Christian Welp

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Basketball player
Christian Welp
Player information
Full name Christian Ansgar Welp
birthday 2nd January 1964
place of birth Delmenhorst , Germany
date of death March 1, 2015 at the age of 51
Place of death Hood Canal , Washington , USA
size 212 cm
position center
college University of Washington
NBA draft 1987 , 16th Pick, Philadelphia 76ers
Clubs as active
1982–1983 BC Giants 1983–1987 Washington Huskies 1987–1989 Philadelphia 76ers 1989–1990 San Antonio Spurs 1990 Golden State Warriors 1991–1996 Bayer Giants Leverkusen 1996–1997 Olympiacos 1997–1998 Alba Berlin 1998–1999 Viola Reggio CalabriaGermanyGermany
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National team
1984-1997 GermanyGermany Germany 106 games
Christian Welp medal table

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gold 1993 Germany Germany

Christian Ansgar Welp (born January 2, 1964 in Delmenhorst , † March 1, 2015 in Hood Canal , Washington ) was a German basketball player and coach.

career

Welp started basketball in Osnabrück in 1974 , trained and played as a teenager at the local Post SV and then moved to the BC Giants' A youth team . His first club in the German Bundesliga , from 1982 to 1983, was the BC Giants Osnabrück.

In 1982 he went to the United States to the Olympic High School in Silverdale (Washington), from 1983 he played together with Detlef Schrempf at the University of Washington for the "Huskies" college team.

After a successful college period, the Philadelphia 76ers selected him in 16th place in the 1987 NBA Draft , where Welp played until 1989. He then worked for the San Antonio Spurs (1989 to 1990) and for the Golden State Warriors in Oakland . He came to a total of 109 NBA games with an average of 3.3 points per encounter. A knee injury slowed his career in the NBA. In 1991 Welp accepted an offer from Bayer 04 Leverkusen . He later played for Olympiacos Piraeus (Greece), for Alba Berlin and finally until 1999 for Viola Reggio Calabria (Italy).

Welp won the German basketball championship six times between 1991 and 1996 and 1998 . He won the cup in 1991, 1993 and 1995 and won the Europa League with Olympiacos in 1997 .

In the Bundesliga, Welp has scored a total of 2742 points over the years. His teammate Henning Harnisch described Welp as a "complete center of the old school", who sometimes seemed clumsy because of his height, but hit with throws under the basket as well as from the middle and long distance. Welp was considered unapproachable and closed, according to Harnisch he was also joking in the team and had put on a protective shield in public.

The 2.12 meter tall center became a "legend" on July 4, 1993 in Munich, when it equalized with a dunk in the EM final against Russia at 68:70 despite fouls , hit the subsequent free throw and Germany won the European Championship led. He was then voted player of the tournament.

Welp was the assistant coach of the German national team from 2004 to 2006 and lived near Seattle , where he worked in the construction industry and at Edmonds Community College as an assistant coach of the basketball team.

He died of a heart attack on March 1, 2015, at the age of 51 in his vacation home in the village of Holly on the Hood Canal , not far from Seattle. He left his wife and two sons and a daughter.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ These are our 12 giants . Sport Bild , June 23, 1993, p. 32 f.
  2. ↑ http://archive.kitsapsun.com/sports/olympic-washington-basketball-great-welp-dies-ep-964541651-354882171.html/
  3. ↑ https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/w/welpch01.html
  4. ↑ a b Henning Harnisch: A quiet big one . In: Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Cologne, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 , pp. 142, 143 .
  5. ↑ The 200 best basket hunters in the Bundesliga since 1975 . In: Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Cologne, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 , pp. 212 .
  6. ↑ Christian Welp's profile - 1993 European Championship for Men. ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Archived from: FIBA ​​website; Mies, Switzerland, (2015) (in English).
  7. ↑ Alexander Goebel: Sport: basketball . Deutsche Welle, accessed on March 2, 2015.
  8. ↑ http://www.schoenen-dunk.de/news_a5880_DBB_Kuczmann-und-Welp-assistieren-Bauermann.htm
  9. ↑ http://www.basketball-bund.de/news/teams/a-herren/bauermann-nominiert-13er-kader-fuer-china-reise-11441
  10. ↑ https://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/sport/article102374705/Was-aus-den-EM-Helden-wurde.html
  11. ↑ http://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/Where-Are-They-Now-Christian-Welp-1133941.php
  12. ↑ Chuck Stark: Welp left a big impact during his time in Kitsap. On: Kitsap Sun website; McLean, VA, March 4, 2015. Retrieved December 3, 2018 (in English).
  13. ^ Bud Withers: UW great Christian Welp died at Hood Canal vacation home, friend says. In: The Seattle Times of March 2, 2015 (accessed March 5, 2015).
  14. ↑ German basketball legend dies at the age of 51 . In: Die Welt from March 2, 2015 (accessed on March 2, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Welp, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Welp, Christian Ansgar (full name); Welp, Chris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd January 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Delmenhorst
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 2015
Place of death Holly , Washington , United States