Kim Behrens

Kim Behrens
2017 in Duisburg
portrait
birthday	September 22, 1992
place of birth	Bremen, Germany
size	1.79 m
Indoor volleyball
position	External attack / adoption
societies
until 2007 2007-2016	Bremen TS Neustadt USC Münster
National team
30 times	Youth national team
successes
2011 - German runner-up U20
beach volleyball
Partner	2010–2011 Pia Weiand 2010–2012 Teresa Mersmann 2011 Rieke Brink-Abeler 2011–2014 Sandra Seyfferth 2012 Stefanie Hüttermann 2012 Christine Aulenbrock 2015 Jenny Heinemann 2015–2017 Anni Schumacher 2016 Nadja Glenzke 2017–2018 Sandra Ittlinger 2019– Cinja Tillmann
society	Blaubären TSV Flat
National ranking	Position 5
World ranking	Position 47
successes
2011 - 4th place U20 European Championship 2012 - 13th German Championship 2012 - 5th place U21 World Championship 2013 - 5th place U22 European Championship 2013 - 9th German Championship 2014 - Student Vice World Champion 2014 - 9th German Championship 2014 - 5th place FIVB Open Xiamen 2015 - 9th place German championship 2015 - 5th place FIVB Open Antalya 2016 - victory CEV Satellite Timișoara 2016 - victory CEV Satellite Skopje 2016 - 9th place German championship 2017 - 2nd place FIVB 1-star Shepparton 2017 - 4th place FIVB 2-star Sydney 2017 - Victory Smart Beach Cup Nuremberg 2017 - 2nd place FIVB 1-Star Monaco 2017 - Smart Super Cup Kühlungsborn 2017 - 2nd place CEV Masters Ankara 2017 - CEV Satellite Ljubljana 2017 - 7th German Championship 2017 - 5th place FIVB 3-Star Qinzhou 2017 - 2nd place FIVB 1-Star Aalsmeer 2017 - 5th FIVB 2-Star Sydney 2018 - 9th FIVB 5-Star Fort Lauderdale 2018 - 9th FIVB 4-Star Xiamen 2018 - 5th FIVB 3-Star Mersin 2018 - 9th European Championship 2018 - 9th place FI VB 5-Star Vienna 2018 - 2nd place German Championship 2019 - 5th place FIVB 4-Star Den Haag 2019 - victory Techniker Beach Tour St. Peter-Ording 2019 - victory Techniker Beach Tour Kühlungsborn 2019 - 17th place World Championship 2019 - 9th place European Championship 2019 - 3rd place German championship
As of September 30, 2019

Kim Behrens (born September 22, 1992 in Bremen ) is a German volleyball and beach volleyball player .

Career indoor volleyball

Kim Behrens started playing indoor volleyball at the age of nine in her hometown at TS Neustadt in Bremen . Later she played here in the regional league team, in the Bremen state selection and in the youth national team. In 2007, the outside attacker switched to the volleyball boarding school at USC Münster , where she played in the second division team until 2016 . In the 2009/10 season, she also had several appearances in the first division team of the USC. In 2011, Behrens was German U20 runner-up with USC Münster.

Career beach volleyball

At the Smart Beach Tour 2017 in Nuremberg

Kim Behrens has also been active in beach volleyball since 2010. At first she played with various partners on the Smart Beach Tour and other national tournaments. In 2011 she finished fourth at the U20 European Championship in Tel Aviv alongside Sandra Seyfferth . In 2012 she formed a duo with Stefanie Hüttermann and was on the FIVB World Tour for the first time . At the German championships in Timmendorfer Strand , Behrens / Hüttermann took 13th place. Subsequently, Behrens and Christine Aulenbrock landed in fifth place at the U21 World Cup in Halifax, Canada . In 2013 and 2014 Kim Behrens played again with Sandra Seyfferth. The two defense specialists reached fifth place at the U22 European Championship in Varna and ninth place at the German championships . In 2014, Behrens / Seyffert became student vice world champions in Porto and again finished ninth at the German championships . In 2015, Behrens had various partners, including Jenny Heinemann , with whom she again finished ninth at the German championships . At the Antalya Open , Behrens finished fifth with Anni Schumacher . In 2016 Nadja Glenzke was her partner. Behrens / Glenzke won the CEV satellite tournaments in Timișoara, Romania, and Skopje, Macedonia . Behrens also finished ninth at the 2016 German championships with Glenzke .

In 2017, Behrens made it onto the podium at the FIVB World Tour for the first time in the Australian Shepparton (1 star tournament) alongside Anni Schumacher . Further successes of Behrens / Schumacher were fourth place in Sydney (2 stars) and second place in Monaco (1 star) on the World Tour . There was also a second place on the European CEV Tour at the Masters in Ankara and the victory at the Satellite in Ljubljana as well as the victories at the Smart Beach Cup in Nuremberg and the Smart Super Cup in Kühlungsborn . At the German championship , Behrens / Schumacher finished seventh, it was the last joint tournament because Anni Schumacher ended her active beach career afterwards. From October 2017 to the end of 2018, Behrens formed a team with Sandra Ittlinger that was trained by Kay Matysik . On the FIVB World Tour 2017/18 the two had numerous top ten placements. At the European Championship in the Netherlands , Behrens / Ittlinger finished ninth. In Timmendorfer Strand they became German runners- up after a final defeat against Bieneck / Schneider .

Behrens has been playing alongside Cinja Tillmann since 2019 . In their first season together, they won two tournaments on the National Techniker Beach Tour . Internationally they achieved three 17th places at the 4 star tournaments of the FIVB World Tour in Xiamen , Jinjiang and Espinho , although they were not registered by the German Volleyball Association for six other tournaments in which they would have been eligible to play. In its decision, the association referred to the need to give the national teams preferential international match practice in view of the 2020 Summer Olympics and to have therefore decided against Behrens / Tillmann, against which the team defended itself legally. After a 17th place at the World Championships in Hamburg and a 9th place at the European Championships in Moscow, the duo ended the season with a 3rd place at the German Championships , with Kim Behrens winning the small final against her former partner Sandra Ittlinger.

Professional

After graduating from high school in 2012, Kim Behrens was trained at the Münster Police Department. Currently, she is completing a Psychology - Distance learning .

Web links

Commons : Kim Behrens  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Beach profile at DVV
• Profile at beach-volleyball.de
• Profile at the world association FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German ranking list (as of August 19, 2019)
2. ↑ FIVB world rankings (as of August 19, 2019)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Katja Nonnenkamp: Reunion in the Hanseatic city. (No longer available online.) Weser Kurier , December 7, 2012, formerly in the original ; accessed on March 27, 2014 .  ( 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.    
4. ↑ Pjer Biederstädt: USC juniors become German U20 runners-up. (No longer available online.) Münstersche Zeitung , May 29, 2011, formerly in the original ; accessed on March 27, 2014 .  ( 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.    
5. ↑ Achim Dreis and Christoph Becker: Struggle for the free play of forces. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 26, 2019, accessed on September 6, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Mirko Ludwig: Kim Behrens performs a balancing act between competitive sport and service. Westfälische Nachrichten , July 22, 2013, accessed on March 27, 2014 .