Jens Kujawa

Jens Kujawa
Player information
birthday	January 28, 1965
place of birth	Braunschweig , Germany
size	213 cm
position	center
college	Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Clubs as active
1988–1989 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1989–1993 BG Ludwigsburg 1993–1997 SSV Ulm 1997–1999 SV Tally Oberelchingen
National team 1
1986-1993	Germany	97
1 As of September 15, 2009

Jens Kujawa medal table
Basketball (men)
Germany
European Championship
gold	1993 Germany	Germany

Jens Kujawa (born January 28, 1965 in Braunschweig ) is a former German national basketball player .

life and career

He started his career at TuRa Braunschweig and played there until he was 17. At the age of 17 he moved to ASC 1846 Göttingen , which enabled him to spend 6 years in the USA. After two years of high school in Bellingham and Taylorville , he decided to study at the University of Illinois at Urbana , where he played from 1984 to 1988.

In Germany he played for Bayer 04 Leverkusen , BSG Basket Ludwigsburg , SSV ratiopharm Ulm 1846 and SV Oberelchingen from 1988 to 2001 before ending his basketball career.

Jens Kujawa completed 97 missions in the German national basketball team from his debut on May 31, 1986 to his last appearance on July 4, 1993 .

Today he is a management consultant in Hamburg with a focus on demography / time accounts.

successes

His greatest successes were winning the European basketball championship in 1993 , to which he only subsequently slipped into the German squad after the cancellations of Uwe Blab and Detlef Schrempf , and participation in the 1992 Summer Olympics with a game against the first dream team. In 1996 he won the German Basketball Cup with SSV Ulm .

literature

• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Barcelona 1992. The German Olympic team . Frankfurt am Main 1992

Web links

• Jens Kujawa - player profile on Basketball-Bundesliga.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Statistics of the national basketball teams
2. ↑ "These are our 12 giants", Sport-Bild from June 23, 1993, p. 32 f.