Franziska Hentschel

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Franziska Constanze Hentschel (born June 29, 1970 in Stuttgart ) is a former German hockey player and Olympic participant in 1992 and 1996.

Career

Hentschel started at HTC Stuttgarter Kickers , then later moved to RTHC Bayer Leverkusen and SC 1880 Frankfurt . In 1992 and 1993 she took second place with Leverkusen in the German championship.

The center forward was part of the team that won the European Junior Championship in 1988, and in 1989 she helped win the World Junior Championship. In 1989 she made her debut in the German national hockey team . At the 1990 World Cup in Sydney she finished eighth with the German team. In 1991 the German team won the silver medal at the European Field Hockey Championships after losing to England in the final and also took second place in the Champions Trophy.

The following year, the Spanish hosts were the winners at the Olympic Games in Barcelona , Franziska Hentschel scored the only goal in the final for the German team that had to be content with the silver medal.

For this win she received - together with the team - the silver laurel leaf on June 23, 1993.

At the Champions Trophy 1993 she finished third with the German team, the following year the German team just missed the medal ranks at the 1994 World Cup in Dublin as fourth. After a bronze medal at the European field hockey championship in 1995 , the German team came fourth in the 1995 Champions Trophy, as in the previous year's world championships. After finishing sixth at the Atlanta Olympics , Hentschel interrupted her international career and completed her medical degree. At the European Indoor Championships in 2002 she won her third indoor title after 1990 and 1992, after her doctorate in 2002 she was named Dr. Hentschel in the squad.

Franziska Hentschel played a total of 168 international matches from 1989 to 2002, 15 of them indoors.

literature

  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Atlanta 96. The German Olympic team . Frankfurt am Main 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V., VIBSS: The Federal President and his duties in the field of sport: ... on June 23, 1993, Federal President von Weizsäcker signed ... disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Paralympic Games the silver bay leaf from ...
  2. ↑ List of European indoor champions
  3. ↑ List of German national players
personal data
SURNAME Hentschel, Franziska
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hentschel, Franziska Constanze (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart