Jan Niklas Wimberg

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Basketball player
Jan Niklas Wimberg
Player information
birthday February 11, 1996
place of birth Oldenburg , Germany
size 2.07 m
position wing
Clubs as active
0000–2017 GermanyGermany EWE Baskets Oldenburg / Oldenburg TB
2017-2018 GermanyGermany Oettinger Rockets
2018-2019 GermanyGermany Polar bears Bremerhaven
2019– GermanyGermany Niners Chemnitz
National team 1
2011–2012 GermanyGermany Germany U16
2013-2014 GermanyGermany Germany U18
2016 GermanyGermany Germany U20
2017-2019 GermanyGermany Germany A2
2020– GermanyGermany Germany 1
1 As of February 25, 2020

Jan Niklas Wimberg (born February 11, 1996 in Oldenburg ) is a German basketball player . He is under contract with BV Chemnitz 99 . Wimberg measures 2.07 meters and is used as a winger.

Club career

Wimberg learned to play basketball at the Oldenburg TB . He went through the youth department of the club. After the 2009/10 season in the youth basketball league , he was named “Rookie of the Year”. In 2013 he received the Roland Geggus Prize as "Rookie of the Year" in the youth basketball league . In September 2010 he was invited to the “Children of the World Camp” in Istanbul , which was organized by the Turkish Basketball Federation and the World Federation FIBA ​​as part of the World Cup . In April 2012, the Oldenburger took part in the "Jordan Brand Classic International Game" and scored two points and rebounds in 15 minutes each and blocked three throws.

In the season 2012/13 Wimberg was first in the men's team of the syndicate of Baskets Akademie Weser-Ems Oldenburg and TB in the Pro B used. 2014 and 2015 he was with the Baskets Akademie Weser-Ems / Oldenburg TB each master of the 2. Bundesliga Pro B , but in both cases abandoned the team to promotion to the Pro A . On October 25, 2014, Wimberg celebrated his Bundesliga debut and played for the first time in the basketball Bundesliga in the game between EWE Baskets Oldenburg and Phoenix Hagen .

In the summer of 2017, he left Oldenburg and joined the Bundesliga newcomer Oettinger Rockets . He played 26 Bundesliga games for the Thuringian and achieved an average of 4.7 points per encounter. At the end of the season he was relegated with the team from the first division. In July 2018 he was signed by the Eisbären Bremerhaven . He also suffered relegation from the Bundesliga with the Eisbären, Wimberg played 31 league games for the Eisbären during the 2018/19 season and posted 4.2 points per game. In the summer break of 2019 he was signed by the second division team Niners Chemnitz . Wimberg and Chemnitzer led the table with 25 wins and two defeats when the 2019/20 season ended prematurely in March 2020 due to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and Chemnitz was awarded the right to promotion to the Bundesliga. He had scored an average of 10.5 points per game over the course of the season.

National team career

In 2010 Wimberg was nominated for the U15 selection of the German Basketball Federation for the first time. In 2011 and 2012 he took part in the U16 European Championships and in 2013 and 2014 in the U18 European Championships. In the summer of 2016 he reached fourth place with the German U20 selection at the European Championships in Finland and, according to statistical values, was the most effective player in the German team over the course of the tournament. In the summer of 2017 he was appointed to the German A2 national team for the first time. In 2019 he finished fifth with the A2 selection at the Summer Universiade in Naples . He was appointed to the German national basketball team in early 2020 for the first qualification window for the 2021 European basketball championship . He made his debut in the 73-81 loss to the British national basketball team on February 24, 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Squad. (No longer available online.) In: ewe-baskets.de. Archived from the original on February 8, 2016 ; accessed on February 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ewe-baskets.de
  2. ↑ Awards of the youth basketball league - JBBL. In: NBBL and JBBL. Accessed February 8, 2016 (German).
  3. ↑ Awards of the youth basketball Bundesliga - NBBL. In: NBBL and JBBL. Accessed February 8, 2016 (German).
  4. ^ Three young Germans at the Children of the World Camp 2010. In: www.basketball-bund.de. German Basketball Federation, accessed February 8, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Boxscore JBC International Game. Jordan Brand Classic, April 14, 2012, accessed February 8, 2016 .
  6. ↑ ProB championship goes to Oldenburg - no ProA promotion. (No longer available online.) In: ewe-baskets.de. Archived from the original on February 8, 2016 ; accessed on February 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ewe-baskets.de
  7. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Oldenburg is ProB Champion 2014/2015. In: www.zweite-basketball-bundesliga.de. Retrieved February 8, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Beko BBL - 2014-10-25 HAG-OLD. In: www.beko-bbl.de. Retrieved February 8, 2016 .
  9. ↑ http://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/zgt/leben/detail/-/specific/Basketballer-Wimberg-wechselelt-von-Oldenburg-nach-Gotha-1655570093  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.thueringer-allgemeine.de  
  10. ↑ easyCredit - 517 ERF. Retrieved June 6, 2018 .
  11. ↑ "The basic idea is out of the question for me at all" . In: BASKETBALL.DE . May 5, 2018 ( basketball.de [accessed June 6, 2018]).
  12. ↑ http://dieeisbaeren.de/jan-niklas-wimberg-verstaeckt-die-eisbaeren-bremerhaven/
  13. ↑ Eisbär boss Grube: "Baskets Oldenburg are dishonorable" - buten and inside. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Eisbären Bremerhaven, Statistics 2018/19. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
  15. ↑ https://www.chemnitz99.de/news/485/Naechster-Transfercoup
  16. ↑ BARMER 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Table ProA. Retrieved on March 18, 2020 (German).
  17. ↑ BARMER 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Coronavirus: Game operations in the ProA and ProB will be ended prematurely. Retrieved March 18, 2020 .
  18. ↑ NINERS Chemnitz - ProA - 2019/2020. In: 2basketballbundesliga.de. Retrieved March 18, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Joint kick-off course for U15, U16, U17 and U18 boys in Rotenburg. In: www.basketball-bund.de. German Basketball Federation, accessed February 8, 2016 .
  20. ↑ FIBA.com. (No longer available online.) In: FIBA.com. Archived from the original on February 8, 2016 ; accessed on February 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archive.fiba.com
  21. ↑ U20 men miss the European Championship medal. In: www.basketball-bund.de. German Basketball Association, accessed on August 10, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Germany at the 2016 FIBA ​​U20 European Championship Division A - FIBA.com. In: FIBA.com. Retrieved August 10, 2016 .
  23. ↑ A2 men nominated. German Basketball Association, accessed on May 24, 2017 .
  24. ↑ Universiade: A2 men in fifth place. German Basketball Association, accessed on July 13, 2019 .
  25. ↑ European Championship qualification men: 14 players nominated. In: basketball-bund.de. German Basketball Association, February 4, 2020, accessed on February 4, 2020 .
  26. ↑ DBB men are subject to Great Britain. German Basketball Association, accessed on February 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Wimberg, Jan Niklas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg