Linus Butt
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Linus Butt (born March 12, 1987 in Kempen ) is a German hockey player .
Butt first played in the youth division for the DHB in 2002 . His greatest success was third place at the U21 European Championship in 2008. On October 3, 2008, he made his debut in the German national hockey team . At the end of 2009, the defender and the German team lost to the Australian hosts in the final of the Champions Trophy . The German team also lost to the Australians in the final of the 2010 World Cup in New Delhi. In August 2011, the German team won the final against the Netherlands at the European Field Hockey Championship in Mönchengladbach.
Between 2008 and 2016 Butt played 168 field hockey and 10 indoor hockey internationals for Germany.
Butt has always played for the Crefelder HTC , with whom he became German champion in field hockey in 2006 and indoor hockey in 2007. In 2007 he won the last European Cup with the Krefeld team . On January 17, 2020 it was announced that Butt will play for the Cologne-based HTC Blau-Weiss from the second half of the 2019/20 field season . Butt is studying medicine.
In 2016 he took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he won bronze with the German national hockey team. For this he received the silver bay leaf on November 1, 2016 .
Web links
- Portrait at the German Hockey Association
- Short interview on wz-newsline from 2010 (accessed on July 7, 2012)
- List of national hockey players
- Portrait from 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Federal President: Awarding the Silver Laurel Leaf. In: bundespraesident.de. November 1, 2016, accessed December 8, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Butt, Linus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German hockey player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1987 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kempen |