Klaus Langhoff

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Klaus Langhoff (2010)

Klaus Langhoff (born December 5, 1939 in Rostock ) is a German handball trainer and former handball player .

Life

Langhoff, whose brother Gerd also played handball, began his career in Rostock and later moved to SC DHfK Leipzig , with whom he was GDR champion several times.

During his active time handball moved from the large field to the hall.

Langhoff was in the squad for the handball national team of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He became world champion with the national team at the 1963 field handball world championship, played at the 1964 indoor handball world championship , the 1966 field handball world championship (vice world champion), the 1967 world indoor handball world championship and the 1970 indoor handball world championship (vice world champion ). He also played at the 1972 Olympics .

After his active career, he became a handball coach at SC Leipzig. Together with Paul Tiedemann, he trained the GDR team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Olympics .

Langhoff is the trainer of the German Handball Federation . Until December 2004 he was head of the DHB youth coach.

Documentary film

  • Participation in: Fallwurf Böhme - The miraculous ways of a left-hander by Heinz Brinkmann , narrator: Wolfgang Winkler , 90 minutes, DVD, Basis-Film Verleih GmbH, Berlin, distribution: KNM Home Entertainment GmbH 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Klaus Langhoff. In: scdhfk-handball.de. Retrieved January 24, 2020 .
  2. www.ihf.info (PDF; 77 kB)
  3. www.scdhfk-handball.de: History , accessed on April 24, 2019
  4. Article in the “handball magazine” on www.thw-provinzial.de