Edgar Krank

Edgar Krank
portrait
birthday	April 14, 1967
place of birth	Creglingen , Germany
size	1.89 m
Indoor volleyball
position	Adoption / external attack
societies
- 1983 1983–1987 1987–1988 1988 1988–1994 2001–2002 2003–2005 2005–2006 2006 -	TV Creglingen Volleyball Boarding School Frankfurt Bayer Leverkusen Türk Gücü Munich VfB Friedrichshafen FTM Schwabing TSV Eibelstadt TG Rüsselsheim TSV Eibelstadt
National team
	A national team
successes
1988 - DVV Cup winner 1988 - German runner-up in 1989 - EM in Sweden
beach volleyball
partner	Oliver Oetke Axel Hager
successes
1996 - 3rd place German championship 1997 - Participation in the World Cup in Los Angeles 2003 - Participation in the Grand Slam in Berlin
As of October 5, 2012

Edgar Krank (born April 14, 1967 in Creglingen ) is a German volleyball and beach volleyball player .

Sports career hall

Edgar Krank started playing volleyball in his home country at TV Creglingen . At the age of sixteen he came to the volleyball boarding school in Frankfurt , where he played for four years. During this time Edgar Krank reached third place with the junior national team in 1986 at the Junior European Championship and fourth at the Junior World Championship in 1987. The acceptance and defense specialist then played for the Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen , with whom he became DVV Cup winner in 1988 and German runner-up. He then moved to Munich to join league rivals Türk Gücü , who withdrew from the Bundesliga after just a few months. Edgar Krank then joined VfB Friedrichshafen . With the senior national team he played in 1989 at the European Championships in Sweden . Even after the turn of the millennium, Edgar Krank was still active in the hall. In 2001/02 he played for the second division club FTM Schwabing , 2005/06 for the first division TG Rüsselsheim and since 2006 in the Bayernliga with TSV Eibelstadt .

Sports career beach

Edgar Krank has also played beach volleyball successfully since 1995. He had his first success with partner Oliver Oetke when he won the German masters tournament in 1995 in Frankfurt. In 1996 there were successes in Cologne and Kühlungsborn as well as 3rd place at the German championships . In 1997 Krank / Oetke took part in the first official beach volleyball world championships in Los Angeles , where they finished 17th. Edgar Krank participated in the Grand Slam in Berlin in 2003 with Axel Hager .

Private

Today Edgar Krank is the owner of a curtain shop in Creglingen.

Web links

• Ranking lists 1988 - men (PDF file; 7.97 MB)
• Ranking lists 1989 - Men ( Memento from March 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 5.15 MB)
• Ranking lists 1990 - Men ( Memento from March 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 4.56 MB)
• Profile at the world association FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• German volleyball association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:
2. ↑ http://www.tsv-eibelstadt.de/team_h1.html
3. ↑ http://www.diegardine.de/wb/pages/impressum.php