Women's national handball team of the GDR

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German Democratic Republic
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Association German Handball Association (DHV)
confederacy EHF
Most goals Katrin Mietzner : 1095
Most games Petra Uhlig : 282
Olympic games
Participations 2 of 12 (First: 1976 )
best result 2nd place ( 1976 )
Women's handball world championship
Participations 7 of 24 (First: 1971 )
best result World Champion ( 1971 , 1975 , 1978 )
(As of December 4, 1990)

The women's national handball team of the GDR represented the German Democratic Republic at international matches and international handball tournaments from 1951 . It was organized by the German Handball Association.

The team was world champion three times and third once. It also won the silver medal at the 1976 Olympic Games and the bronze medal at the 1980 Olympic Games , making it one of the strongest women's handball teams in the world. She has remained unbeaten four times in twenty or more consecutive internationals.

The GDR selection of women competed in 641 indoor and small field internationals between 1956 and 1990, of which they won 470 and drew 56. In contrast, there are only 115 defeats. The selection played its last fourteen games after German reunification. At the world championship in November / December 1990 she took part as the second German team alongside the DHB selection. There she played her last game, in which the other German team was her opponent. The DHV selection won this game with 25:19. This was the eleventh victory for the DHV selection in the twelfth “German-German” comparison. Only when qualifying for the 1962 World Cup did a DHB selection succeed in beating the GDR team.

The record player in the selection is Petra Uhlig with 282 appearances ahead of Evelyn Hübscher (270) and Katrin Mietzner (260). The best goalscorer is Katrin Mietzner with 1095 goals ahead of Evelyn Hübscher (845) and Kristina Richter (880). Petra Uhlig scored the most seven-meter goals (276).

In field handball (large field), the selection played a total of 31 internationals between 1951 and 1964, where they were victorious 23 times. 2 games ended in a draw, 6 were lost. The record player and goal scorer in field handball is Inge Schanding with 21 appearances and 43 goals.

Participation in championships

Handball world championship

event place Trainer Players
World Championship 1971 1. Hans Becker Hannelore Burosch , Edelgard Rothe , Hannelore Zober , Bärbel Braun , Petra Kahnt , Barbara Helbig , Waltraud Kretzschmar , Bärbel Starke , Maria Winkler , Renate Breuer , Adelheid Dobrunz , Kristina Hochmuth , Barb Heinz , Liane Michaelis , Brigitte Lück
World Championship 1973 9. Eva Baldeweg , Hannelore Burosch , Hannelore Zober , Jancker, Christine Gehlhoff , Barb Heinz , Silvia Heinrich , Kristina Richter , Waltraud Kretzschmar , Hannelore Junghans, Marion Tietz , Petra Kahnt , Bärbel Braun , Bönsch
World Championship 1975 1. Peter Kretzschmar Hannelore Burosch , Eva Paskuy , Hannelore Zober , Christine Gehlhoff , Silvia Siefert , Karin Jänicke , Roswitha Krause , Evelyn Matz , Kristina Richter , Marion Tietz , Petra Kahnt , Waltraud Kretzschmar , Beate Kühn , Christina Rost , Christina Lange , Ursula Putzier
World Championship 1978 1. Peter Kretzschmar , Klaus Franke Hannelore Zober , Hannelore Burosch , Renate Rudolph , Evelyn Matz , Roswitha Krause , Kristina Richter , Marion Tietz , Katrin Krüger , Christina Rost , Petra Uhlig , Waltraud Kretzschmar , Eva Langenberg , Claudia Wunderlich , Kornelia Elbe , Birgit Heinecke , Sabine Röther
World Championship 1982 4th Peter Kretzschmar , Klaus Franke Sabine Picken , Bärbel Suckow , Andrea Wolf , Kornelia Kunisch , Claudia Wunderlich , Christina Rost , Petra Uhlig , Angela Werner , Evelyn Geyer , Marion Tietz , Evelyn Hübscher , Katrin Krüger , Marion Schulz , Sybille Wagner , Sabine Kirschke , Iris Knaak
World Championship 1986 4th Peter Kretzschmar , Klaus Franke Sabine Picken , Andrea Stolletz , Renate Zschau , Kornelia Kunisch , Kerstin Voigtländer , Liane Kämpf , Kerstin Nindel , Kerstin Knüpfer , Cordula David , Annegret Matthäus , Sigrun Unger , Evelyn Hübscher , Katrin Krüger , Marion Schulz , Marika Hoffmann , Kerstin Wolff
World Cup 1990 3. Heinz Strauch , Lothar Doering Andrea Stolletz , Manuela Kelm , Anett Kuhlke , Gabriele Palme , Kerstin Mühlner , Anja Krüger , Carola Ciszewski , Marika Ahrens , Josefine Grosse , Sabine Quednau , Katrin Petzold , Karen Heinrich , Kerstin Nindel , Angela Werner , Katrin Mietzner
Game scene at the 1980 Olympics

Olympic games

event place Trainer Players
Olympia 1976 2. Peter Kretzschmar Hannelore Burosch , Gabriele Badorek , Eva Paskuy , Christina Voß , Hannelore Zober , Petra Uhlig , Waltraud Kretzschmar , Christina Rost , Roswitha Krause , Evelyn Matz , Kristina Richter , Marion Tietz , Liane Michaelis , Silvia Siefert
Olympia 1980 3. Peter Kretzschmar Hannelore Zober , Waltraud Kretzschmar , Christina Rost , Petra Uhlig , Renate Rudolph , Roswitha Krause , Kristina Richter , Marion Tietz , Kornelia Kunisch , Birgit Heinecke , Claudia Wunderlich , Katrin Krüger , Evelyn Hübscher

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Handball 88, special supplement to the DHV Association Organ Handball, summer 1988, p. 71 - deviating from this, Laaß / Müller only lists 276 international matches
  2. ^ Deutscher Handballbund, Medien-Information 02/03/2007 ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) - deviating from this, Hübscher is led by Laaß / Müller with 269 international matches
  3. as in the previous footnote - slightly different information from Laaß / Müller
  4. ^ Laaß, Helmut / Müller, Stephan, German handball international games 1925–2015, CD-ROM publication, Berlin 2015.