Bianca Urbanke-Rösicke

Bianca Urbanke-Rösicke

Player information
birthday	17th September 1967
place of birth	Ludwigsfelde , GDR
citizenship	German
height	1.79 m
Playing position	Back right
Throwing hand	Left
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
1974-1980	BSG Lok Rangsdorf
1980-1985	ASK forward Frankfurt
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1985-1990	ASK forward Frankfurt
1990-5 / 1993	Bayer 04 Leverkusen
5 / 1993-6 / 1994	TV Lützellinden
6 / 1994-1999	Frankfurt HC
1999-2001	Ferrobus Mislata
2001-2004	Frankfurt HC
3/2005–7/2005	Thuringian HC
National team
Debut on	1986
against	Poland
	Games (goals)
DDR Germany	207 (775)
Status: October 15, 2015

Bianca Urbanke-Rösicke (born September 17, 1967 in Ludwigsfelde ) is a former German national handball player .

Club career

Early successes with the ASK Vorwärts

Because of her mother, who played handball herself, Bianca Urbanke started with handball at the age of six at the traditional BSG Lok Rangsdorf . In 1980 she was delegated to the Fritz Lesch children's and youth sports school in Frankfurt (Oder), where she was mainly trained in handball. The KJS partner was the handball section of ASK Vorwärts Frankfurt , which had one of the strongest women's handball teams in the GDR in the 1980s. For the league season 1985/86 Urbanke moved up from the youngsters to the women's team, with whom she was able to celebrate three GDR championship titles alongside players like Silke Fittinger or Katrin Krüger up to the league season 1989/90 .

Between Leverkusen and Valencia

In the course of the political changes in the GDR, the competitive athlete and former GDR national player reoriented herself and signed a contract with Bayer 04 Leverkusen after the end of the season . She won the DHB Cup with the Rhinelander in her first season at Bayer and was in the final of the IHF Cup, which, however, was lost to Lok Zagreb. After two more playing years for Bayer Leverkusen, Urbanke signed a contract with the champions of the 1992/93 season , TV Lützellinden, due to a significant budget cut by the Bayer Group for the 1993/94 season . With the team from the Giessen district, the runner-up was achieved, and TV Lützellinden also made it into the group phase of the EHF Champions League, in which they only failed to make it to the Champions League final because of the poorer goal difference against Vasas Budapest. After Urbanke had a falling out with Lützellinden trainer Jürgen Gerlach and also announced a child, she returned to her old place of work in Frankfurt (Oder) for the 1994/95 season. In the meantime, the Frankfurt handball club had been founded there, which was one of the leading clubs in German women's handball in the following years, not least thanks to Urbanke. From 1999 the right back player ran for two years at the Spanish club El Ferrobus Mislata . With the Spaniards, to whom she and her husband Dietmar Rösicke switched, she was the first Spanish team to win the EHF Cup in their first season and took third place in the EHF Women's Champions Trophy. In addition, there was the Spanish runner-up and the move into the Spanish cup final. In the following season, Urbanke-Rösicke and her team were among the top Spanish teams, they were runner-up again and have now won the Spanish Cup. However, the Mediterranean mentality bothered the couple, so they did not renew their contract in 2001.

Return to the Homeland

After initially speculating about a move to Denmark, the surprising news came in February 2001 that the couple would return to their old place of work in Frankfurt (Oder) so that, according to their own statements, the former European Cup winners would not disappear into no man's land . At that time, Frankfurt HC was playing in the 2nd Bundesliga after being relegated from the Bundesliga in the 1999/2000 season. However, the couple did not have small expectations when they returned. Further reinforcements should be required in order to be able to offer top handball again on the Oder and the state of Brandenburg should cover the club's pressing old debts with a guarantee. These expectations were obviously fulfilled, which once again demonstrated Urbankes' importance in the Brandenburg sports landscape. With Dietmar Rösicke as coach and Bianca Urbanke as captain, they were promoted to the Bundesliga again in the 2001/2002 season. There they finished fourth as a newcomer in the 2002/03 season and won the DHB Cup. At the age of 35, Urbanke was elected top scorer in the Bundesliga and player of the 2002/03 season. In the following season , the FHC won the German championship title with the Urbanke-Rösicke couple, the renewed election as handball player of the year was only a matter of form. After winning the championship in 2004, Urbanke actually ended her career. However, barely a year later, in March 2005, she made her comeback at the second division Thuringian HC , which she supported until the end of the season. The goal was promotion to the Bundesliga, which ultimately succeeded with the help of Urbanke. This rise was the cornerstone for the meanwhile impressive title record of the Thuringian HC.

National team

Bianca Urbanke-Rösicke was appointed to the GDR's national handball team as early as 1987, but did not take part in any major tournaments for the DHV selection. She missed the 1990 World Cup in South Korea because she had taken on German citizenship when she moved to Bayer 04 Leverkusen and was therefore no longer eligible to play for DHV. For the German national team , she played 207 international matches, in which she scored 775 goals. Urbanke played her first major tournament in 1992 at the Olympic Games in Barcelona. With the DHB team, she took 4th place there. In the following year 1993 she became world champion and best thrower of the DHB with the national team under coach Lothar Doering at the handball world championship. This is the only world title for the women of the DHB so far. This followed in 1994 and was runner-up in the European championship in his own country. After her baby break, Urbanke was no longer so accurate for the DHB team, but she continues to shine as a player with a great understanding of the game. Nevertheless, the big successes failed to materialize, after a 5th place at the handball world championship in 1995 in Austria / Hungary, there was a scandal at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. Selection coach Ekke Hoffmann left Urbanke on the bench in the opening game and only used her sporadically in the other games. Ultimately, the DHB team only finished sixth. After the tournament, Urbanke said: I never want to play under this coach again. But I would like to emphasize that this is not a resignation. I would continue under another coach. However, it was not until 1999 that this opportunity arose. So she missed the 1997 World Cup in her own country, in which the DHB selection was third, and the 1998 European Championship in the Netherlands, in which the DHB selection took sixth place. Only world champion trainer Lothar Doering was able to get Urbanke to play for the DHB selection again in one of his first official acts. Nevertheless, Urbank's high expectations of winning titles with the DHB selection were no longer fulfilled. At the 1999 World Cup , it was only seventh, which meant that qualification for the 2000 Olympic handball tournament was missed.

Private

Bianca Urbanke-Rösicke is married to the handball trainer Dietmar Rösicke . They have two children together.

successes

• GDR champion 1986, 1987, 1990 (ASK forward Frankfurt)
• German Champion 2004 (Frankfurt HC)
• DHB Cup winner 1991 (Bayer 04 Leverkusen)
• IHF Cup Winner 1990 (ASK Forward Frankfurt)
• EHF Cup Winner 2000 (El Ferrobus Mislata)
• World Champion 1993
• Vice European Champion 1994
• Promotion to the Bundesliga

• 2002 with the Frankfurt HC
• 2005 with the Thuringian HC

Honors

• 1994: Sportswoman of the year from Brandenburg

Web links

• Bianca-Urbanke-Rösicke in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Bianca Urbanke-Rösicke in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Media Information 02/03/2007 ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Frankfurt's handball players are aiming for a place in the European Cup as Bundesliga climbers: Just don't go crazy. In: Berliner Zeitung. Retrieved May 3, 2016 . 
3. ^ Berliner Zeitung: Urbanke to Thuringia. In: Berliner Zeitung. Retrieved May 3, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Lausitzer Rundschau: From pizza dreamers and PC freaks :: lr-online. In: www.lr-online.de. Retrieved May 3, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Märkische Allgemeine , December 14, 2015, p. 16