Dietmar Schmidt (handball player)

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Dietmar Schmidt
Player information
birthday April 29, 1952
place of birth Zwickau , GDR
citizenship GermanGerman German
height 1.81 m
Playing position Circular rotor
Club information
society BSV Sachsen Zwickau
Clubs as active
from ... to society
0000- Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR ASK forward Frankfurt
National team
  Games (goals)
Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR 242 (349)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to society
2006-2017 GermanyGermany Frankfurt HC
2019-2020 GermanyGermany Frankfurt HC
2020– GermanyGermany BSV Sachsen Zwickau

Status: July 3, 2020

Dietmar Schmidt (born April 29, 1952 in Zwickau ) is a German handball trainer and former handball player . His playing position was the circle .

Career

His parent club in the GDR league was the ASK Vorwärts Frankfurt , with which he was GDR champion twice: 1974 and 1975. In 1975 he won the European Cup . With the GDR national team , for which he played 242 international games and threw 349 goals, he was second in 1974 and third in 1978 at world championships. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , he led the GDR national team as team captain to Olympic victory. For this success he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In 1984 he received this gold medal.

From July 2006 Schmidt was a trainer at Frankfurt HC . He coached the women's Bundesliga team until the club went bankrupt in the summer of 2013 and the associated withdrawal from the Bundesliga. From the 2013/14 season he coached the former second team of the FHC, who played in the third division . After the 2016/17 season he resigned from his coaching position at the FHC. In October 2019, Schmidt took over the trainer position at the FHC again. Since the season 2020/21 he trains together with Norman Rentsch the BSV Sachsen Zwickau .

successes

  • 1980: Olympic champion in Moscow
  • 1974: 2nd place at the World Cup in the GDR
  • 1975: European Champion Clubs' Cup
  • 2 × GDR champions (1974 and 1975)

literature

  • Dietmar Schmidt in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
  • Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 3
  2. ^ New Germany, 1./2. September 1984, p. 4
  3. ↑ www.handball-world.news: Frankfurter HC: Olympic champion Schmidt stops as coach from May 17, 2017, accessed on June 2, 2017
  4. ↑ www.handball-world.news: Frankfurter HC with a surprising change of coach on October 30, 2019, accessed on October 30, 2019
  5. ↑ www.handball-world.news: Second division club BSV Sachsen Zwickau presents additional coach from July 3, 2020, accessed on July 3, 2020

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personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German handball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau