Britta Büthe

Britta Büthe
Britta Büthe 2016
portrait
birthday	May 25, 1988
place of birth	Dearborn, Michigan, United States
size	1.85 m
Partner	2004–2006 Katrin Naumer 2004–2009 Tanja Scheuer 2006–2009 Svenja Engelhardt 2009 Maria Kleefisch 2009 Julia Großner 2008–2016 Karla Borger
society	MTV Stuttgart
successes
2005 - German U19 champion 2006 - U19 World Cup third 2009 - U23 European champion 2010 - Student world champion 2011 - Winner Universiade 2011 - DM third 2011 - FIVB Rookie of the Year 2013 - Vice world champion 2013 - DM third 2014 - Third Grand Slam Berlin 2014 - Second Grand Slam Gstaad 2014 - German Champion 2015 - Winner Luzern Open 2016 - Third Grand Slam Rio 2016 - European Championship third 2016 - Third Poreč Major 2016 - Olympic ninth 2016 - German Championship third
(As of 2016)

Britta Büthe (born May 25, 1988 in Dearborn , Michigan ) is a former German beach volleyball player . She won the Universiade in 2011 and became vice world champion in 2013. In 2014 she became German champion and in 2016 she took part in the Olympic Games.

Career

DKB Beach Cup 2011

Büthe became German U19 champion in 2005 in Kiel-Schilksee with Katrin Naumer. In 2006 she won the bronze medal at the U19 World Cup in Bermuda with Svenja Engelhardt . At the Junior World Championship in Brighton in 2008 she finished fifth with Karla Borger . In 2009 she won the U23 European Championship in Jantarny with Julia Großner . Since 2010 Büthe, who was promoted to the second Bundesliga as an indoor volleyball player with the second team of MTV Stuttgart in 2011 , has played with Borger. In June 2010 the duo became student world champions in Alanya . At the U23 European Championships in Kos Borger / Büthe reached ninth place. On the World Tour they came in 17th place in Phuket . In 2011, she climbed to 13th place in Mysłowice , before finishing ninth in the top ten for the first time in the Grand Slam in Beijing . They achieved the same result at the Grand Slams in Gstaad and Stare Jabłonki. They also won the Challenger tournament in Seoul and the Masters in Niechorze . However, Borger / Büthe celebrated their greatest success so far at the Universiade in Shenzhen , which they won in the final against the Americans Hughes / Day . In the German championship they came third. At the end of the year, Büthe was named “Rookie of the Year” by the FIVB .

In 2012 Borger / Büthe started with three 17th places at the Brasília and Sanya Open as well as the Grand Slam in Shanghai . At the European Championships in Scheveningen they came third in the group and reached the quarter-finals by beating German competitors Sara Goller and Laura Ludwig , in which they had to admit defeat to the later third-placed Liliana / Baquerizo . At the Grand Slam in Rome, like at the European Championship, she was fifth. As ninth in Gstaad and Stare Jabłonki, they achieved further top ten results. They finished the German championship in fifth place.

They started the 2013 season with 17th place in Fuzhou . Then they finished ninth in Shanghai and fifth in Corrientes . They won the tournament in Hamburg on the national Smart Beach Tour . At the World Cup in Stare Jabłonki , they reached the knockout phase as group winners and, with four more victories, were the first Europeans to reach a World Cup final. They lost this in the tiebreak against the Chinese Xue Chen and Zhang Xi . Due to an injury, Büthe missed the European Championships in Klagenfurt and the Grand Slam in Berlin. Borger / Büthe finished ninth in Moscow and São Paulo . In the German championship in 2013 they finished third.

On the World Tour 2014 they consistently achieved top ten placements, initially two fifth places at the Grand Slam in Shanghai and the Prague Open. At the EM in Quartu Sant'Elena they reached the knockout phase as second in the group. After two more victories, there was a German duel in the quarterfinals, which Borger / Büthe lost to Ludwig / Walkenhorst. At the Grand Slams in Moscow and Berlin, they finished fifth and third. In Gstaad they played in a German final against Ilka Semmler and Katrin Holtwick and had to admit defeat in two sets. The Grand Slam in The Hague was the only international tournament that year that they didn't finish in the top ten. This was followed by ninth places in Long Beach and Stare Jabłonki and a fifth place in Klagenfurt . With a final victory against Ludwig / Sude, Borger / Büthe won their first national title at the German championship in 2014 . Then they also won the CEV Satellite in Stuttgart . They finished the international season with a ninth place in São Paulo.

In May 2015, Borger / Büthe won the final at the Lucerne Open against the Dutch Meppelink / van Iersel and thus achieved their first tournament victory on the World Tour. After a 25th place in the Grand Slam in Moscow, they achieved top ten results again as fifth in the Poreč and Stavanger majors and fourth in the Grand Slam in Saint Petersburg . At the World Cup in the Netherlands , they were the best of three teams with equal points in their preliminary group, but were eliminated in the first knockout round against Canadians Pavan / Bansley . There was also a 17th place in the Gstaad Major. After finishing ninth in the Grand Slam in Yokohama, Borger suffered from a blockage of the hip joint that she sustained at the previous Grand Prix in Yokohama. Therefore, she could not play with Britta Büthe for the last group game. The European Championship ended prematurely for the German duo. At the Grand Slam in Olsztyn , Büthe competed with Katharina Schillerwein . In the German championship she played with Lisa Arnholdt and came in seventh.

Karla Borger (left) with Britta Büthe (right) 2016

At the beginning of 2016 Borger / Büthe came back to the FIVB World Tour with a fifth place at the Maceió Open . They finished third at the Grand Slam in Rio de Janeiro . In the following open tournaments they reached four fifth and one ninth place. They also finished fifth at the Grand Slam in Moscow. In the preliminary round and in the second round of the European Championship in Biel / Bienne , they defeated the competitors from Austria and Switzerland before they prevailed against Semmler / Holtwick in the German quarter-finals. The semi-final defeat against Sluková / Hermannová made them third and won the first European Championship medal of their career. After a ninth place at the Hamburg Major, they won the German duel for third place against Ludwig / Walkenhorst at the major tournament in Poreč . Then they finished ninth in Gstaad and fifth in Klagenfurt. As the seventh best team in the Olympic rankings, they qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . There they came third in the group via the playoff round "Lucky Loser" in the round of 16, in which they had to admit defeat to the Brazilian Larissa / Talita, who were in first place. With that they finished the tournament in ninth place. They then finished fifth in the Grand Slam in Long Beach . At the German championship they lost to the Olympic champions Ludwig / Walkenhorst in the semifinals and won the game for third place against Gernert / Zautys . After the tournament Büthe ended her career in order to concentrate on her studies.

Web links

Commons : Britta Büthe  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Results list at the DVV
• Portrait at beach-volleyball.de
• Profile at the world association FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• Britta Büthe in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A successful reunion. (No longer available online.) Stuttgarter Nachrichten , June 28, 2010, archived from the original on August 5, 2016 ; accessed on August 6, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Universiade: Borger / Büthe win the gold medal. (No longer available online.) Volleyballer.de, August 20, 2011, archived from the original on August 5, 2016 ; accessed on August 5, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Borger / Büthe miss world titles. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 6, 2013, accessed on August 5, 2016 . 
4. ↑ A mega success. Volleyball Magazine, August 2013, accessed August 5, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Beach Volleyball EM: Karla Borger and Britta Büthe end the EM 2015 in Klagenfurt prematurely due to injury. volleyballer.de, July 30, 2015, accessed August 6, 2016 . 
6. ^ Büthe and Popp with substitute partners for the DM. Beach-volleyball.de, September 1, 2015, accessed on September 7, 2015 . 
7. ^ Bye bye, Britta Büthe. beach-volleyball.de, September 10, 2016, accessed on September 10, 2016 .