Ajith Fernando

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Ajith Deepan Anthony Fernando
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DM 2013 Ahlhorn
portrait
Date of birth July 11, 1985
place of birth Championpatta, Sri Lanka
size 169 cm
position Defense
societies
2001–2009
since 2009 		TSG Tiefenthal
TSV Pfungstadt
National team
since 2004 66 international matches (3 × U18 / 10 × U21 / 53 × men)

As of August 28, 2018

Ajith Deepan Anthony Fernando (born July 11, 1985 in Championpatta ) is a German fistball player. He plays in the field season as well as in the indoor season at TSV Pfungstadt in the 1st Bundesliga South. He made his international debut in the men's national team in August 2010 at the international tournament in Jona (Switzerland) against Switzerland .

Career

The Sri Lankan-born career began in the youth of the Palatinate TSG Tiefenthal. It was here that he learned to walk with a ball until he switched to one of the world's best teams, TSV Pfungstadt, in 2009. He is an integral part of the defensive position there. There he is also used in the national team. Ajith Fernando only drew attention to himself in the U21 national team when he was U21 European champion three times in a row . The real breakthrough came at TSV Pfungstadt. There he won five German championships (4 × field / 1 × hall) at national level from 2010 to 2013 and twice won the European Champion's Cup. At the side of his teammate Patrick Thomas , he won the 2013 World Games in Cali, Colombia .

successes

National team
  • 2004: U21 European Champion (Hochburg an der Ach / Austria)
  • 2005: U21 European Champion (Tecknau / Switzerland)
  • 2006: U21 European Champion (Unterhaugstett / Germany)
  • 2010: 3rd place European Championship (Ermatingen / Switzerland)
  • 2012: 3rd place European Championship (Schweinfurt / Germany)
  • 2013: World Games winner (Cali / Colombia)
  • 2015: 1st place World Championship (Province of Córdoba / Argentina)
  • 2016: 1st place European Championship (Grieskirchen / Austria)
  • 2017: World Games winner (Breslau / Poland)
  • 2018: 1st place European Championship (Adelmannsfelden / Germany)
  • 2019: 1st place World Championship (Winterthur / Switzerland)
Association (national)
  • 2010: German champion (field)
  • 2011: German champion (field)
  • 2012: German champion (field)
  • 2012/13: German champion (hall)
  • 2013: German champion (field)
  • 2013/14: German champion (hall)
  • 2014: German champion (field)
  • 2014/15: German champion (hall)
  • 2015: German champion (field)
  • 2015/16: German champion (hall)
  • 2016: German champion (field)
  • 2016/17: German champion (hall)
  • 2018: German champion (field)
Association (international)
  • 2011: 3rd place in the European Champion Clubs' Cup
  • 2012: European Cup winner (field)
  • 2013: European Cup winner (field)
  • 2014: World Cup winner (field)
  • 2015: European Cup Winner (Halle)
  • 2015: European Cup winner (field)
  • 2015: European Cup Winner (Halle)
  • 2016: European Cup winner (field)
  • 2016: World Cup winner (field)
  • 2016: European Cup Winner (Halle)
  • 2017: European Cup Winner (Halle)
  • 2018: European Cup winner (field)

Honors

On October 25, 2013 he was honored for the World Games title in Colombia by Federal President Joachim Gauck for his sporting success with the silver laurel leaf . During a celebration moderated by Johannes B. Kerner , he received the highest award for German athletes. Kerner also moderated the awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf on October 13, 2017 in Berlin for the renewed win of the World Games in Wrocław ( Breslau ), to which the players had invited the coaches.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bundespraesident.de: Information on the award of the Silver Laurel Leaf (accessed on November 1, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Fernando, Ajith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fernando, Ajith Deepan Anthony (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fistball player
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Champion patta / Sri Lanka