Carsten Fischer

This article is about the hockey player Carsten Fischer. For other people see Karsten Fischer .

Carsten "Calle" Fischer (born August 29, 1961 in Duisburg ) is a former German hockey player . Fischer became Olympic champion with the German national hockey team in 1992 and was a record German national player until he was replaced by Christian Mayerhöfer .

Life

Fischer started at the German record champions HTC Uhlenhorst Mülheim at the age of six . In 1981 he became European champion with the German junior national team, and in 1982 world champion. In 1984 in Los Angeles and 1988 in Seoul he was a member of the German national team, which won silver at the Olympic Games. Fischer, who lost his hair in 1991 as a result of severe diabetes (type 1 diabetic), led the German hockey team to win the gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona . After the Libero had already resigned, he celebrated his comeback in September 1995 and took part in his fourth Olympic Games in 1996 , where the German team only finished fourth.

In addition, he was European champion in 1991 and from 1988 to 1995 eight consecutive European championship champions with the HTC Uhlenhorst Mülheim. This record has not yet been set. Carsten Fischer is Germany's most successful hockey player and was also the record scorer with 154 goals in 259 international matches until he was replaced by Björn Michel.

Fischer was awarded the Georg von Opel Prize 2001 by a jury chaired by Franz Beckenbauer . The DHB President Christoph Wüterich recommended Fischer for this award because of his commitment to diabetes education.

Today, Carsten Fischer works as a senior physician for orthopedics and trauma surgery at the Elisabeth Hospital in Dorsten. After he had not found time for his dissertation during his active career, he was awarded a doctorate in medicine by the University of Hamburg in April 2010 after three years of effort in addition to his daily work in the clinic.

Web links

• "I didn't change my life to diabetes, I changed my life to diabetes!" (Interview with Carsten Fischer)