Natalie Simanowski (born 20 July 1978) is a German retired Paralympic cyclist who competed at international elite competitions.

She became a middle-distance athlete competing as a national level marathon runner and she became a paediatric nurse.

As she opened the boot, she was attacked by someone described as "a psychopath" who stabbed her twice in the spinal cord between her eleventh and twelfth thoracic vertebrae and narrowly missed her left lung with a butcher's knife.

He was diagnosed with schizophrenic psychosis as a result of drug abuse and had voices in his head telling him to kill a woman which was his motive for the attack on Simanowski.

[1] After she got in contact with Adelbert Kromer, who was the national coach, she took up cycling and was soon training two hours each day.