Daniel Stephan

Daniel Stephan

Daniel Stephan on October 13, 2007
Player information
birthday	3rd August 1973 (age 47)
place of birth	Rheinhausen , Germany
citizenship	German
height	1.98 m
Playing position	Back left
	Back center
Throwing hand	right
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1982-1994	OSC Rheinhausen
1994-2008	TBV Lemgo
National team
Debut on	May 14, 1994
against	Egypt
	Games (goals)
Germany	183 (590)
Status: national team December 23, 2007

Daniel Stephan (born August 3, 1973 in Rheinhausen ) is a former German handball player .

In his first years as a youth player, Daniel Stephan was at VfL Rheinhausen. In 1982 he then moved to OSC Rheinhausen . He stayed with the club until 1994. Then he went to TBV Lemgo , where he let his active handball career end in the 2007/2008 season.

Due to his bad luck with injuries, Stephan never played a game in a handball world championship . In 1995 he was in the squad, but was not used. In 1999 he was unable to participate because he was suffering from a fracture of the metacarpal bone. In 2001 his Achilles tendon was injured. In 2003 and 2005 Daniel Stephan was not there either. At the European Championships, however, he was all the more successful. There he took 3rd place in the all-time goalscorer list with 134 goals in a total of 32 games. Because of his never-ending series of injuries, he announced his resignation from the national team in 2005. For winning the silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Games, he received the Silver Laurel Leaf on March 16, 2005.

After he was active as a player in Lemgo for over 13 years, he was presented on November 14, 2007 as the sports director of TBV Lemgo. His expiring player contract continued to exist, so that he was available to TBV Lemgo as a player on demand until the end of the season. After failing to qualify for the Champions League in 2009 , Daniel Stephan was sacked together with coach Markus Baur in Lemgo.

On May 18th, 2008, his farewell game took place in the Lipperlandhalle in Lemgo. After Volker Zerbe, he is only the second Lemgoer to receive this honor. In this game, the selection "Daniels Champions" competed against the "TBV Allstars".

From July 1, 2010, Daniel Stephan worked as sports director for the second division club HSG Düsseldorf , with which he had signed a three-year contract. However, in March 2011 he asked for the contract to be terminated at the end of the season. The association complied with this request.

In 1998 Daniel Stephan was the first German handball player to be elected world handball player . He had his finest hour in the seven-meter throw of the 2004 Olympic quarter-finals against Spain when he scored at 32:30.

successes

His greatest successes were:

• German champion 1997 and 2003, with Lemgo
• DHB Cup winner 1995, 1997 and 2002, with Lemgo
• European Cup Winners' Cup 1996, with Lemgo
• EHF cup winner 2006, with Lemgo
• Silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens
• Bronze medal at the 1998 European Championships
• Silver medal at the 2002 European Championships
• European champion 2004
• DHB Supercup winner 1997
• Handball player of the year in Germany in 1997, 1998 and 1999
• World handball player 1998
• Awarded the Silver Bay Leaf 2005

Web links

Commons : Daniel Stephan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Daniel Stephan in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Daniel Stephan in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Daniel Stephan in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Interview of the Neue Westfälische with Daniel Stephan

Individual evidence

1. ↑ handball-statistik.de, Daniel Stephan , accessed on December 23, 2007
2. ↑ daniel-stephan.de, Career in Numbers , accessed on December 23, 2007 ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Press release of the Office of the Federal President of March 16, 2005 .... Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games ...
4. ↑ Lippische-Wochenschau.de from November 14, 2007, Stephan new sports director ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ faz.net of November 14, 2007, Stephan retires and becomes a manager in Lemgo
6. ↑ handball-world.com: TBV Lemgo and Daniel Stephan dissolve contract. February 5, 2010, accessed December 20, 2015 . 
7. ↑ daniel-stephan.de, Daniel Stephan becomes sports director in Düsseldorf ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ HSG Düsseldorf and Daniel Stephan go their separate ways ( memento of the original from March 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , handball-world.com on March 23, 2011