Background
Kühn was born in Dresden, Germany on 14 February 1982.
Kühn was born in Dresden, Germany on 14 February 1982.
At the age of 20, after finishing high school, she took a holiday in the United States. While horseback riding in Monument Valley, she had a bad fall and became paralysed from the fifth thoracic vertebra down. 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).
Kühn is a 1.0-point wheelchair basketball player. Before her accident, she was physically active with swimming, cycling and running.
Afterwards, she took up wheelchair dancing as a form of exercise, but later switched to wheelchair basketball, although she had never been much interested in ball sports. She moved to Ludwigsburg to play for SV Reha Augsburg in the German national league in 2009, but switched to the Frankfurt Mainhatten Skywheelers for the 2011/12 season.
Since 2009, her coach has been Brigit Meitner.
Kühn joined the national team in 2009, while in Stuttgart, where she now lives. On 11 July 2009 during the International Paralympic Day celebration in Berlin, the team showed up at the Brandenburg Gate before 58,000 visitors, and Kühn gave President Horst Köhler a demonstration of the sport. In June 2012, Kühn was named as one of the team that competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in London.
In the Gold Medal match, the team faced the Australia women"s national wheelchair basketball team, a team that had defeated them 48–46 in Sydney just a few months before.
They were awarded a Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (Silver Laurel Leaf), Germany"s highest sporting honour, by President Joachim Gauck in November 2012, named Team of the Year for 2012. 2009: Gold at the European Championships (Stoke Mandeville, England).
2009: Gold at the European Championships (Stoke Mandeville, England) 2010: Silver at the Women"s World Championships (Birmingham, England) 2011: Gold at the European Championships (Nazareth, Israel) 2012: Gold at the Paralympic Games (London, England) 2012: Team of the Year 2012: Silver Laurel Leaf.
