Kristina Richter

Kristina Richter

Player information
Nickname	"Tina"
birthday	October 24, 1946
place of birth	Zwickau , Germany
citizenship	German
height	1.69 m
Playing position	Back center
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
0000-1965	BSV Sachsen Zwickau
Club career
from ... to	society
1965-1980	Berlin TSC
National team
Debut on	1966
against	Lithuania
	Games (goals)
GDR	235 (880)
As of September 20, 2008

Kristina "Tina" Richter , née Hochmuth , (born October 24, 1946 in Zwickau ) is a former German handball player . She was three times world champion in indoor handball with the national team of the GDR.

Club career

Kristina Richter came to handball in 1963 through athletics . She began in her youth with the BSG activist Karl Marx Zwickau, today's BSV Sachsen Zwickau . When she went to Leipzig to study, she experienced the dissolution of the SC DHfK Leipzig , as coach Peter Kretzschmar did not consider her at SC Leipzig either, so she moved to the Berlin TSC in 1965 . She stayed with the club until the end of her first career in 1980. With her club, she won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1977 and 1979, was GDR champion in 1974, 1977, 1978 and 1980 and won the FDGB Cup in 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1980. In the 1987/1988 season she was at the then GDR League club BVB Berlin made a comeback.

Selection teams

She also played in the GDR women's national handball team . With the national team she won the World Cup in 1971 , the World Cup in 1975 and the World Cup in 1978 . At this world championship she was the top scorer. She won with the team the silver medal at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal and the bronze medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow .

trainer

After 1981 Richter was also active in the handball youth division of the TSC. In 1994 she was a DHB selection trainer. From 1994 she coached the first women's team at the Berlin TSC.

Honors

Kristina Richter was awarded the Bronze Patriotic Order of Merit in 1976 and silver in 1980. In 1980 she was voted handball woman of the year .

At the opening ceremony of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , she was the flag bearer of the GDR team. She was the first German team athlete to receive this honor.

In July 2016 she was inducted into the Hall of Fame of German Sports as the first (and so far only) handball player .

Private

Kristina Richter studied in Leipzig . The qualified sports teacher worked as a primary school teacher for sports and geography. She was married to cycling coach Dagomar Richter (1938–2020) until her husband's death in 2020 , has two children and lives in Mühlenbecker Land .

Her older brother trained the district league club BSG activist Karl Marx Zwickau.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ M. Wagner: Nowitzki in Kristina's footsteps In: Handballwoche 38, 2008, p. 29
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} www.dhb.de , October 22, 2021, accessed on November 4, 2021
3. ↑ https://frauenhandball-archiv.jimdo.com/weltmeisterschaften/wm-1978/ Women's Handball World Championship 1978
4. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required). 
5. ↑ Neues Deutschland, August 22, 1980, p. 3
6. ↑ "Bester Handballer" / "Beste Handballerin" (GDR) on the website Handball in der GDR, accessed on April 14, 2018
7. ↑ 16 new members in the “Hall of Fame of German Sports”. In: hall-of-fame-sport.de. May 24, 2016. Retrieved July 17, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Handball idol Richter celebrates 60th In: Nordkurier from October 24, 2006

literature

• KH Bergmann: Kristina Richter holds the TSC Treue Berliner Zeitung from October 24, 1996

Web links

• Kristina Richter at the Berlin TSC
• Portrait at the Berlin TSC for their 65th birthday
• Kristina Richter in the database of Olympedia.org (English)