Benjamin Wess
Benjamin Philipp Simon Wess 
Benjamin Wess, 2012
Birthday: July 28, 1985
Place of birth: Moers , Germany
Club information
Club: Real von Chamisso, Berlin
Clubs in the youth
Moerser SC
Clubs as active
2007 - ????: Rot-Weiß Köln
????: Uhlenhorst Mülheim
????: Club de Campo Villa de Madrid
????: Crefelder HTC
????: Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires
-2007: Crefelder HTC
Club successes
2006: German champion field
2007: German champion Halle
2007: European championship cup
National team successes
2002: Silver 2nd place U18 European Championship in Rotterdam
2004: Silver 2nd place U21 European Championship in Nivelles
2006: Silver 2nd place U21 European Championship in Prague
2007: 4th place Men's European Field Hockey Championship in Manchester
2008: Gold at the Olympic Games in Beijing
2009: Silver at the 2009 European Field Hockey Championships in Amstelveen
2010: Silver at the 2010 World Hockey Championships in New Delhi
2011: Gold at the 2011 Indoor Hockey Championships in Poznan
2011: Gold at the European Field Hockey Championships in Mönchengladbach
2012 : Gold at the European Indoor Hockey Championships in Leipzig
2012: Gold at the Olympic Games in London
Benjamin Wess (born July 28, 1985 in Moers ) is a German hockey player and member of the German national team . He is the younger brother of Timo Wess .
Wess played for the national team for the first time on August 16, 2005 in a game against India as part of the Amsterdam RaboTrophy, and made his debut in the U16 team on April 13, 2001 (3-2 against Spain in Barcelona). He was a player in the Hockey Bundesliga at Crefelder HTC . With this he won the 2007 European Champion Clubs' Cup . Wess scored the decisive goal in the 1-0 win over Atlètic Terrassa .
Since the 2007/2008 season, Wess has been playing with his brother Timo for Rot-Weiß Köln , with whom they were promoted from the second to the first Bundesliga. His first major tournament with the German national hockey team was the 2007 European Championship in Manchester, where Wess finished fourth with the German team. At the 2008 Olympic Games , he won gold with the German team. He was runner-up in the European Championship behind England in 2009 and World Championship runner-up behind Australia in India in 2010 . In February 2011 he was part of the successful team at the 2011 World Indoor Hockey Championship . In August 2011, the German team won the final against the Netherlands at the European Field Hockey Championship in Mönchengladbach. In 2012 Wess became European indoor champions with the German team.
In 2018, Wess, looking for new challenges, moved to Berlin's upper division Real von Chamisso .
Benjamin Wess completed 142 international matches, 12 of them indoors. (As of June 24, 2012)
Benjamin Wess, who graduated from high school in Moers , is studying business administration in Cologne, as is his brother Timo .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Profile of Benjamin Wess on deutscher-hockey-bund.de
- ↑ Hockey: CHTC has Europe's crown WZ from May 28, 2007
- ^ "Weß brothers leave Krefeld", Rheinische Post dated November 14, 2006
- ↑ Relaxation is a foreign word , report from July 30, 2007 on rp-online.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wess, Benjamin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German hockey player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moers |