Ingolf Wiegert

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Ingolf Wiegert (born November 3, 1957 in Magdeburg ) is a former GDR handball player .

SC Magdeburg

Wiegert started playing handball at TuS Progress Magdeburg and then switched to the SC Magdeburg performance center . At the age of 19 he made his debut in the GDR league . The Kreisläufer quickly established itself as the successor to the resigned Wolfgang Lakenmacher . With the SCM he was a total of seven times GDR champion and four times GDR cup winner. He also won the European Champion Clubs' Cup with the SCM in 1978 and 1981 .

In 1983 he was voted handball player of the year .

National team

Wiegert completed 225 international matches for the GDR national team . He was a member of the team that in the Olympic Games in 1980 in Moscow Olympic champion was. He could not defend the title in Los Angeles in 1984 because of the boycott of the GDR. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he was also unable to take part because of a ruptured Achilles tendon that he suffered in January 1988 and that ended his career.

In 1978 and 1986 he was third with the GDR at the handball world championships. For his achievements in the national team, he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver in 1980 and gold in 1984.

Trainer

After his playing career, he became a junior coach at SCM and reached the GDR runner-up in 1990 with the A-youth. In 1993/1994 he coached the SCM Bundesliga team. From 1994 to 1995 he was the national coach of the women's national team. In 1997 he took over the coaching position at SG Eintracht Glinde and led the "Dorfverein" near Schönebeck within five years from the district class to the regional league. In 2005 he resigned due to differences about the further development of the club.

Wiegert works as a teacher at the Magdeburg Sports High School and trains young handball players in Kempa training camps.

Quote

"He's the man with the ball bearings on his hips, who was like wet soap, slippery and impossible to hold on to."

- Sead Hasanefendić on Ingolf Wiegert

Private

Wiegert is married, the former Bundesliga player and current coach of the Bundesliga team of SC Magdeburg Bennet Wiegert is his son.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://ddr-handball.de/, accessed on February 5, 2018
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 3
  3. ^ New Germany, 1./2. September 1984, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Wiegert, Ingolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German handball player
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd November 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg