Badri Latif

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Badri Latif (born November 2, 1977 in Berlin ) is a former German hockey player , she won the Olympic gold medal in 2004.

Badri Latif grew up in Berlin as the daughter of a Persian and a German. She was friends with Natascha Keller in kindergarten and so found her way to hockey. When Berliner HC , the defender 1996 1999 belonged to the champion team, 2000, 2005 and 2006 she won the title again.

In 1997 Badri Latif made her debut in the German national hockey team , at the FIH Champions Trophy in her hometown of Berlin, she achieved second place with the German team. Two years later the German women finished third in Brisbane. In 2002 Badri Latif won the European Indoor Hockey Championship with the German team. At the field hockey world championship in Perth in 2002 , the German team took seventh place. The first indoor hockey world championship was held in Leipzig in 2003, and the German team won the title. The German women won bronze outdoors at the 2003 European Championships in Barcelona. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens Badri Latif was in all six games, in the final the German women won 2-1 over the Netherlands.

For this she and the German team were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on March 16, 2005.

A year later, the Dutch women returned the favor with a 2-1 victory in the final of the 2005 European Championship in Dublin. In 2006 Badri Latif won the Champions Trophy with the German team in Amstelveen, but the German team only achieved eighth place at the World Cup in Madrid. Badri Latif played a total of 145 international matches from 1997 to 2007, 12 of them indoors.

Badri Latif successfully completed her medical degree in 2006.

literature

  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Athens 2004. The German Olympic team . Frankfurt am Main 2004

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release of the Office of the Federal President of March 16, 2005 ... Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games ...
  2. ↑ List of German national players
personal data
SURNAME Latif, Badri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH November 2nd 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin