Anke Kühn

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Anke Kühne

Anke Kühne (nee Kühn) (born February 28, 1981 in Hanover ) is a German national hockey player .

Career

Kühne began her career at TSV Engensen together with Kerstin Hoyer , who was also a national hockey player, and played there from 1985 to 1991. She then moved to the Hannover Hockey Club and stayed there from 1991 to 1992. Then she was from 1992 to 1997 at DTV Hannover. Kühne has been active for Eintracht Braunschweig since 1997 and has played in the 1st Bundesliga for a long time . In the 2008/09 season, however, Eintracht Braunschweig rose to the second division and only rose again in the 2013/14 season.

She played her first international game on May 16, 2003 in the 4-2 victory of the German national team against Azerbaijan. In the same year she won the bronze medal with the national team at the European Hockey Championship in Barcelona .

Kühne celebrated her greatest success at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens . There she was surprisingly Olympic champion with the national team. Kühne scored the 1-0 with a short corner in the final against the Netherlands in the 6th minute . On August 25, 2007 she was with the national hockey team European champion at the 2007 European Field Hockey Championships in Manchester (England).

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 , Kühne was again in the women's hockey squad, with the German team taking fourth place. Anke Kühne (together with her teammate Fanny Rinne ) scored the most goals for the German team with a field goal and two penalty corners. Among other things, she managed the only German goal in the decisive game for third place against Argentina.

She is a certified teacher, but in the spring of 2007 she signed up for 24 months as a contract soldier as part of the preparations for the Olympic Games in Beijing. Since September 2009 she has been practicing her profession as a primary school teacher.

In July 2010 she married her boyfriend, the rower Tobias Kühne , who also took part in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and came in 6th place in the two without helmsman.

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Individual evidence

  1. Braunschweiger Zeitung, August 1, 2008