Dirk Westphal
| Dirk Westphal | |
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| Techniker Beach Tour 2018 in Düsseldorf | |
| portrait | |
| birthday | January 31, 1986 |
| place of birth | Berlin, Germany |
| size | 2.03 m |
| Indoor volleyball | |
| position | External attack |
| societies | |
| 1994–2006 2002–2005 2005–2009 2009–2010 2010–2011 2011–2012 2012–2013 2013–2015 2015–2016 2016–2017 2017–2018 since 2018 |
Berlin TSC VC Olympia Berlin SCC Berlin Prisma Taranto Fenice Volley Isernia VC Euphony Asse-Lennik Knack Roeselare Czarni Radom Nantes Rezé Métropole Volley Shahrdari Tabriz SWD Powervolleys Düren Netzhoppers Königs Wusterhausen |
| National team | |
| 78 missions for the | A national team |
| successes | |
| 2004 - 3rd place Junior European Championship 2008 - German runner-up in 2009 - European league winner 2013 - Belgian champion and cup winner 2014 - World Cup third |
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| beach volleyball | |
| partner | 2003 Tilo Backhaus 2006–2010 various 2011–2012 Tilo Backhaus 2015–2016 various 2017 Patrick Gruhn 2018–2019 Lucas Mäurer |
| society | Capital Beacher |
| National ranking | Position 10 |
| successes | |
| 2018 - 5th place in the championship 2020 - Beach League winner |
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| Status: July 14, 2020 | |
Dirk Westphal (born January 31, 1986 in Berlin ) is a German national volleyball player and beach volleyball player . His greatest success was third place at the 2014 World Cup.
Career
Indoor volleyball
Dirk Westphal started his career at the Berlin TSC . He then moved to VC Olympia Berlin and was appointed to the junior national team. Here he celebrated his first successes on an international level. He won the bronze medal at the 2004 European Junior Championships in Zagreb . Furthermore, he reached ninth place at the Junior World Championships in 2005 and came fifth with the German student selection at the Universiade 2007 in Bangkok .
In 2005 Westphal played for the first time in the Bundesliga for SCC Berlin . With the Berliners he was third in the 2005/06 season after a defeat in the playoff semifinals against evivo Düren . The same result came in 2006/07 . He celebrated his greatest success at club level in the 2007/08 season with the runner-up.
The then national coach Raúl Lozano called Westphal for the first time in the German national team . With the team, the attacker won the Europa League in Portugal in 2009 and finished sixth at the European Championships in Turkey . He then moved to Italy to Prisma Taranto . In 2010 he played in the world league and reached ninth place with Germany. In the 2010/11 season was active in the Italian league at Feniche Volley Isernia . In 2011 he went to Belgium to VC Euphony Asse-Lennik and a year later he came to league competitor Knack Roeselare , with whom he became Belgian champion and cup winner in 2013.
In 2013 Westphal was called back to the national team. Then he moved to the Polish first division promoted Czarni Radom . With the DVV team, he won the bronze medal at the 2014 World Cup in Poland . In the 2015/16 season he played volleyball in the French league for Nantes Rezé Métropole. In the summer of 2016, he announced his resignation from the national team.
He was then presented as a new addition to the German Bundesliga club Netzhoppers Königs Wusterhausen , but then decided to move to the Iranian club Shahrdari Tabriz . He was the first German volleyball player to play in Iran. With the club he reached the playoff round against Sarmayeh Bank Tehran. In 2017 he was signed by the Bundesliga club SWD Powervolleys Düren and thus returned to Germany after several years abroad. With the Düren, he reached the playoff quarter-finals . Then he moved to the league competitor Netzhoppers Koenigs Wusterhausen. In the 2018/19 season he reached the cup quarter-finals with the club , but narrowly missed the Bundesliga playoffs as ninth in the table . In the 2019/20 season, the cup competition for the Netzhoppers ended in the round of 16 against eventual winner Berlin Recycling Volleys , while the team was in seventh place when the Bundesliga season was canceled . Westphal will also play for Netzhoppers in 2020/21.
beach volleyball
Westphal played his first beach volleyball tournaments with Tilo Backhaus in 2003 . From 2006 to 2010 he played individual tournaments with changing partners. In 2010 he took part in the Smart Beach Tour with Philipp Jahnke and Hannes Goertz in Leipzig and Sankt Peter-Ording . After he had suspended his career in the national indoor team in 2011 due to differences with national coach Lozano, he formed a duo with Backhaus again. Westphal / Backhaus achieved some top ten results on the German tour and in Supercups. At the CEV satellite tournament in Vaduz they came in 13th place. They also qualified for the German beach volleyball championship in Timmendorfer Strand , where they finished ninth. In 2012 they were subject to the FIVB World Tour at the Prague Open in the "Country Quota". In the CEV series, they played the satellite tournament in Umag and the Masters in Novi Sad (25th and 13th place). They were also active again in the German series. At the German championship in 2012 they came back to ninth place. Then they separated because Dirk Westphal saw his prospects more in the hall.
After playing two tournaments in 2015, Westphal was more active again in the sand in 2016. He played with Denis Kaliberda and Lucas Mäurer , among others . In 2017 he formed a new duo with Patrick Gruhn . He also founded the Capital Beacher association with some Berlin beach volleyball players. In 2018 and 2019 he played with Lucas Mäurer on the Techniker Beach Tour and finished fifth and thirteenth at the German Championships in Timmendorfer Strand . In 2020 Westphal and Max Betzien won the first edition of the Beach League in the final against Alexander Walkenhorst and Sven Winter .
Private
Dirk Westphal is the son of the former GDR national player Petra Westphal . In 1996 he came to the Coubertin-Gymnasium Berlin, an “elite school for sport”, where he passed his Abitur in 2006.
Web links
- Profile at the German Volleyball Bundesliga (VBL)
- Profile at the European Volleyball Federation CEV (English)
- Profile at the Italian Volleyball League (Italian)
- Beach profile at DVV
- Beach profile at the world association FIVB (English)
- Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ German ranking list (as of January 2, 2020)
- ^ DVV: New clubs for national players. volleyball.de, June 30, 2015, accessed on July 29, 2015 .
- ↑ Dirk Westphal declares his resignation. DVV, August 26, 2016, accessed on October 17, 2016 .
- ↑ Volleyball player Dirk Westphal leaves the Netzhoppers again. (No longer available online.) RBB , October 17, 2016, archived from the original on October 18, 2016 ; accessed on October 17, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ From nomad to pioneer. Der Tagesspiegel , January 3, 2017, accessed on August 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Dredging in the land of contrasts. Berliner Morgenpost , February 14, 2017, accessed on August 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Former national volleyball player Westphal is moving to Düren. Aachener Nachrichten , August 9, 2017, accessed on August 9, 2017 .
- ↑ All good things come in threes - Netzhoppers SolWo Königspark KW sign Dirk Westphal. Netzhoppers, June 20, 2018, accessed June 26, 2018 .
- ↑ Netzhoppers defy the Corona crisis. Netzhoppers KW, April 22, 2020, accessed on May 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Beach volleyball in the land of contrasts. beach-volleyballer.de, February 14, 2017, accessed on August 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Westphal smashes Iran. In: Berliner Kurier . October 26, 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2017 .
- ↑ The sporting success of the Coubertin high school students in international competitions
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Westphal, Dirk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German volleyball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin , Germany |