Heike Horstmann

Heike Horstmann

Player information
birthday	1st September 1971
place of birth	Plettenberg , Germany
citizenship	German
height	1.68 m
Playing position	Back center
Throwing hand	right
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
0000-0000	TuS Plettenberg
0000-	SSV Sundern
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1989-1993	VfL Oldenburg
1993-1995	TuS Walle Bremen
1995-1998	VfL Oldenburg
1998-1999	Buxtehuder SV
1999-2005	VfL Oldenburg
National team
Debut on	September 29, 1991
against	Estonia
	Games (goals)
Germany	168 (372)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2005-2008	DHB women (co-trainer)
2018-2019	DHB women (co-trainer)
As of December 19, 2019

Heike Horstmann (née Schmidt; born September 1, 1971 in Plettenberg ) is a former German handball player who played 168 times for the German national team. After her active career, she took over as assistant coach of the German women's national team in July 2005 . After the birth of her son in 2008, she stopped doing this job. Ten years later, the A license holder took over this post again. After the 2019 World Cup , she resigned.

Success as a player

• 6th place Junior World Championships 1991
• German champion, DHB cup winner, European cup winner 1994
• German champion and DHB cup winner 1995
• 3rd place World Cup 1997
• 6th place EM 1998
• 9th place EM 2000
• 11th place EM 2002
• 12th place 2003 World Cup
• 5th place EM 2004

Success as an assistant trainer

• 4th place EM 2006
• 3rd place World Cup 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ dhb.de: National players , accessed on September 16, 2015
2. ↑ nwzonline.de: Heike Horstmann resigns as a trainer , accessed on October 8, 2014
3. ↑ dhb.de: Heike Horstmann and Debbie Klijn in the coaching team of the women's national team , accessed on April 17, 2018
4. ↑ handball-world.news: Resignation at DHB women: Horstmann no longer co-trainer , accessed on December 19, 2019