Bogdan Wenta
Bogdan Wenta (2010) |
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Player information | |
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birthday | November 19, 1961 |
place of birth | Szpęgawsk , Poland |
citizenship | Polish / German |
height | 1.95 m |
Playing position | Back left |
Throwing hand | right |
Clubs as active | |
from ... to | society |
1978-1989 | Wybrzeże Gdańsk |
1989-1993 | Bidasoa Irun |
1993-1995 | FC Barcelona |
1995-2000 | TuS Nettelstedt |
2000-2002 | SG Flensburg-Handewitt |
National team | |
Games (goals) | |
Poland Germany |
185 (763) 50 (144) |
Clubs as coaches | |
from ... to | society |
2002-2006 | Co-trainer SG Flensburg-Handewitt |
2006-2007 | SC Magdeburg |
2004–2012 | Polish national team |
2008–1 / 2014 | KS Vive Kielce |
As of January 16, 2015 |
Bogdan Brunon Wenta (born November 19, 1961 in Szpęgawsk , Poland ) is a Polish politician and a former national handball player and coach . After his naturalization in the Federal Republic of Germany, he also competed for the German national handball team . In the 2014 European elections in Poland , he won a seat on the list of the liberal-conservative Civic Platform (PO). He has been the mayor of Kielce since 2018 .
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At the top Polish club Wybrzeże Gdańsk his career began as one of the best backcourt players of his time. He stayed with the club for eleven years (1978 to 1989). During this time five championship titles fall (1984 to 1988) and two appearances in the final for the European Cup in 1986 and 1987. In 1989 he moved to Spain, where he only played for four years at Bidasoa Irún and then went to FC Barcelona . In 1995 he moved to Germany to TuS Nettelstedt . After 185 international matches for the Polish national handball team , he resigned in 1997 and applied for German citizenship . His goal was to take part in the Olympic Games once. He then played for Germany at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney . Wenta played a total of 50 games for Germany. In 2000 he changed clubs one last time and joined the SG Flensburg-Handewitt . Before the 2002/03 season, he ended his active career at the age of 41. Since Flensburg complained of several injury-related failures in November 2005, Wenta was used again in a European Cup game against Paris HB .
After the end of his active career, he became assistant trainer at SG Flensburg-Handewitt . In the summer of 2006, he followed Bernd-Uwe Hildebrandt's call and took over the position of head coach at SC Magdeburg as the successor to Alfreð Gíslason . Here he was given leave of absence in November 2007. He then trained the KS Vive Kielce . In his first season he won the championship and cup double. In January 2014 he took over the post of club manager. His successor as coach in Kielce was Talant Dujshebaev .
From November 2004, Wenta also trained the Polish national handball team , which made it to the World Cup final (2007) for the first time under his leadership . In the final, however, his team lost to the German selection with 24:29. In autumn 2007 his team won the top-class Supercup in Germany. After Poland failed to qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games, he resigned in April 2012.
On February 5, 2007 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order Polonia Restituta by Lech Kaczyński for his sporting achievements.
In February 2014 he was nominated as a candidate for the European Parliament by the ruling Civic Platform under Prime Minister Donald Tusk . On May 25, 2014, he was elected MEP . 2018 he was elected Mayor of Kielce selected. He prevailed in the runoff election with 61.3% of the vote against Wojciech Lubawski, who has been in office since 2002. In the 8th European Parliament, Bogusław Sonik succeeded him .
Achievements and Awards
- as a player
- Polish champion: 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 (with Wybrzeże Gdańsk)
- Spanish Royal Cup: 1991 (with Bidasoa Irún), 1994 (with FC Barcelona)
- Copa Asobal: 1995 (with FC Barcelona)
- European Cup Winners' Cup: 1994, 1995 (with FC Barcelona), 2001 (with SG Flensburg-Handewitt)
- European "City Cup": 1997, 1998 (with TuS N-Lübbecke)
- as a trainer
- Second place at the Handball World Cup 2007 in Germany
- Third place at the 2009 World Handball Championship in Croatia
- 5th place at the 2008 Olympic Games
- First place at the QS Supercup 2007
- EHF Cup winner 2007
- Polish champion 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013
- Polish Cup Winner 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
- Awards
- Carrier of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Knight), awarded in 2007
Web links
- Bogdan Wenta in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
- Bogdan Wenta in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Entry on Bogdan Wenta in the European Parliament 's database of MEPs
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ósma kadencja Parlamentu | Bogdan Brunon WENTA | Posłowie do PE | Parliament Europejski. Retrieved March 16, 2019 (Polish).
- ↑ Wenta to cudotwórca ze Szpęgawska.
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Bogdan Venta, in: gazeta.pl on May 26, 2014.
- ↑ Naturalized athletes: Bogdan Wenta.
- ↑ National team - naturalized athletes: Bogdan Wenta.
- ↑ enemy squads SG Flensburg-Handewitt 2000/2001 season on archiv.thw-handball.de, accessed on 29 March 2018th
- ↑ THW meets Flensburg and Kolding at the Jacob-Cement-Cup on Saturday at archiv.thw-handball.de, accessed on March 29, 2018.
- ↑ Champions League: 31:33 defeat in the "Paris training game" .
- ↑ handball-world.com: A bang in Kielce: Dujshebaev and Wenta now together at the helm on January 8, 2014, accessed on January 8, 2014.
- ↑ Bogdan Wenta resigns as coach of the Polish national team.
- ↑ Bogdan Wenta: Filozof szczypiorniaka ( Memento from April 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ).
- ↑ Bogdan Wenta kandydatem Platformy Obywatelskiej do Parlamentu Europejskiego , eurosport.onet.pl on February 13, 2014.
- ↑ Bogdan Wenta (PO), onet.pl on May 26, 2014 ( Memento of May 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Ex-handball player now mayor. In: nwzonline.de . November 8, 2018, accessed November 8, 2018 .
- ↑ The election results on the website of the election commission, accessed on July 29, 2020.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wenta, Bogdan |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wenta, Bogdan Brunon (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Polish handball player and coach as well as politician (PO), MEP |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1961 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Szpęgawsk , Poland |