Christiane Fürst

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Christiane Fürst

European Championship 2013
Date of birth	March 29, 1985
place of birth	Dresden , GDR
size	1.93 m
position	Middle block
societies
1995–2007 2007–2009 2009–2010 2010–2011 2011–2014 2014–2016 2016–2018	Dresdner SC Scavolini Pesaro Foppapedretti Bergamo Fenerbahçe A. Istanbul Vakıfbank Güneş Sigorta İstanbul Eczacıbaşı Istanbul Denso Airybees Japan
National team
until 2003 345 times for the	Youth national team A national team
successes
2001 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2008 2009 2010 2010 2011 2011 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2014 2014 2015 2015 2017	Youth Olympic champion European Championship third 9th place Olympic Games Athens 11th place World Cup in Japan German champion Italian champion CEV cup winner Italian champion Champions League winner 7th place World Cup in Japan Turkish champion Vice European champion Turkish cup winner Champions League winner Turkish champion Winner Europaliga Vice European Champion Turkish Cup Winner Turkish Champion Champions League Winner Club World Champion Japanese Cup Winner
As of May 9, 2017

Christiane Fürst (* 29. March 1985 in Dresden , East Germany) is a former German Volleyball - national player .

Career

Christiane Fürst has played for Dresdner SC since 1995 , initially in the youth, from autumn 2002 at the age of 17 in the first team. In 2007 she won the German championship with the club and then left for Italy. At the international level, she was initially successful with the youth national team and won the 2001 Olympic youth tournament. In 2003 she was nominated for the European Championship in Turkey without any international match experience and reached third place. With her achievements she established herself in the senior national team . A year later she took part in the Olympic Games in Athens after the “Miracle of Baku ” . At the 2006 World Cup in Japan, the middle blocker was the best player of the tournament in her position. Nevertheless, the team only finished eleventh. In summer 2007 she won the European Grand Prix qualification with the team and finished sixth at the European Championships in Belgium and Luxembourg. At the 2009 European Championships in Poland, she reached fourth place with the national team and was named the best block player in the tournament. At the 2010 World Cup she reached seventh place and was again the best block player of the tournament.

Attack in the 2014 Europa League game against Spain

Since October 2007, Fürst has played for the top Italian club Scavolini Pesaro . In her first year in Italy, she reached the Italian Cup final with her new team, where she was named the best player in the cup final. The club also won the CEV European Cup and the Italian championship against Perugia with the German attacker Hanka Pachale . Fürst was also named the best attacker at the CEV final tournament. The following year the club repeated the championship triumph.

In 2009 the fans voted Christiane Fürst volleyball player of the year .

In the 2009/10 season Christiane Fürst played for Foppapedretti Bergamo , where she won the Champions League . She then moved to Turkey to Fenerbahçe Acibadem Istanbul , where she became Turkish champion in 2011. Then she moved to local rivals Vakıfbank Güneş Sigorta İstanbul . With the national team she became vice European champion in October 2011 . In the 2012/13 season Fürst won the Turkish Cup, the Champions League and the Turkish Championship with Istanbul after 47 wins in a row . With the national team, she took first place in the Europa League in 2013 and was again vice European champion . In 2014, Fürst again won the double from the Turkish championship and cup victory and reached the final in the Champions League , where she lost to the Russian club VK Dynamo Kazan with Istanbul . She then moved to local rivals Eczacıbaşı Istanbul .

On January 6, 2015, Fürst announced her retirement from the German national team after 345 international matches. In April 2015, Fürst won the Champions League with Eczacıbaşı Istanbul and the Club World Cup in May . In January 2016, she had a short comeback in the national team, with which she missed qualifying for the Olympic Games in Rio da Janeiro in Ankara . In the summer of 2016, Fürst moved to the Japanese second division club Denso Airybees, with whom she was promoted to the first division in 2017 and won the Japanese Cup.

Fürst ended her career in 2018.

In November 2019, Fürst becomes managing director of VC Olympia Dresden and head of the federal volleyball base in Dresden.

Private

Fürst holds a master's degree in history and linguistics. She is a distance learning student in business administration and business psychology. She lives in Dresden and has a son.

Web links

Commons : Christiane Fürst - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Christiane Fürst in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Portrait at DVV
Ranking lists: 2003 (PDF; 385 kB) ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) - 2004 (PDF; 170 kB) ( Memento from March 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) - 2005 (PDF; 80 kB) - 2006 ( PDF; 64 kB) ( Memento from March 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) - 2007 (PDF; 380 kB)

Individual evidence

↑ DVV women: Christiane Fürst ends selection career. (No longer available online.) DVV, January 6, 2015, archived from the original on January 10, 2015 ; accessed on January 9, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Prince, Christiane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German national volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH	March 29, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden , German Democratic Republic

[1] DVV women: Christiane Fürst ends selection career. (No longer available online.) DVV, January 6, 2015, archived from the original on January 10, 2015 ; accessed on January 9, 2015 .