Ulrich Hänel

Ulrich Hänel (born March 6, 1957 in Plau am See ) is a former German hockey player . He won two Olympic silver medals.

Career

Hänel began playing hockey in Marl, Westphalia. In 1969 he moved to Cologne, where he joined Rot-Weiss Cologne . After Hänel became German indoor champion in 1978, the all-round player had to wait eight years before he won his second indoor championship title again in 1986.

After his first championship title, Hänel did not have to wait so long for his first appointment to the German national team . In 1978 he won the European championship with the German team, followed by the indoor European championship in 1980 . At the World Cup 1981/1982 he failed with the German team at Pakistan. After bronze at the European Championship in 1983, Hänel and the German team faced the Pakistani team again in the final of the 1984 Olympic Games and won the silver medal two and a half years earlier, as at the World Cup. In the 1986 World Cup and at the EuroHockey Nations Championships in 1987 Ulrich Hanel was respectively involved in winning the bronze medal. At the Olympic Games in 1988 , Hänel was again part of the tribe and, this time after losing to the British team in the final, won another silver medal. Ulrich Hänel played a total of 148 international matches from 1978 to 1989, 6 of them indoors.

literature

• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Los Angeles 1984. The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany . Frankfurt am Main 1984
• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Seoul 1988. The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany . Frankfurt am Main 1988

Web links

• Ulrich Hänel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ↑ international appearances