Gerd Becker (handball player)

This article is about handball player Gerd Becker. For the football player of the same name, see Gerd Becker (football player) .

Gerd Becker

Player information
birthday	April 12, 1953
place of birth	Minden , Germany
citizenship	German
height	1.88 m
Playing position	Back center
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
0000-1970	TuS Minderheide
1970-1972	TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1972-1981	TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen
National team
Debut on	July 1, 1974
against	Israel in Cholon
	Games (goals)
BR Germany	31 (19)
As of November 22, 2019

Gerd Becker (born April 12, 1953 in Minden ) is a former German handball player . The middle back player played for TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen in the Bundesliga , with which he became German champion . He played 31 international games for the German national team , with which he took part in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal .

Career

The 1.88 m tall Becker moved from TuS Minderheide to TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen in 1970 . In 1972 he was with the A-youth and 1977 with the first team German champion, after it had previously only been enough to two runner-up championships. He won the DHB Cup three times and was in the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup , where he missed the winning goal with a throw seconds before the end of regular time. In 1981 the team was relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga and Becker ended his career at the age of 28 to concentrate on his profession as a dentist .

Becker was initially a youth international and was part of the team that played the first youth international match in the history of the DHB against Denmark in Minden on November 28, 1970 . He made his debut on July 1, 1974 against Israel in Cholon for the German national team . At the 1976 Olympics , he missed a medal with fourth place.

He currently runs the Minden Dental Center with two other doctors . He is married and has two children. Since 2011 he has been a member of the Advisory Board of GWD Minden .

successes

• German champion (2): 1972 ^AJgd , 1977
  • German runner-up (2): 1975 , 1976
• DHB Cup Winner (3): 1975 , 1976 , 1979
  • Vice European Cup Winner (1): 1976
  • 4th place at the Olympic Games (1): 1976

^AJgd in the A youth

Web links

• Gerd Becker in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stephan Müller & Helmut Laaß: German handball international games. (CD; 87MB) Sport-record.de, July 20, 2015, accessed on November 22, 2019 . 
2. ↑ dkb-handball-bundesliga.de: Altes vom Hexxer: The straw and the first cup final . November 19, 2015, as of November 12, 2017.
3. ↑ spiegel.de: Handball club GWD Minden. The fat years are over . June 23, 2010, as of November 12, 2017.
4. ↑ zhz-minden.de: The dental team of the ZHZ Minden . As of November 12, 2017.
5. ↑ handball-world.news: Support for Schefvert and Bredemeier - Minden installs advisory board . March 4, 2011, as of November 12, 2017.