Alexander Walkenhorst

Alexander Walkenhorst
2018 in Düsseldorf
portrait
birthday	July 30, 1988
place of birth	Essen, Germany
size	2.06 m
Indoor volleyball
position	Universal
societies
–2010 2010–2011 2011–2012 2012–2016	VC Essen-Borbeck VC Bottrop 90 Bayer 04 Leverkusen A! B! C Titans Berg. Land TV Rottenburg SV Fellbach TSG Solingen Volleys
beach volleyball
partner	2004 Jan-Hendrik Geilen 2005–2009 Daniel Wernitz 2007–2009 Denis Berken 2008–2010 Matthias Penk 2009, 2014–2015 Stefan Windscheif 2010 Tilo Backhaus 2011–2012, 2016 Thomas Kaczmarek 2012–2013 Eric Koreng 2013 Lars Flüggen 2015–2016 Marcus Popp 2016 Bennet Poniewaz 2016 Kay Matysik since 2017 Sven Winter
society	DJK TuSA 06 Düsseldorf
National ranking	Position 4
successes
2009 - U23 European champion 2010 - Vice European champion U23 2011 - winner CEV Masters Niechorze 2012 - EC fifth 2012 - winner CEV Masters Novi Sad 2012 - German runner-up 2013 - second FIVB Open Anapa 2013 - EC fifth 2013 - German runner-up 2014 - EC fifth in 2014 - Fourth FIVB Grand Slam Long Beach 2015 - World Cup participant 2016 - Third place in 2017 - Winner CEV Satellite Siófok 2018 - Third FIVB 3-star Kisch Island 2019 - Third FIVB 2-star Aydin 2019 - Fourth FIVB 4 - Star Chetumal 2020 - Beach League finalist
Status: July 13, 2020

Alexander Walkenhorst (born July 30, 1988 in Essen ) is a German volleyball and beach volleyball player .

Career

From 2004 to 2006 Walkenhorst played various youth tournaments with Jan-Hendrik Geilen , Daniel Wernitz and Marcel Werzinger . On June 3, 2005, he made his debut in the German series alongside Werzinger in qualifying for the tournament in Munich. In 2007 he formed a new duo with Denis Berken , which finished seventh in the German championship . In the following year, Walkenhorst / Berken in Timmendorfer Strand only narrowly missed the medal ranks due to a defeat against Böckermann / Götz . The same result was then at the U21 World Cup in Brighton , which Walkenhorst played with Matthias Penk . Because of a dispute at the tournament in Munich, Walkenhorst separated from Berken. In August 2009 he and Stefan Windscheif won the U23 European Championship in Kaliningrad and the duo came in fifth in the German championship. In 2010 Walkenhorst and his new partner Tilo Backhaus achieved some successes in the national tournament series. At the European Championships in Berlin he retired with Kay Matysik as third party after the preliminary round. Two weeks later he lost to Penk at the U23 European Championship in Kos only in the final.

After Walkenhorst from the A! B! C Titans Berg at the beginning of the year . After switching country to TV Rottenburg , he competed for the first time with Thomas Kaczmarek at the Brasília Open in April 2011 . After a few medals at German tournaments, the Rottenburg team won the CEV Satellite tournament in Lausanne in June . They then triumphed at the CEV Masters in Niechorze and the Challenger tournament in Varna . In 2012, Kaczmarek / Walkenhorst finished fifth at the European Championships in Scheveningen and won the CEV Masters in Novi Sad . Because of an injury to Thomas Kaczmarek, Walkenhorst played with Eric Koreng since August 2012 . Koreng / Walkenhorst immediately became German runner-up in Timmendorf . In the summer of 2012, Walkenhorst also began a career as a coach at BeachZeit , a beach volleyball camp provider he a. a. in Turkey , but also at several German appointments.

After separating from Koreng, Walkenhorst formed a duo with Lars Flüggen in the summer of 2013 . Flüggen / Walkenhorst won the CEV satellite tournament in Lausanne and took second place at the CEV Masters in Novi Sad and at the FIVB Open in Anapa . At the European Championships in Klagenfurt , they reached fifth place. They later became German runners-up . From 2014 Walkenhorst played again with his former U23 partner Stefan Windscheif . After poor results at the World Championships in the Netherlands and at the European Championships in Klagenfurt , Walkenhorst and Windscheif parted ways in August 2015. In 2016, Walkenhorst played with various partners, including a. with Bennet Poniewaz and with Kay Matysik . At the German championship , Matysik / Walkenhorst took third place. Walkenhorst won the CEV satellite tournament in Siófok, Hungary, with Lorenz Schümann .

Walkenhorst has been playing with Sven Winter since 2017 . The duo's greatest successes included a third place at the 3-star tournament of the FIVB World Tour in Kish Island and at the 2-star tournament in Aydin . Alexander Walkenhorst and Sven Winter were given a wildcard for the 2019 home World Cup in Hamburg; Walkenhorst had to cancel the participation due to a wrist injury and was canceled for the rest of the season. In November 2019, Walkenhorst / Winter achieved fourth place at the FIVB 4-star tournament in Chetumal, Mexico . In June / July 2020 they lost to Dirk Westphal and Max Betzien in the final of the Beach League .

Alexander Walkenhorst's sisters Kira (2016 Olympic champion) and Pia also play volleyball and beach volleyball very successfully.

Others

Together with Dirk Funk and his former beach partner Daniel Wernitz , Walkenhorst has been running the volleyball podcast without a net and sandy soil since March 24, 2019 .

In summer 2020, Walkenhorst and his podcast colleagues Dirk Funk and Wernitz initiated an alternative event due to the cancellation of the Techniker Beach Tour with the Beach League . Eight women's and eight men's teams each played against each other four times and determined the league's winner in a final four.

Web links

• Team Walkenhorst / Winter
• Beach profile at DVV
• Profile at the world association FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German ranking list (as of January 2, 2020)
2. ↑ Results of the German championships at DVV - March 10, 2016 ( Memento of March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ beach-volleyball.de Alexander Walkenhorst and Stefan Windscheif: The team in brief
4. ↑ Philipp Vollmer: Volleyball Bundesliga: EnBW TVR: With ex-Titan Alexander Walkenhorst to Wuppertal. (No longer available online.) Volleyballer.de, January 14, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 8, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
5. ↑ Thomas Kaczmarek: Volleyball: Kaczmarek / Walkenhorst: New TVR beach volleyball duo starts the season. (No longer available online.) Volleyballer.de, April 15, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 7, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
6. ↑ Alexander Walkenhorst: Kaczmarek / Walkenhorst triumph in Lausanne. (No longer available online.) TV Rottenburg, June 20, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 7, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
7. ↑ Alexander Walkenhorst: Beach volleyball: "The miracle of Niechorze". (No longer available online.) TV Rottenburg, July 25, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 7, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
8. ↑ Klaus Wegener: Double gold for German duo at the Polish Masters. volleyball.de, July 25, 2011, accessed on August 7, 2011 . 
9. ↑ Alexander Walkenhorst: Beach volleyball: Kaczmarek / Walkenhorst also in Varna at the top of the podium. (No longer available online.) TV Rottenburg, August 1, 2011, archived from the original on September 16, 2011 ; Retrieved August 7, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Top team as a trainer in Turkey. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 15, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
11. ↑ Walkenhorst / Windscheif form a duo in the sand. RP online, September 23, 2013, accessed September 27, 2013 . 
12. ↑ Felix Meininghaus: Alex Walkenhorst and Stefan Windscheif are going separate ways with immediate effect. volleyball.de, August 6, 2015, accessed on August 6, 2015 . 
13. ↑ Beach volleyball: Walkenhorst cancels start at home World Cup. Sport1, accessed June 21, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Alexander Walkenhorst / Daniel Wernitz / Dirk Funk: Without a net and sandy soil - The volleyball podcast. Retrieved April 15, 2019 .