Karla Borger
| Karla Borger | |
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| Karla Borger 2016 | |
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| birthday | November 22, 1988 |
| place of birth | Heppenheim, Germany |
| size | 1.80 m |
| Indoor volleyball | |
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–2009 2009–2012 |
TSV Rot-Weiß Auerbach 1. VC Wiesbaden USC Braunschweig Bayer 04 Leverkusen Allianz Volley Stuttgart TV Villingen |
| beach volleyball | |
| Partner | 2009 Rieke Brink-Abeler 2008, 2010–2016 Britta Büthe 2017–2018 Margareta Kozuch since 2019 Julia Sude |
| society | DJK TuSA 06 Düsseldorf |
| National ranking | Position 2 |
| World ranking | Position 16 |
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| 2010 - Student World Champion 2011 - Winner Universiade 2011 - Third place in 2013 - Vice World Champion 2013 - Third place in 2014 - Third Grand Slam Berlin 2014 - Second Grand Slam Gstaad 2014 - German Champion 2015 - Winner Open Luzern 2016 - Third Grand Slam Rio 2016 - European Championship third 2016 - Third major Poreč 2016 - Olympic ninth 2016 - DM third 2017 - DM third 2018 - Third 4-star Ostrava 2019 - Third 3-star Kuala Lumpur 2019 - Fifth 4-star Jinjiang 2019 - Fourth 4-Star Tokyo 2019 - German Champion 2019 - Winner 3-Star Qinzhou 2020 - Winner Beach League |
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| Status: July 13, 2020 | |
Karla Borger (born November 22, 1988 in Heppenheim ) is a German beach volleyball player . She won the Universiade and became vice world champion in 2013. In 2014 and 2019 she became German champion and in 2016 she took part in the Olympic Games.
Career
Karla Borger initially played indoor volleyball at TSV Rot-Weiß Auerbach , 1st VC Wiesbaden , USC Braunschweig , Bayer 04 Leverkusen and until 2009 in the volleyball Bundesliga at Allianz Volley Stuttgart . In the 2009/10 season Karla Borger was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga with the regional league team of TV Villingen , where she played until 2012.
As a beach volleyball player, Borger took fifth place with Britta Büthe at the 2008 Junior World Championship in Brighton . In 2009 she formed a duo with Rieke Brink-Abeler . In the open tournaments of the FIVB World Tour in Osaka and Seoul , Borger / Brink-Abeler took 17th place. Then they were subject to the German competitors in the "Country Quota" at the Grand Slams in Gstaad , Moscow , Marseille and Klagenfurt as well as the Stare Jabłonki and Barcelona Open. At the U23 European Championships in Jantarny , Borger and Julia Sude came third. Borger has played with Britta Büthe since 2010. In June 2010 the duo became student world champions in Alanya . At the U23 European Championships in Kos Borger / Büthe reached ninth place. On the World Tour they came in 17th place in Phuket . In 2011, she climbed to 13th place in Mysłowice , before finishing ninth in the top ten for the first time in the Grand Slam in Beijing . They achieved the same result at the Grand Slams in Gstaad and Stare Jabłonki. They also won the Challenger tournament in Seoul and the Masters in Niechorze . However, Borger / Büthe celebrated their greatest success so far at the Universiade in Shenzhen , which they won in the final against the Americans Hughes / Day . In the German championship they came third.
In 2012 Borger / Büthe started with three 17th places at the Brasília and Sanya Open as well as the Grand Slam in Shanghai . At the European Championships in Scheveningen they came third in the group and reached the quarter-finals by beating German competitors Sara Goller and Laura Ludwig , in which they had to admit defeat to the later third-placed Liliana / Baquerizo . At the Grand Slam in Rome, like at the European Championship, she was fifth. As ninth in Gstaad and Stare Jabłonki, they achieved further top ten results. They finished the German championship in fifth place.
They started the 2013 season with 17th place in Fuzhou . Then they finished ninth in Shanghai and fifth in Corrientes . They won the tournament in Hamburg on the national Smart Beach Tour . At the World Cup in Stare Jabłonki , they reached the knockout phase as group winners and, with four more victories, were the first Europeans to reach a World Cup final. They lost this in the tiebreak against the Chinese Xue Chen and Zhang Xi . After Büthe was injured, Borger competed with Elena Kiesling at the European Championships in Klagenfurt . They finished the preliminary round in third place behind Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst ; afterwards they defeated Victoria Bieneck and Julia Großner in the first knockout round before they were eliminated in the round of 16 against the Austrian sisters Doris and Stefanie Schwaiger . At the Grand Slam in Berlin Borger finished ninth with Julia Sude, as well as ninth in Moscow and São Paulo with Büthe. In the German championship 2013 Borger / Büthe finished third.
On the World Tour 2014 they consistently achieved top ten placements, initially two fifth places at the Grand Slam in Shanghai and the Prague Open. At the EM in Quartu Sant'Elena they reached the knockout phase as second in the group. After two more victories, there was a German duel in the quarterfinals, which Borger / Büthe lost to Ludwig / Walkenhorst. At the Grand Slams in Moscow and Berlin, they finished fifth and third. In Gstaad they played in a German final against Ilka Semmler and Katrin Holtwick and had to admit defeat in two sets. The Grand Slam in The Hague was the only international tournament that year that they didn't finish in the top ten. This was followed by ninth places in Long Beach and Stare Jabłonki and a fifth place in Klagenfurt . With a final victory against Ludwig / Sude, Borger / Büthe won their first national title at the German championship in 2014 . Then they also won the CEV Satellite in Stuttgart . They finished the international season with a ninth place in São Paulo. For the 2014 season, Borger was named “Best Server” by the FIVB .
In May 2015, Borger / Büthe won the final at the Lucerne Open against the Dutch Meppelink / van Iersel and thus achieved their first tournament victory on the World Tour. After a 25th place in the Grand Slam in Moscow, they achieved top ten results again as fifth in the Poreč and Stavanger majors and fourth in the Grand Slam in Saint Petersburg . At the World Cup in the Netherlands , they were the best of three teams with equal points in their preliminary group, but were eliminated in the first knockout round against Canadians Pavan / Bansley . There was also a 17th place in the Gstaad Major. After finishing ninth in the Grand Slam in Yokohama, Borger suffered from a blockage of the hip joint that she sustained at the previous Grand Prix in Yokohama. Therefore, she could not play with Britta Büthe for the last group game. The European Championship ended prematurely for the German duo. After that, Karla Borger was out for the rest of the 2015 season.
At the beginning of 2016 Borger / Büthe came back to the FIVB World Tour with a fifth place at the Maceió Open . They finished third at the Grand Slam in Rio de Janeiro . In the following open tournaments they reached four fifth and one ninth place. They also finished fifth at the Grand Slam in Moscow. In the preliminary round and in the second round of the European Championship in Biel / Bienne , they defeated the competitors from Austria and Switzerland before they prevailed against Semmler / Holtwick in the German quarter-finals. The semi-final defeat against Sluková / Hermannová made them third and won the first European Championship medal of their career. After a ninth place at the Hamburg Major, they won the German duel for third place against Ludwig / Walkenhorst at the major tournament in Poreč . Then they finished ninth in Gstaad and fifth in Klagenfurt. As the seventh best team in the Olympic rankings, they qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . There they came third in the group via the playoff round "Lucky Loser" in the round of 16, in which they had to admit defeat to the Brazilian Larissa / Talita, who were in first place. With that they finished the tournament in ninth place. They then finished fifth in the Grand Slam in Long Beach . At the German championship they lost to the Olympic champions Ludwig / Walkenhorst in the semifinals and won the game for third place against Gernert / Zautys .
After Büthe's career ended, Borger played alongside the 336-time indoor national player Margareta Kozuch from 2017 . On the national Smart Beach Tour , Borger / Kozuch took podium places at the Supercups in Münster, Kühlungsborn and Binz. The best result on the FIVB World Tour was a fifth place at the 3-star tournament in Moscow. Borger / Kozuch received one of three wild cards for the World Championships in Vienna and ended up in 17th place. At the European Championships in Jūrmala , Borger / Kozuch reached the round of 16 as group winners, in which they were defeated by the later European champions Glenzke / Großner and finished ninth. At the German championship they were defeated in the semifinals to the later winners Laboureur / Sude and won the game for third place against Bieneck / Schneider . In November Borger / Kozuch received the status of "German national team" from the DVV . Borger / Kozuch's best result on the 2018 World Tour was a third place at the 4-star tournament in Ostrava .
After Kozuch formed a new duo with Laura Ludwig , Borger played with Julia Sude in 2019 . Borger / Sude won the national Techniker Beach Tour 2019 in Münster and finished ninth at the world championship in Hamburg . On the FIVB World Tour , third place in Kuala Lumpur (3-star), fifth place in Jinjiang (4-star) and fourth place in Tokyo (4-star) were their best results. After 2014, she won her second title at the German championship in Timmendorfer Strand. At the beginning of November Borger / Sude won the 3-star tournament in Qinzhou .
In June / July 2020 she took part in the Beach League with Svenja Müller and won the competition in the final against Melanie Gernert and Sarah Schulz .
family
Karla Borger is the daughter of Cordula Pütter , the 1995 European beach volleyball champion .
Web links
- Portrait at beach-volleyball.de
- Beach profile at DVV
- Profile at the world association FIVB (English)
- Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
- Karla Borger in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Ranking lists: 2008 (PDF; 533 kB) , 2009 (PDF; 418 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ German ranking list (as of January 2, 2020)
- ↑ FIVB world rankings (as of March 16, 2020)
- ^ TV Villingen: Karla Borger says goodbye for good. Südkurier, May 24, 2012, accessed July 7, 2013 .
- ↑ A successful reunion. (No longer available online.) Stuttgarter Nachrichten , June 28, 2010, archived from the original on August 5, 2016 ; accessed on August 6, 2016 .
- ↑ Universiade: Borger / Büthe win the gold medal. (No longer available online.) Volleyballer.de, August 20, 2011, archived from the original on August 5, 2016 ; accessed on August 5, 2016 .
- ↑ Borger / Büthe miss world titles. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 6, 2013, accessed on August 5, 2016 .
- ↑ A mega success. Volleyball Magazine, August 2013, accessed August 5, 2016 .
- ↑ Walsh Jennings wins four 2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball awards FIVB, January 26, 2015, Accessed March 18, 2015
- ↑ Beach Volleyball EM: Karla Borger and Britta Büthe end the EM 2015 in Klagenfurt prematurely due to injury. volleyballer.de, July 30, 2015, accessed August 6, 2016 .
- ↑ Borger / Kozuch new beach team. German Volleyball Association , October 6, 2016, accessed on October 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Matthias Penk , Annika Schultz: Julia Sude will play alongside Karla Borger in the future. beach-volleyball.de, January 10, 2019, accessed on January 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Gabi Wesp-Lange: The traces of the Borgers in the Bundesliga. Echo online, August 16, 2012, archived from the original on July 9, 2013 ; Retrieved July 7, 2013 .
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| SURNAME | Borger, Karla |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German volleyball and beach volleyball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heppenheim , Germany |