Barbara Czekalla

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Barbara Czekalla
portrait
Date of birth November 7, 1951
place of birth Caputh , GDR
size 1.73 m
societies
1969-1982 SC Dynamo Berlin
National team
230 times for the GDR national team
successes
1972-1975, 1978, 1979
1978
1974
1975
1976
1977
1979
1980 		GDR champion,
winner of the European Cup Winners' Cup
4th place World Championship Mexico
Bronze European Championship Yugoslavia
6th place Olympic Games Montreal
Silver European Championship Finland
Silver European Championship France
Silver Olympic Games Moscow

As of January 13, 2020

Barbara Czekalla (born November 7, 1951 in Caputh ) is a former German volleyball player .

Barbara Czekalla was born as the daughter of an opera singer in Caputh near Potsdam . The alternating engagements of the father brought with it several moves, so that the family finally settled in Gera in 1966 . In her youth, Czekalla initially practiced athletics, then played handball and volleyball at the same time at the BSG Dynamo Gera-Süd and in 1968 was delegated as a volleyball player to the children's and youth sports school in the Sportforum Berlin-Hohenschönhausen , where she graduated from high school in 1971.

Barbara Czekalla has played 230 times as a GDR national player and was also the captain of the national team at an early stage. She took part in the Olympic Games twice, finishing sixth in Montreal in 1976 and winning the silver medal in Moscow in 1980 . With her teammates, she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze in the same year . The Volleyball European Championships Women, she won with the GDR selection 1975 bronze and 1977 and 1979 silver.

Barbara Czekalla played for SC Dynamo Berlin and was GDR champion six times between 1972 and 1979 . She also won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1978 .

In 1981 she had to end her sports career after a foot operation and a subsequent herniated disc . Until 1991 she worked in the club management of SC Dynamo Berlin. After years of abstinence from volleyball, from 2009 to 2011 she was the regional coach in the Berlin Volleyball Association. She also looked after the youth teams of the Berlin VV and the senior women of the Berlin Brandenburger Sportclub . In the meantime (as of 2018) she lives in Gera again.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jens Lohse: The extended arm of the trainer. Ostthüringer Zeitung, December 19, 2018, accessed on December 19, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 4
  3. ↑ Senior women again masterfully. (PDF; 69 kB) Berlin Brandenburger Sportclub , May 13, 2008, accessed on December 13, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Czekalla, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Caputh