Jerzy Christ

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Flag of Poland and Germany.svg  Jerzy Christ Ice hockey player
Date of birth September 15, 1958
place of birth Katowice , Poland
size 185 cm
Weight 87 kg
position center
Career stations
until 1983 Baildon Katowice
1983-1994 GKS Katowice
1984-1989 Polonia Bytom
1989 Zurich SC
1989-1994 ECD Sauerland
1994-1995 ERC Westphalia Dortmund 90
1995-1997 Iserlohner EC

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Jerzy Christ (born September 15, 1958 in Katowice ) is a former Polish - German ice hockey player . He was a center forward .

Career

The trained miner began his career in 1976 at Baildon Kattowitz, where he became Polish runner-up in his first year. In 1983 he played one season for GKS Katowice before moving to Polonia Bytom in 1984 , where he played until 1989. The time at Polonia Bytom was the most successful of his ice hockey career. He was considered one of the best players of the decade and immediately led the club, with his strike partner Jan Piecko , to the first Polish championship. In the same year he was awarded the "Golden Racket" by the Polish trade press as the best ice hockey player. Further successful years followed with two championships (1986, 1988) and again the "Golden Stick" award for the best ice hockey player in Poland (1986). In between were two runner-up championships (1985, 1987). In the first Polish league he played a total of 423 games and scored 204 goals.

Christ received his first contract abroad with Zürcher SC , where he made it to the top division of Switzerland as a two-time goalscorer . In December 1989 Jerzy Christ came to Germany as an emigrant . The then chairman of the ECD Sauerland , Heinz Weifenbach , had brought him to Iserlohn together with his compatriots Jędrzej Kasperczyk and Ireneusz Pacula . Here Christ played, with a stopover at ERC Westfalen Dortmund 90 in the 1994/95 season (league champions), until 1997 for the ECD Sauerland (later the Iserlohner EC ) in the second division . In his debut game in the ECD Sauerland jersey against Duisburg, he immediately scored three goals. He later became team captain. Due to a high risk of embolism, he had to take a long break in 1991. The pulmonary embolism as well as an inflammation of the muscles forced him to pause the entire 1993/94 season.

After the end of his career as an ice hockey player, he continued to train regularly for a while with the old men of Westphalia Dortmund and the traditional ECD team. With both teams he took part in several tournaments and won the Sauerland Cup of ice hockey oldies once. He also played a few games for the Menden Mambas' inline skate hockey team .

The enthusiastic cycling fan lives in the Iserlohn district of Sümmern .

International career

During his international career between 1983 and 1989, Jerzy Christ made 103 international matches and 47 goals for the Polish national team. He took part in four world championships and two Olympic Games .

World championships

Olympic games

Jerzy Christ played his best international games during the Winter Olympics in Calgary and at the 1986 World Cup in Moscow, where he scored both goals for the Poles in defeating the then reigning world champions Czechoslovakia (Poland won 2-1).

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1987/88 Polonia Bytom Ekstraliga 28 47 17th 64 0
1988/89 Polonia Bytom Ekstraliga
1988/89 Zurich SC NLB 3 1 0 1 2 1 1 0 1 2
1989/90 ECD Sauerland Iserlohn 2nd BL 10 7th 13 20th 8th 18 MR 6th 14th 20th 16
1990/91 ECD Sauerland Iserlohn 2nd BL 5 2 5 7th 4th 8 MR 1 5 6th 0
1991/92 ECD Sauerland Iserlohn 2nd BL 33 22nd 22nd 44 32 14 1 13 16 29 26th
1992/93 ECD Sauerland Iserlohn 2nd BL 40 28 51 79 88 3 1 0 1 2
1993/94 ECD Sauerland Iserlohn 2nd BL - - - - - - - - - -
1994/95 ERC Westphalia Dortmund 1. Lg 43 34 25th 59 52 2 1 2 3 0
1995/96 Iserlohner EC 1. Lg 43 20th 35 55 28 2 2 0 2 0
1996/97 Iserlohner EC 1. Lg 39 6th 13 19th 18th 5 1 1 2 0
2. Bundesliga 2B overall 140 69 91 160 110 9 3 1 4th 0

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )
MR championship round; 2B and predecessor / successor leagues (Bundesliga, 1st division)

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personal data
SURNAME Christ, Jerzy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-German ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Katowice , Poland