Dominik Klein

Dominik Klein

Dominik Klein (2018)
Player information
Full name	Dominik Walter Roland Klein
Nickname	"Mini"
birthday	December 16, 1983
place of birth	Miltenberg , Germany
citizenship	German
height	1.90 m
Playing position	Left winger
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1998-2002	TUSPO Obernburg
2002-2003	TV Großwallstadt
2003-2005	SG Wallau / Massenheim
2005-2006	TV Großwallstadt
2006-2016	THW Kiel
2016-2018	HBC Nantes
National team
Debut on	June 5, 2005
against	Israel in Tel Aviv
	Games (goals)
Germany	187 (370)
As of June 3, 2018

Dominik Walter Roland Klein (born December 16, 1983 in Miltenberg ) is a former German handball player who last played in France at HBC Nantes . His nickname is "Mini". He played on left winger .

Career

Dominik Klein started playing handball at TUSPO Obernburg , switched from there to TV Großwallstadt in 2002 and to SG Wallau / Massenheim in 2003 . In 2005 the THW Kiel became interested in him. But since the THW squad was already sufficiently staffed for the season and the SG Wallau / Massenheim was determined to be relegated at the end of the season, he moved again to Großwallstadt for a year. In 2006 he came to Kiel.

He made his international debut on January 4, 2003 in Stuttgart against the Hungarian national team . He celebrated one of his greatest successes on February 4, 2007 with the German national handball team by winning the handball world championship . For this triumph he was awarded the silver bay leaf . In addition, Klein won all relevant German titles in the 2006/07 season. The EHF Champions League Klein won the 2009/10 and 2011/12 in the 2006/07 season. He also won the German championship title with the THW in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 as well as the DHB Cup in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013.

In December 2013 he extended his contract with THW Kiel until June 30, 2016. He then moved to the French first division club HBC Nantes . He ended his career in summer 2018.

2015 Klein was in recognition of his career from the Schleswig-Holstein Prime Minister Torsten Albig with the Sport badge of Schleswig-Holstein excellent.

TV expert

Klein is regularly active as an ARD expert on handball broadcasts, including the broadcasts of the European Handball Championship 2020 .

Private

On July 3, 2009, Klein married his long-time girlfriend Isabell Nagel in Bensheim , who was last active in France at Nantes Loire Atlantique handball and in the national team . On February 23, 2014, they became parents to a boy.

Bundesliga statistics

season	society	league	Games	Gates	7 meters	Field gates
2001/02	TUSPO Obernburg	2nd Bundesliga South	33	135	0	135
2002/03	TV Großwallstadt	1st National League	17th	13	0	13
2002/03	TUSPO Obernburg	2nd Bundesliga South	32	166	26th	140
2003/04	SG Wallau / Massenheim	1st National League	20th	64	11	53
2003/04	TUSPO Obernburg	2nd Bundesliga South	31	145	15th	130
2004/05	SG Wallau / Massenheim	1st National League	33	151	30th	121
2004/05	TUSPO Obernburg	2nd Bundesliga South	25th	143	34	109
2005/06	TV Großwallstadt	1st National League	13	133	32	101
2005/06	TUSPO Obernburg	2nd Bundesliga South	16	20th	3	17th
2006/07	THW Kiel	1st National League	34	144	1	143
2007/08	THW Kiel	1st National League	34	89	1	88
2008/09	THW Kiel	1st National League	32	88	0	88
2009/10	THW Kiel	1st National League	33	95	0	95
2010/11	THW Kiel	1st National League	32	78	0	78
2011/12	THW Kiel	1st National League	34	89	1	88
2012/13	THW Kiel	1st National League	32	64	0	64
2013/14	THW Kiel	1st National League	33	34	0	34
2014/15	THW Kiel	1st National League	27	77	0	77
2015/16	THW Kiel	1st National League	14th	28	0	28
2001-2006	total	2nd Bundesliga	137	609	78	531
2002-2016	total	1st National League	388	1147	76	1071

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successes

• National team
  • Participation in the Junior World Championships 2003
  • 5th place at the European Championship 2006
  • World Champion 2007
  • 4th at the European Handball Championship 2008 in Norway
  • 9th place at the 2008 Olympic Games
  • 5th place at the 2009 World Cup
• THW Kiel
  • Schlecker Cup 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011
  • DHB Cup winners 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013
  • Champions League winner 2007, 2010 and 2012
  • Champions League final participation in 2008 and 2009
  • German champion 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015
  • DHB Supercup 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012 and 2014
  • Super Globe Winner 2011
  • EHF Champions Trophy winner 2007
• HBC Nantes
  • French cup winner 2017

social commitment

Dominik Klein has been a “guardian angel” since 2006, that is, ambassador for Mukoviszidose eV V. He also supports the Joachim Deckarm Foundation as an ambassador for the Joachim Deckarm Fund. He was also the ambassador for the application for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Munich.

literature

• Dominik Klein in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Dominik Klein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dominik Klein on the website of THW Kiel
• Dominik Klein , official website
• Dominik Klein in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Dominik Klein in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait on dhb.de ( Memento from April 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ www.focus.de Handball - WM: Merkel invites handball world champions to the Chancellery on June 4, 2007, accessed on April 5, 2014
3. ↑ Dominik Klein moves to France thw-handball.de on November 30, 2015, accessed on November 30, 2015.
4. ↑ ndr.de: Kiel legend Klein says "Au revoir" from March 22, 2018, accessed on March 22, 2018.
5. ↑ www.schleswig-holstein.de: In action for sport: Prime Minister Dominik Klein, Volker Klüßendorf and Dietmar Rohlf awarded the state's sports badge from March 9, 2015, accessed on July 27, 2016
6. ^ R. Schwinn: Nagel and Klein married in Bensheim. In: Bergsträßer Anzeiger edition of July 4, 2009
7. ↑ thw-handball.de: Clear victory in Wetzlar on February 23, 2014, accessed on July 27, 2016