Benjamin Ortner

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Basketball player
Benjamin Ortner
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Player information
birthday March 16, 1983 (37 years 168 days)
place of birth Innsbruck , Austria
size 206 cm
position Power Forward /
Center
college MetroState Denver
Club information
society Pallacanestro Reggiana
league Lega Basket Serie A
Clubs as active
2001–2005 MetroState Roadrunners ( NCAA II) 2005–2008 Pallacanestro Reggiana 2008–2009 Pallalcesto Amatori Udine 2009–2011 Pallacanestro Cantù 2011–2012 Benetton Treviso 2012 LTi Gießen 46ers 2012–2014 Montepaschi Siena 2014–2017 Reyer Venezia Mestre 2017 Felice Scandone Avellino 2017 –2018 Basket Brescia Leonessa Since 2018 Pallacanestro ReggianaUnited StatesUnited States
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National team
Since 002005 Austria

Benjamin Ortner (born March 16, 1983 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian basketball player . Except for a short time in 2012, when he played for the German Bundesliga club LTi Gießen 46ers , Ortner, who can be used in the positions of Power Forward and Center, has been active in Italy since 2005 .

Career

During his studies in the United States from 2001 to 2005 , Ortner played together with Mark Worthington, who is known from the German basketball league, for the basketball team of the Metropolitan State College of Denver and won the Division II championship in the NCAA in 2002 at the Roadrunners as a good shot blocker and set the team record for most blocks in a game. After completing his studies, Ortner moved to Pallacanestro Reggiana , where he played for two years in Serie A and one year in LegADue . He then played for Pallalcesto Amatori Udine , whose relegation from Serie A he could not prevent. Ortner, however, stayed in the top Italian division and signed with the traditional Pallacanestro Cantù . With this club he qualified straight away for the playoffs , but injured himself in their opening encounter and could no longer be used in the playoffs. In the following season Ortner reached the final with Cantù in both the Italian championship and the cup, which meant the club's participation in the Euroleague for the 2011/12 season . At the end of 2011, he switched to Benetton Treviso and thus Ortner's next career station in Italy.

After he had not found a new club in the summer of 2012, Ortner was signed by the LTi Gießen 46ers from Germany. There he was given a three-month contract and was supposed to help out due to injury problems. Ortner played in four games for the Hessians and then received an offer from Montepaschi Siena . He accepted this and moved back to Italy. This season Ortner won both the Italian championship and the cup with Siena and reached the round of the best 16 teams in the Euroleague. The titles were stripped from Siena in 2016.

At the start of the 2013/14 season, Ortner celebrated victory in the Italian Supercup with Siena. In the Euroleague, however, they failed to make it into the top 16 and then also missed the second round in the Eurocup intermediate round (the so-called load 32). Also this season Ortner reached the Italian cup final with Siena, but this time had to give up Banco di Sardegna Sassari . In the championship they finished second at the end of the regular season and also made it into the finals in the playoffs, where they took another 3-2 lead in the series after falling 2-0 down. In the end Ortner had to admit defeat to the new Italian champion EA7 Emporio Armani Milano with Siena 3-4 . Since Siena will not take part in the Euroleague and Serie A due to financial problems in the 2014/15 season, it was foreseeable that Ortner would leave the club.

For the 2014/15 season Ortner moved within Serie A to Reyer Venezia Mestre . After a stop in Avellino in the first half of the 2017/18 season, he was signed by Basket Brescia Leonessa  (also Serie A) in mid-December 2017 . At the beginning of the 2018/19 season, Ortner was without a club, in November 2018 he was hired by Pallacanestro Reggiana (Italy, Serie A), where he was already under contract at the beginning of his professional career.

Achievements & titles

  • Italian champion: 2013 (title revoked), 2017
  • Italian Cup Winner: 2013 (title revoked)
  • Italian Supercup winner: 2013 (title revoked)
  • Euroleague Top 16: 2013
  • NCAA Division II Champion: 2002

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GoMetroState.com: Men's Basketball 2009–10 Media Guide (English), PDF (3.5 MB), accessed on June 7, 2010
  2. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Ortner is missing in the 2nd quarter-finals. )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.laola1.at
  3. ^ Frankfurter Neue Presse: Change to Italy: Benjamin Ortner leaves Gießen 46ers | Frankfurter Neue Presse. Retrieved July 18, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Siena's championship title revoked , Sport1 from October 7, 2016
  5. ↑ L'Umana Reyer comunica ufficialmente l'ingaggio di Benjamin Ortner . In: reyer.it . Retrieved July 8, 2014. 
  6. ^ Basket, colpo Germani: preso Benjamin Ortner - Giornale di Brescia . In: Giornale di brescia . December 15, 2017 ( giornaledibrescia.it [accessed November 23, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Madl Florian: Ortner back in Serie A . In: Tiroler Tageszeitung Online . November 15, 2018 ( tt.com [accessed November 23, 2018]).

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personal data
SURNAME Ortner, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck