Birgit Menz (basketball player)

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Basketball player
Birgit Menz
Player information
birthday May 31, 1967
place of birth Berlin , Germany
date of death 22nd November 2019
size 184 cm
position Power forward
Clubs as active
0000-1996 GermanyGermany HSG Humboldt-Uni Berlin / WEMEX Berlin
1996-2000 GermanyGermany BG Chemnitz
2002-2007 GermanyGermany TuS Jena Burgaupark Ladybaskets
National team 1
0000-1990 Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR 24 games
1994-1999 GermanyGermany Germany 70 games
1 As of November 23, 2019

Birgit Menz , née Blauert , also Birgit Eggert , (born May 31, 1967 in Berlin ; † November 22, 2019 ) was a German basketball player .

Career

society

Menz began her basketball career in the GDR at the HSG Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1985, 1987 and 1990 she was named Player of the Year. After the reunification she played in the 1st women's basketball league until 1996 at the successor club of the HSG (since 1993 WEMEX Berlin). With the Berliners she managed to win the runner-up in 1995 . In 1996 she moved to BG Chemnitz , with whom she took third place in 2000 . At the end of the 1999/2000 season, she not only ended her Bundesliga career, but initially also her active career. In 2002 she resumed her active career, this time with the second division TuS Jena Burgaupark Ladybaskets . After the 2005/2006 season, Menz initially planned to end her career. Since many Jena players were injured at the beginning of the next season, she only ended her career in the summer of 2007. For years she was one of the best defenders in the Bundesliga, was steal - "Queen" for years and was one of the top ten throwers in the Bundesliga .

Since her time in Jena, she has also been in charge of the Thuringian Basketball Association's office .

National team

Menz played 24 games for the GDR national team before 1990 . In 1994 she was appointed to the nationwide national basketball team for the first time , for which she played a total of seventy games. Her greatest successes included the European Championship bronze medal in Hungary in 1997 and participation in the FIBA World Cup in Germany in 1998 . In 1999 she completed her last international match.

Menz was an active maxi basketball player . In 2006 she won the European championship with the over 35 team, and in 2010 she became vice European champion with the over 40 team. In 2013 Birgit Menz became world champion with the German over 45 national team in Thessaloniki . In the final, the German team beat final opponent Russia 64:44. It was the first title of a German team in a basketball world championship. A year later she and the team became European champion with a 72:45 final victory over Ukraine.

Private

The maiden name of the trained cook was Blauert, from 1992 she was called Eggert. She had been in a relationship with basketball coach Frank Menz since the early 1990s , with whom she first moved to Weißenfels in 1994 and then to Jena. The two married in 2005, after which she took the surname Menz. She brought the daughters Tina (* 1988) and Jenny (* 1991) into the marriage. The fact that Birgit Menz played together with her daughters in a team at TuS Jena from 2005 to 2007 in the 2nd women's basketball league was a curiosity in German basketball . In December 2008, their third daughter Marie was born.

Menz died on November 22, 2019 after a serious illness.

Achievements and Awards

successes

Honors

  • Player of the year in the GDR league : 1985, 1987, 1990
  • Chemmy ( Chemnitz Sportswoman of the Year): 1997
  • Jena's Sportswoman of the Year: 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DBV - German Basketball Association. In: sport-record.de. Retrieved November 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Thomas Wolfer: Bundesliga women from TuS plan new season - national players should come . In: Ostthüringer Zeitung . July 5, 2006 ( genios.de ).
  3. ↑ Michael Ulbrich: Grande Dame Menz stopped - Birgit Menz (39) ended career . In: Thüringische Landeszeitung . September 16, 2006 ( genios.de ).
  4. ↑ Big Mama's return - basketball: Birgit Menz just can't let it go . In: Thüringische Landeszeitung . November 6, 2006 ( genios.de ).
  5. ↑ "Big-Mama" no longer likes . In: Thüringische Landeszeitung . December 8, 2007 ( genios.de ).
  6. ↑ The Thuringian Basketball Association mourns Birgit Menz. In: tbv-online.de. November 23, 2019, accessed November 23, 2019 .
  7. ↑ National players for the DBV of the GDR. In: tt-basketball-halle.de. Retrieved November 23, 2019 .
  8. ^ Games by Birgit Eggert. In: mahr.sb-vision.de. Retrieved November 23, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung: SENIOREN-EM HAMBURG: Basketball players get medals. August 8, 2006, accessed December 5, 2019 .
  10. ^ Review of the Maxi Basketball European Championship 2010 in Zagreb. In: basketball-bund.de. August 29, 2010, accessed December 5, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Germany first basketball world champion - and twice! In: basketball-bund.de. July 25, 2013, accessed December 5, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Senior basketball championship: flood of medals for the German team! In: basketball-bund.de. July 10, 2014, accessed December 5, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Michael Hohlfeld: Basketball women just missed the title . In: Berliner Zeitung . Volume 46, No. 86 , April 11, 1990, pp. 13 .
  14. ↑ a b c DBB mourns Birgit Menz. Deutscher Basketball Bund, November 23, 2019, accessed on November 24, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Georg Gulde: The thing with the footsteps - USC Eisvögel - Badische Zeitung. In: Badische Zeitung. October 11, 2008, accessed December 4, 2019 .
  16. ^ Website informationen-marburg.de ( memento from March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on February 22, 2014.
  17. ^ German Basketball Federation (ed.): DBB-Journal . Issue 7, February 2009, p. 26 ( basketball-bund.de [PDF]).
  18. ↑ Prize winners 1997 to 2018. (PDF) In: sportchemmy.de. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Michael Ulbrich: Surprised winners . In: Thüringische Landeszeitung . October 30, 2006 ( genios.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Menz, Birgit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eggert, Birgit; Blauert, Birgit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 22nd November 2019