Carsten Keller (hockey player)
Carsten Keller (born September 8, 1939 in Berlin ) is a former German hockey player and Olympic champion . He played a total of 133 times for the German men's national hockey team .
Life
Even before he started school, Keller learned to use a hockey stick, as his father Erwin Keller won the silver medal at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin . He later became an insurance salesman.
Carsten Keller first took part in the Olympic Games in 1960 and came in seventh. Eight years later he finished fourth with the German team at the Mexico City games .
In 1972 in Munich he won the gold medal as the captain of the national team, thus ending Pakistan's long-standing dominance in this sport (the Pakistani players were banned for life because of unsportsmanlike conduct after the game and only pardoned years later on top of political intervention). After this victory, he retired from active sport as a record German national player and became a coach at the Berlin Hockey Club . In this role he won the German championship with youth teams twelve times. Carsten Keller works full-time as an independent general agent for an insurance group.
children
Three of his children are also Olympic medalists. His son Andreas won gold in Barcelona in 1992 and silver in Los Angeles in 1984 and in Seoul in 1988 . The daughter Natascha won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Games . Son Florian Keller won the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Games .
See also
literature
- National Olympic Committee for Germany: The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany. Munich, Kiel 1972 . Frankfurt am Main 1972
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article of the Dosb /
- ^ Andreas Wenderoth: Hockey: The Keller Family. In: zeit.de. September 2, 2004, accessed December 8, 2014 .
- ↑ www.netzeitung.de ( Memento from January 11, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keller, Carsten |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German hockey player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |