Hella Jurich

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Hella Jurich Volleyball (beach)
Hella Jurich (2011)
DKB Beach Cup 2011
portrait
birthday December 28, 1980
place of birth Tokyo , Japan
size 1.80 m
Partner 2003–2008 Rieke Brink-Abeler
2009, 2011 Antje Röder
2010 Melanie Gernert
society Marzahner VC
successes
2004 - German champion
2006 - 2nd place DM
2008 - 2nd place DM
(As of July 30, 2013)

Hella Jurich (born December 28, 1980 in Tokyo ) is a former German beach volleyball player . With Rieke Brink-Abeler as a partner, she was German champion in 2004.

Career

Hella Jurich began playing volleyball indoors in 1990 . In May 2000 she played her first beach volleyball tournament. In 2003 she founded a duo with Rieke Brink-Abeler, which did not show any great success in the first year. In 2004, the two women from Münster competed as outsiders at the German championship in Timmendorfer Strand and defeated the Olympic participants in Pohl / Rau in the final . In the following year they finished 13th in the world championship in Berlin and took part in the World Tour for the first time. In 2006 they made it to fifth place in some tournaments in the world series and reached the final of the German championship, which they lost to Goller / Ludwig . At the 2007 World Cup in Gstaad they stayed in the preliminary round as well as in the German duel of the first main round against Banck / Lahme without losing a set, but were eliminated against the next German opponents Claasen / Röder . After another German runner-up in 2008, Jurich separated from her long-time partner Rieke Brink-Abeler and played with Antje Röder in 2009 and 2011 and with Melanie Gernert in 2010 .

Hella Jurich, together with Rieke Brink-Abeler from the Sports Association of the City of Münster, was named Team of the Year at the Ball des Sports in 2006 and 2008.

Private

Jurich lives in Berlin and completed a distance learning course in business administration . Today she is the managing director of the IfT Institute for Talent Development. Jurich was married to beach volleyball player Tilo Backhaus from 2014 to 2018 ; the two have a daughter.

Web links

Commons : Hella Jurich  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Westfälische Nachrichten : The last round has started - high-speed final spurt: Many candidates are already giving full throttle in the new year , Münster's athlete of the year 2012, January 30, 2013