Christian Künast

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GermanyGermany  Christian Künast Ice hockey player
Date of birth March 7, 1971
place of birth Landshut , Germany
size 180 cm
Weight 76 kg
position goalkeeper
Catch hand Left
Career stations
until 1996 EV Landshut
1996 Starbulls Rosenheim
1996-1997 Kaufbeurer eagle
1997-1998 Adler Mannheim
1998-1999 EV Landshut
1999-2002 Munich Barons
2002-2004 Hamburg Freezers
2004-2007 Hanover Scorpions

Christian Künast (born March 7, 1971 in Landshut ) is a former German ice hockey goalkeeper and has been the national coach of the German women's ice hockey team since 2019 .

Career

Christian Künast began his professional career in 1989 at EV Landshut and has since been active in the top German division. Here he came as second goalkeeper behind Bernhard Englbrecht and Petr Bříza until 1995 but only to a few missions and in 1995 moved to the Kaufbeurer Adlers , where he recommended himself for the national team.

In 1997 he moved to Mannheim again to the position of substitute goalkeeper, this time behind Mike Rosati , but won his first championship with the team . After winning the title, Künast returned to Landshut in 1998 and moved with the DEL team first to Munich and later to Hamburg . His second championship followed in Munich in 2000.

Christian Künast played from the DEL - 2004/05 season for Hannover Scorpions and ended his active career ahead of the 2007/08 season with the Scorpions, where he the post of assistant coach of two years' Hans Zach held.

Künast took part in two World Championships for Germany, in 1996 and 2001. In 2001 he was even number 1 in the German selection. At the Olympic Games in 2002 he was also part of the squad and made 2 games.

From November 30, 2011 until their relegation in spring 2013, he was the head coach of the Hanover Indians from the 2nd Bundesliga. From August 2013 to July 2015 he was the head coach of the youth teams at EHC Straubing . He then coached the men's U20 national team until the end of 2018. Since January 1, 2019, he has been coaching the German women's ice hockey team .

family

Künast is Marco Sturm's brother-in-law .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ idowa, Straubing Germany: appeal from former junior coach: DEL Straubing in danger? Christian Künast is ringing the alarm bells - idowa. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ idowa.de, EHC succeeds in a coup with the commitment of Christian Künast ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ DEB: Christian Künast new coach of the U20 national team. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .
  4. ^ German Ice Hockey Federation eV: New appointments in the women's area of ​​the DEB: Künast trains the national team, Busch the U18 selection. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Günter Klein: Two brothers-in-law, many friends and the common misery. In: welt.de . May 5, 2001, Retrieved May 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Künast, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Landshut