Helmut Kurrat

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Helmut Kurrat (born July 3, 1959 ) is a former German handball player and current handball trainer .

The 1.96 m tall back player came to handball through the school sports community of the Magdeburg Oskar-Linke School (1971). Two years later he came to the KJS. 1979 completed his first game for the men of SC Magdeburg (EC of the national champions against the Polish national champion Hutnik Kraków ). With this team Kurrat won six GDR national championship titles (1980-1985), an FDGB cup (1984) and a European cup in the national championship competition, as well as the European championship for club teams (1981).

After his early career end in 1986 ( Achilles tendon problems ), he became a sports teacher at the engineering college in Köthen and at the same time a junior coach, later head coach at HG 85 Köthen . In 1992 he then moved to Fermersleber SV . At the same time, Kurrat became a trainer for the male regional youth and trainer in the DHB junior division (including vice European champion born in 1984 in 2003). From the 2007/08 season he was the responsible youth coordinator at SC Magdeburg and coach of the second team at SCM. After Bogdan Wenta was on leave , he took over the interim coaching position for the first team, the SC Magdeburg Gladiators.

Since 2009 he has been the head of the Olympic base in Saxony-Anhalt.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ handball-world.news: “The team is the star” - an interview with youngsters coach Helmut Kurrat , accessed on April 11, 2018
2. ↑ osp-magdeburg-halle.de: Helmut Kurrat new Olympic base manager from August 1st , accessed on April 11th, 2018