Antonius Kass

Antonius "Toni" Kass
Toni Kass 2012
portrait
Date of birth	April 26, 1963
place of birth	Paderborn , Germany
size	2.00 m
position	Middle block
societies
1980-1986 1986-1989 1989-1991 1991-1992	VBC Paderborn Moerser SC Bayer Leverkusen Fortuna Bonn
National team
80 times	A national team
successes
1981 1990 1982	DVV Cup Winner German Champion Junior Vice European Champion
As of October 27, 2015

Antonius Kass , called Toni (born April 26, 1963 in Paderborn ), is a sports doctor and former German volleyball player .

Until his Abitur in 1982, Kass attended the Theodorianum high school in Paderborn.

Toni Kass played for ten years for four clubs in the volleyball Bundesliga and 80 times in the DVV senior national team. The greatest successes were second place at the European Junior Championships in 1982 and winning the German championship with Bayer Leverkusen in 1990. Kass studied medicine in Göttingen, Düsseldorf and Hobart (Tasmania).

During his specialist training as an orthopedic surgeon , Kass had been looking after the women's volleyball team since 1993 . In this role he took part in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and in 2004 in Athens . Since 2011 he has been the chief medical officer of the German Table Tennis Federation , having previously provided sports medicine to the table tennis boarding school in Düsseldorf and the Borussia Düsseldorf team from 2007 .

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , Kass was responsible for both the national table tennis players and the men's volleyball team ; at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio , he was directly responsible for looking after the entire German team through the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) Olympic team nominated. It was mainly used for table tennis players of the DTTB, who celebrated a historic success with a silver medal (women's team) and a bronze medal (men's team in the team competition).

In December 2014 Kass was appointed by the German Disabled Sports Association (DBS) as the association doctor of the national table tennis team for the disabled. This makes him the only team doctor in Germany who is responsible for both the disabled and regular sports as the main doctor of the association.

For the second edition of the European Games 2019 in Minsk he was appointed by the DOSB as the “Chief Medical Officer” of the German delegation and headed the medical team for the 250 athletes and supervisors.

Since 1992 he has been a member of the Anti-Doping Commission of the German Volleyball Association.

Kass has his own practice as an orthopedist and sports medicine specialist in Düsseldorf. Kass is married, has three daughters and lives in Ratingen .

Web links

• kass.de - practice website of Antonius Kass
• Notification of the DTTB: Appointment as team doctor
• Portrait in the Rheinische Post to look after the Olympic team in Rio 2016
• Notification of the dbs: Appointment as team doctor
• Interview with volleyball magazine about injuries in volleyball
• Head doctor of the German delegation at the 2nd European Games in Minsk