Jan Holpert

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Jan Holpert
Jan Holpert

Jan Holpert (2010)

Player information
birthday 4th May 1968
place of birth Flensburg , Germany
citizenship GermanGerman German
height 1.91 m
Playing position goalkeeper
Throwing hand right
Clubs as active
from ... to society
0000-000 GermanyGermany TSV Glücksburg 09
000-1986 GermanyGermany TSB Flensburg
1986-1993 GermanyGermany TSV Milbertshofen
1993-2007 GermanyGermany SG Flensburg-Handewitt
National team
Debut on April 1, 1990 in Turku
against TurkeyTurkey Turkey
  Games (goals)
GermanyGermany Germany 245

As of October 15, 2019

Jan Holpert (born May 4, 1968 in Flensburg ) is a former German handball goalkeeper . With 625 Bundesliga games , he played most games in Bundesliga history over several years, which earned him the name “record man”. Holpert lost the record on December 19, 2019 to Carsten Lichtlein , who was in goal for the 626th time in the handball Bundesliga that day. With 476 saved seven meters, Holpert holds a Bundesliga record.

Career

Jan Holpert warming up before a game

Jan Holpert began playing handball at TSV Glücksburg 09 and succeeded via TSB Flensburg in 1986 to TSV Milbertshofen , where he played his first Bundesliga game on September 13, 1986. With TSV Milbertshofen, he won the DHB Cup against THW Kiel in 1990 and was also German runner-up. In 1991 he won the European Cup Winners' Cup with Milbertshofen against Bidasoa Irún . The following year he was again in the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup with TSV, but KC Veszprém was able to win the final.

Since the bankruptcy of TSV Milbertshofen in 1993, Jan Holpert played for SG Flensburg-Handewitt . There he was, together with Lars Christiansen and Johnny Jensen, one of the identifying figures for Flensburg handball fans.

The seven-meter killer celebrated his first major success with SG Flensburg-Handewitt in 1997 when SG won the EHF Cup against the Danish club Virum-Sorgefri HK . With the City Cup 1999 and the European Cup Winners' Cup in 2001, two further European titles followed.

After Holpert won the DHB Cup with Flensburg-Handewitt in 2003, he was able to win the German championship for the first time in 2004 - in addition to another cup success - after five runners-up with the SG. In addition, the double winner was in the final of the Champions League , but they were left behind against RK Celje .

By defending the DHB Cup in 2005, Holpert won his last title. In 2005 and 2006 he was again runner-up. In 2007 he was in the final of the Champions League again, but lost there in the local derby against THW Kiel.

In December 2006, Holpert announced that he would not renew his contract and end his career after the season. He played his farewell game on June 3, 2007 in the campus hall . On June 5, 2007 he again guarded the goal of the all-star team for the 2006/07 season . During this event, he and Stefan Kretzschmar were honored for his “life's work”.

On October 11, 2007 Jan Holpert made his comeback in the Champions League against MKS Zagłębie Lubin, as Dan Beutler was injured.

He played 245 international matches for the German national team . His greatest success was 3rd place at the 1998 European Championship . After he had already ended his international playing career, he was again included in the extended national squad before the 2007 World Cup due to injury concerns, but was later not part of the World Cup squad.

With his agency for communication "Strandhütte" Holpert supported the marketing department of SG Flensburg-Handewitt from the beginning of the 2006/07 season to the end of the 2013/14 season. Furthermore, he stayed with the SG after his career as a goalkeeper coach.

Private

Holpert is married and has two children. His older brother Fynn Holpert also played as a handball goalkeeper in the Bundesliga and was a manager at SG-Flensburg-Handewitt between 2007 and 2009.

successes

Web links

Commons : Jan Holpert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Player portrait of Jan Holpert, 2006/07 season on sg-flensburg-handewitt.de , accessed on February 3, 2013
  2. ↑ handball-world.news: 626 missions: Carsten Lichtlein is the record player in the handball Bundesliga , accessed on December 19, 2019
  3. ↑ Handball in the north, publisher: Flensborg Avis AG, edition: August 30, 2007
  4. ↑ Report of the Handewitter Rundschau (pdf) ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ NDR1: From "Eternal Second" to Double Winner ( Memento from March 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt
  7. ↑ All-Star-Game: Jan Holpert honored for his “life's work”
  8. ↑ Champions League: Jan Holpert and Blazenko Lackovic before comeback
  9. ↑ World Cup contingent of the DHB ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Strandhütte advertising agency
  11. ↑ Netzeitung: Goalkeeper Holpert ends active career ( Memento from May 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ handball-world.news: "European Cup, that's a lot of emotions" - Jan Holpert on the Flensburg EC history , accessed on April 17, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Holpert, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German handball goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH 4th May 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg