Dieter Pürschel
Dieter Pürschel (born February 7, 1941 in Weißwasser / Oberlausitz ) is a former German ice hockey goalkeeper . He was in the goal of the GDR national team 37 times and was an Olympic participant in Grenoble in 1968 .
Sport activity
Pürschel played for SG Dynamo Weißwasser and from 1963 to 1970 for SC Dynamo Berlin .
In the only Olympic participation of a GDR team in 1968 , Dieter Pürschel was set up as goalkeeper. The participants from the performance centers Berlin , Weißwasser , Crimmitschau and Rostock reached the final round. In the course of the games they lost a lot and finished last without a point. The domestic German duel ended with 2: 4. In the overall ranking of the Olympic tournament this meant 8th place. After six games, Pürschel had blocked 141 shots and conceded 31 goals; its catch quota was 81.9%.
Dieter Pürschel is a "master of sports", he had to end his career as a player at the age of 29 because of a sport-political reorientation of GDR competitive sport (promotion of figure skating and speed skating at the expense of ice hockey promotion) and then switched to speed skating as a coach .
Web links
- Dieter Pürschel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Dieter Pürschel at rodi-db.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berlin Olympians 1896 - 2008
- ↑ Ice hockey at the Olympic Games with special consideration of the participation of Germany. 1st edition Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-638-71780-1 , p. 67ff.
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| SURNAME | Pürschel, Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ice hockey goalkeeper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weißwasser / Upper Lusatia |