Heike Lätzsch

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Heike Lätzsch , after marriage to Heike Wedekind , (born December 19, 1973 in Braunschweig ) is a former German national hockey player who became Olympic champion in 2004.

biography

During her school days she played for the Braunschweig clubs THC and Eintracht . After graduating from high school , she went to Paris for six months , where she joined Stade Frances Paris. In 1993 Lätzsch began studying law in Cologne and wore the outfit of RTHC Bayer Leverkusen until she moved to Rot-Weiss Cologne in 1998 . Lätzsch became German champion for the first time in 1999 with Rot-Weiss Köln, and only one year later she was also European champion of the national champions. In 2004 she successfully passed the 2nd state examination and then worked as a lawyer for media companies. From 2009 to the beginning of 2016, she worked as a human resources manager and lawyer at the Cologne-based media service provider Unicepta Gesellschaft für Medienanalyse mbH and is now a legal advisor and certified data protection officer for datenschutz süd GmbH.

At the age of 16, Heike Lätzsch was appointed to the A-team of the German Hockey Association for the first time in 1990 and, until her international resignation in 2004, played 250 A-internationals for Germany, with the striker scoring 41 goals. Their greatest success was achieved by the participant at four world championships and four Olympic Games by winning the gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , after already 1992 Olympic silver in Barcelona was able to win and was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on June 23 1993rd

In 1999 Lätzsch was appointed to the world selection and in this context took part in a game against the reigning Olympic champion Australia in Egypt.

Heike Wedekind was the DHB's anti-doping officer from January 2008 to the end of 2009. She is the sister of the national junior hockey player Carsten Lätzsch who died in a traffic accident near Magdeburg in January 1986 together with the national youth coach Günter Köppen .

International success in hockey

  • 1991 2nd place 3rd European Women's Championship in Brussels
  • 1992 Silver Olympic Games Barcelona
  • 1993 3rd place 2nd Junior World Championship Terrassa
  • 1995 3rd place 4th European Women's Championship Amstelveen
  • 1997 2nd place in the Champions Trophy in Berlin
  • 1998 3rd place 9th Women's World Championship in Utrecht
  • 1999 3rd place in the Champions Trophy in Brisbane
  • 1999 2nd place 5th European Women's Championship in Cologne
  • 2000 2nd place in the Champions Trophy in Amstelveen
  • 2004 Gold Olympic Games Athens

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. ↑ www.hockey.de, January 18, 1986
personal data
SURNAME Lätzsch, Heike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wedekind, Heike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 19th December 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig