Christian Schulte

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Christian Schulte

Christian Schulte (born August 17, 1975 in Neuss ) is a German hockey goalkeeper . He was a member of the national team's senior squad from 1996 to 2009. During this time he completed more than 120 international matches.

Life

With the German national hockey team he was world and European champion in hall and field. In 2004 he won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Athens . In 2006 he reached 2nd place with the national team at the Champions Trophy and became world champion in Mönchengladbach. No nation had previously managed to defend its title. Also in 2006 he became German field hockey champion with the Crefeld HTC . At this championship he was chosen for the second time after 2003 for the "best goalkeeper" of the field hockey finals. On February 11, 2007 he added the title of German Indoor Champion 2007 to his track record with the Crefelder HTC, of ​​which he is an honorary member. A historic success was achieved in the final: As the only goalkeeper in a German indoor championship to date, he has not conceded a goal.

In May 2007 he won the European Hockey Club Sport crown. With the Crefeld HTC in the final of the European Cup of the national champions a 1-0 win against the Spanish champions ONO Atlètic Terrassa . Christian Schulte secured this result for the German national hockey team in the final of the Champions Trophy 2007 in Kuala Lumpur. This makes Germany the record winner of the prestigious competition (9 wins). Christian Schulte secured another success that is unique in Germany with the Crefelder HTC in February 2008, when the CHTC won the European Cup in the hall and, after Athletic Terrassa, was the second European team to achieve the double double in a championship cycle.

In March 2008, the German national team won the qualifying tournament for the Olympic Games in Beijing with Christian Schulte, with the goalkeepers Ulrich Bubolz and Christian Schulte conceding no goals in six games.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, Christian Schulte was registered as a P-accredited substitute for the German men's national hockey team and thus again part of Germany's Olympic team. He was not used in any game, but took part in all actions of the team before and during the Beijing Olympics. In the same year, Federal President Köhler awarded him the Silver Laurel Leaf .Due to his exemplary motivation, fairness and teamwork skills, he was appointed by the Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dr. Ingo Wolf MdL., Awarded the Sportstiftung NRW 2009 sponsorship award.

Stations as a player

National team successes as a player

  • 1997: 1st place, 8th European Indoor Championship for men, Lievin
  • 1999: 1st place, 9th European Indoor Championships Slagelse
  • 2002: 1st place 10th Men's World Championship Kuala Lumpur
  • 2002: 2nd place 24th Champions Trophy Men Cologne
  • 2002: 1st place 11th European Indoor Championships Santander
  • 2003: 1st place, 9th European Men's Championship, Barcelona
  • 2003: 1st place 1st indoor world championship in Leipzig
  • 2004: 3rd place Olympic Games Athens
  • 2005: 3rd place 10th European Men's Championship in Leipzig
  • 2006: 2nd place 28th Champions Trophy Men Terrassa
  • 2006: 1st place 11th Men's World Championship Mönchengladbach
  • 2007: 4th place, 11th European Men's Championship, Manchester
  • 2007: 1st place 29th Champions Trophy Men Kuala Lumpur
  • 2008: 1st place qualifying tournament for the Olympic Games in Beijing
  • 2008: 1st place Olympic Games in Beijing (P-accredited member of the Olympic team)
  • 2008: 1st place Hamburg Masters

Honors

  • 2004: Honorary member of the CHTC
  • 2007: Germany's hockey athlete of the year
  • 2008: Germany's team of the year
  • 2009: Sponsorship award from the Sportstiftung NRW for exemplary motivation, fairness and teamwork

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Google-Link Hockey.de: Krefelder Zeitung of September 7th, 2008: ..... Great honor for two hockey players of the Krefeld HTC: Witthaus and Christian Schulte awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf. ...
personal data
SURNAME Schulte, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuss