Sue Hobbs

Personal information
Full name	Susan Hobbs
Nationality	Australian
Born	1956/1957
Medal record Women's para-athletics Representing  Australia Paralympic Games 1980 Arnhem 60 m 5 1980 Arnhem 800 m 5 1980 Arnhem 1,500 m 5

Susan Hobbs (born 1956/1957) is an Australian para-athlete and wheelchair basketball player. Hobbs was the first woman to captain the Australian women's wheelchair basketball team and was inducted into Basketball Australia's Hall of Fame in 2013.^[1]

She was from South Australia. In 1976, at the age of 19, a car accident left her a paraplegic.^{[citation needed]} At the 1980 Arnhem Games, she competed in four athletics events and won three silver medals – Women's 60 m 5, Women's 800 m 5 and the Women's 1,500 m 5.^[2] She organised the first Australian women's wheelchair basketball team.^[3] She was the captain of the women's basketball team at the 1992 Barcelona Games.^[2][4] Basketball Australia established the Sue Hobbs Medallist for the Australian International Women's Wheelchair Player of the Year.^[5]

In 1999, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.^[3][6] After the symptoms prevented her from undertaking paid employment, she began volunteering for Multiple Sclerosis Society of SA and the Northern Territory Inc.^[3]

• Sue Hobbs at the International Paralympic Committee