Dirk Schimmelpfennig

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Dirk Schimmelpfennig, 2018

Dirk Schimmelpfennig (born April 19, 1962 in Hürth ) has been the Board Member of Competitive Sports at the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) since March 1, 2015.

Career

Dirk Schimmelpfennig played with the TTC Brauweiler club in the upper and regional leagues. In 1978 he began working as a trainer in the Cologne area. Until 1983 he trained the youth of the DJK Hürth club, after which he supervised a talent scouting project in Pulheim / Brauweiler for six years. After graduating from Ernst-Mach-Gymnasium Hürth (1981), he began a double degree. In 1989, while studying economics at the German Sport University in Cologne, he obtained his diploma as a sports teacher. Parallel to his studies, he had also worked as a freelance trainer at the DTTB, the West German Table Tennis Association WTTV and in Luxembourg. In addition, he was temporarily involved in the youth work at Borussia Düsseldorf . In 1988 he helped the TSG Dülmen women's team to move up to the 1st Bundesliga . From 1989 to 1990 he was the national coach of Luxembourg.

In 1991, Schimmelpfennig started working for the DTTB and replaced Istvan Korpa as the national women's trainer. Under his leadership, the German women's team became European champions in 1996 and a year later bronze medalists at the world championships . In 1996, the DTTB also assigned him the task of elite sport coordinator, after which he was responsible for the coordination and conception in the entire adult area as well as for the newly established support group for female and male young players . Martin Adomeit was placed at his side . In 1998 he took over as the successor to Glenn Östh, the post of national coach for the men, who under his leadership were first in the European league in 1999 and 2000 and reached the final at the 2000 European championship . In 2000 he was restructured by the DTTB head coach, and in 2007 DTTB sports director. In June 2011 he was accepted into the DTTB Presidium as a member with an advisory vote.

When the DTTB nominated four native Chinese women for the 2013 European Championship, this was heavily criticized according to media reports. Schimmelpfennig rejected the criticism with the sentence "We do not differentiate between German and German". Performance alone counts.

On March 1, 2015, he gave up the office of DTTB sports director and became director of competitive sports at the German Olympic Sports Confederation DOSB . In this position he was the sports director of the German Olympic team Rio 2016 and Chef de Mission of the Olympic Team Germany Pyeongchang 2018 .

Awards

In 1994 and 1996 Dirk Schimmelpfennig was voted Trainer of the Year by the Association of German Table Tennis Trainers VDTT.

Functions outside the DTTB

Private

In 1996 Dirk Schimmelpfennig married the former table tennis youth national player Annette Lenzen. In 2001 he married again, from this marriage a daughter emerged.

Individual evidence

  1. a b magazine tischtennis , 2010/1 page 33
  2. Dirk Schimmelpfennig in the Munzinger archive , accessed on January 21, 2012 ( beginning of the article freely available)
  3. DTS magazine , 1992/12 page 12
  4. DTS magazine , 1996/10 page 27
  5. a b DTS magazine , 2000/11 page 35
  6. tischtennis magazine , 2011/7 pages 20–21
  7. ^ See Susanne Heuing: German-Chinese clout: How table tennis player Han Ying found a new home. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, October 4, 2015, page 36.
  8. tischtennis magazine , 2015/3 pages 26 + 29
  9. DTS magazine , 1993/10 page 37
  10. DTS magazine , 1997/1 page 29
  11. Roßkopf is named "Trainer of the Year" and shares the bonus with co-coach Zhu ( Memento of the original from November 6, 2012 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. News from November 3, 2012 (accessed November 4, 2012)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tischtennis.de
  12. DTS magazine , 1996/11 page 13
  13. DTS magazine , 2001/6 page 9
  14. DTS magazine , 2002/3 page 9

literature

  • Manfred Schäfer: Challenge for Dirk , DTS magazine , 1991/1 page 6
  • Manfred Schäfer: Sportpolitik - On the right track , DTS magazine , 1996/10 page 27

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