Danja Müsch
| Danja Müsch | |
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| portrait | |
| birthday | April 14, 1971 |
| place of birth | Kassel , Germany |
| size | 1.79 m |
| Indoor volleyball | |
| position | External attack |
| societies | |
| 1984- -1992 1992-1994 |
SSC Vellmar TV Creglingen USC Münster |
| National team | |
| 45 times | A national team |
| successes | |
| 1994 - CEV Cup winner | |
| beach volleyball | |
| Partner |
Beate Bühler Maike Friedrichsen Jana Vollmer Susanne Lahme |
| society | VC Olympia Berlin |
| successes | |
1994 - European champion 1995 - 3rd place EM 1995 - German champion 1996 - Vice-EM 1996 - multiple World Tour finalist 1996 - Olympic participant Atlanta 1997 - German champion 1997 - World Tour finalist 1997 - Beach volleyball player of the year 1998 - Beach volleyball player of the year 1999 - German champion 1999 - Beach volleyball player of the year 2000 - Vice-EM 2000 - Olympic participant Sydney 2001 - German champion 2003 - World Tour finalist 2004 - World Tour finalist 2004 - Olympic participant Athens 2004 - Beach volleyball player des year 2005 - German champion   |
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| As of June 5, 2012 | |
Danja Müsch (born April 14, 1971 in Kassel ) is a former German volleyball and beach volleyball player . She was European and German champion and took part in the Olympic Games three times . She is currently working in marketing for the Japanese sporting goods manufacturer ASICS.
Athletic career
Müsch started playing volleyball indoors at SSC Vellmar in 1984 . After a stopover at TV Creglingen , she played for USC Münster from 1992 , with which she won the CEV Cup in 1994 . For the national team , she completed 45 internationals. At the side of Beate Bühler , Müsch became European champion in her first beach season in 1994. In 1995 she won the German championship in Timmendorfer Strand for the first time . In the following year it was only enough to take third place nationally, but there were some successes internationally. The duo Bühler / Müsch reached the final of the European Championships , made it to the finals of the World Tour three times (Italy, Indonesia and Belgium) and took seventh place at the Olympic Games in Atlanta . After that, Müsch changed her partner. With Maike Friedrichsen she won the German championship and a second place at the World Tour tournament in Japan in the first season . After a third place in 1998, the duo repeated their national success in 1999. In addition, Müsch was named beach volleyball player of the year from 1997 to 1999 . At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney she reached ninth place. In 2001 she celebrated her last triumph as German champion with Maike Friedrichsen. Then she formed a duo with Susanne Lahme and reached the final of the national championship in 2002 and third place in 2003. At the 2003 World Tour she reached the final in Lianyungang . In 2004 she did the same in Mallorca and saw her third Olympic tournament in Athens , which she finished in ninth place. She was also voted beach volleyball player of the year for the fourth time . After her fifth title in the German championship , she ended her career as a player.
reporter
Between 2007 and 2010, Müsch worked as a reporter for the sports broadcaster sportdigital.tv , which between the 2007/08 and 2009/10 seasons broadcasted volleyball Bundesliga games in addition to handball and basketball .
Private
Danja Muesch lives with her family in the Rhineland.
Web links
- Portrait on beach-volleyball.de
- Placements by Danja Müsch
- FIVB profile
- Ranking list 1993 (PDF file; 2.1 MB)
- Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
- Danja Müsch in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Müsch, Danja |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German beach volleyball player and trainer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |