wheelchair basketball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, and the gold medal winning team in wheelchair basketball at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. After a promising basketball career was cut short by an Anterior cruciate ligament injury when she was a teenager, Schünemann took up wheelchair basketball, playing her first game in 2000.
- She went on to win five national championships with RSV Lahn-Dill.
- She began training with the national team in November 2005, and made her international debut at the European championships in 2007.
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