Christian Dünnes

Christian Dünnes
Christian Dünnes 2009
portrait
Date of birth	June 16, 1984
place of birth	Siegen, Germany
size	2.10 m
position	Universal
societies
1994–2000 2000–2002 2002–2004 2004–2005 2005–2009 2009–2011 2011–2013 2013–2014 2014–2015 2015–2017	TV Dresselltorf Volleyball Boarding School Frankfurt VC Olympia Berlin evivo Düren Copra Piacenza evivo Düren Generali Haching VfB Friedrichshafen Berlin Recycling Volleys United Volleys Rhein-Main
National team
65 missions for the	Junior national team A national team
successes
2005 2006 2007 2009 2010 2012 2012 2012 2013 2014 2014 2015	German runners-up Winner Top Teams Cup Italian runners-up Italian champions World Cup eighth MVP Bundesliga German runners-up Olympic fifth German cup winners German cup winners German runners-up German runners-up
As of March 2, 2017

Christian Dünnes (born June 16, 1984 in Siegen ) is a German national volleyball player .

Career

Dünnes began his career at the local TV Dresselnorf. For his further education he switched to the volleyball boarding school in Frankfurt . There he was signed by VC Olympia Berlin and played his first games in the first Bundesliga .

With the German offspring, he reached fifth place at the 2001 European Youth Championship and eighth place at the 2003 Junior World Championship.

In 2004 a short stage at evivo Düren followed before a serious knee injury forced a long break. On the recommendation of the German national coach Stelian Moculescu , who knew Dünnes from over 60 youth and junior international matches , the universal player switched to the Italian first division club Copra Piacenza in 2005 , with whom he won the European Top Teams Cup in 2006 . In 2006, Dünnes made his debut in the senior national team .

After four years in the Italian league, Dünnes returned to the volleyball Bundesliga club evivo Düren in 2009. The volleyball magazine jury voted him the “most valuable player” and the best attacking player of the 2009/10 Bundesliga season . In 2011 he moved to Generali Haching and was German runner-up in the 2011/12 season. In addition, Dünnes was honored as the MVP (Most Valuable Player) of the season. At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , Dünnes reached fifth place with the national team. In the 2012/13 season he won the DVV Cup with Haching. Then Dünnes moved to league competitor VfB Friedrichshafen , where he won the cup again in 2014 . Then he was hired by the German champion Berlin Recycling Volleys . Both in the playoff final of the Bundesliga , which was only decided after five games, and in the quarterfinals of the DVV Cup , the Berliners had to admit defeat to VfB Friedrichshafen. In 2015, Dünnes moved to the newly promoted United Volleys Rhein-Main . He temporarily returned to the national team for the qualifying tournament for the 2016 Olympic Games . With the Frankfurters he reached third place in the league and the cup semi-finals twice . In 2017, Dünnes ended his professional career and became the new sports director of the German Volleyball Association .

Web links

• Profile at the United Volleys Rhein-Main
• Christian Dünnes in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile at legavolley.it (Italian)
• Ranking lists: 2005 ( memento of March 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 229 kB) - 2010 (PDF; 546 kB) - 2011 (PDF; 459 kB) - 2012 (PDF; 388 kB) - 2013 ( memento of 27 July 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 260 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ From cup winners to champions. Berlin Recycling Volleys, June 18, 2014, accessed on July 26, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Volleyball Bundesliga, well- known reinforcements for volleyball promoted Rüsselsheim
3. ↑ Why Christian Dünnes is only returning for the Olympic qualification. The West , January 5, 2016, accessed January 27, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Christian Dünnes becomes the new DVV sports director for volleyball. DVV, January 27, 2017, accessed on January 27, 2017 .