Dirk Klingenberg

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Dirk Klingenberg

Dirk Klingenberg (born July 23, 1969 in Duisburg ) is a former German water polo player .

Athletic career

Klingenberg is nationally considered the best water polo player of the 1990s . His career began in 1980 at ASC Duisburg . From there he moved to Duisburger SV 98 in 1981 . In 1991 he went to Berlin, where he played for Wasserfreunde Spandau 04 . During this time Klingenberg won 17 national titles and was also the top scorer in the 1995/96 and 97/98 Bundesliga water polo season. As a national player of the German national team, he played 190 international games and took part in the 1996 Olympic Gamespart. He was active spokesman for the national water polo team in 1998 and was appointed to the World All-Star team in 1999. For private and professional reasons Klingenberg went to Düsseldorf and led the Düsseldorfer SC to promotion to the first division in the 1999/2000 season.

successes

Success with Spandau
  • German champion: 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
  • German Cup Champion: 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999
  • German Super Cup winner: 1997
Success with the national team
  • European Youth Championship: 3rd place (1985)
  • Junior World Championship: 3rd place (1989)
  • Military World Championship: 1st place (1989)
  • European Championship: 7th place (1991), 9th place (1993), 3rd place (1995)
  • Good-Will-Games: 2nd place (1994)
  • World Championship: 9th place (1994)
  • Olympic Games: 9th place (1996)

Professional career

In addition to his activities as a competitive athlete, Klingenberg's focus was on his professional career. The experiences from his time as an active athlete served him for his daily work according to the motto “from sport for sport”. From 1999 to 2008 he worked in the sports marketing department at Deutsche Telekom AG as Head of Communication Marketing and Events. His professional career ranges from the Olympic Games to the Tour de France to the 2006 World Cup, from basketball and rowing to sponsoring FC Bayern Munich. After 15 years of professional experience on the corporate side, he set up his own agency in 2009 and has since worked as an independent consultant for companies in his company Klingenberg Sportconsulting GmbH. Klingenberg is also a lecturer at a Cologne media college. He is available as an advisor to the water polo team Germany. The Berlin agency group Exit-Network Holding has been involved in the sports marketing agency Klingenberg Sportconsulting GmbH from Cologne since March 2014 . At the same time, Dirk Klingenberg moves into the management of the subsidiary Exit-Media GmbH .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Kölmel: At the height of his career in the second division. In: Berliner Zeitung . July 29, 1999, accessed June 8, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Dirk Klingenberg in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
  3. ↑ Wasserball-Team-Deutschland.de
personal data
SURNAME Klingenberg, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German water polo player
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg