Lukas Kampa

Lukas Kampa
Lukas Kampa 2011
portrait
Date of birth	November 29, 1986
place of birth	Bochum, Germany
size	1.95 m
position	passing
societies
until 2008 2008–2010 2010–2011 2011–2012 2012–2013 2013 2013–2014 2014–2016 since 2016	VC Telstar Bochum SV Bayer Wuppertal TG 1862 Rüsselsheim Volleyball Boarding School Frankfurt Moerser SC VfB Friedrichshafen RWE Volleys Bottrop Copra Elior Piacenza Lokomotiv Belgorod Lokomotiv Charkiw Casa Modena Czarni Radom Jastrzębski Węgiel
National team
176 times	A national team
successes
2005 2009 2010 2012 2012 2013 2013 2014 2015 2015 2017 2017	A-Youth-Champion German Champion German Champion World League-Fifth Olympic-Fifth Russian Cup Winner Ukrainian Champion World Cup-Third Gold Medal European Games Volleyball Player of the Year Vice-European Champion Volleyball Player of the Year 2018 Volleyball Player of the Year
As of December 18, 2017

Lukas Immanuel Kampa (born November 29, 1986 in Bochum ) is a German national volleyball player .

Career

Lukas Kampa started his career in his hometown at VC Telstar Bochum. His mother Sabine was active as a volleyball player there. His brother David Kampa is also a volleyball player and played with Bayer Wuppertal and the RWE Volleys Bottrop at times in the first division. His father Ulrich completed a hundred international matches. Lukas came to the volleyball boarding school in Frankfurt via Wuppertal and Rüsselsheim . There he trained under Stewart Bernard , the former youth national coach and assistant coach of the senior national team . Kampa won the A youth championship in 2005 and moved to Moers a year later. At the beginning of 2008 he was appointed to the national team. From 2008 to 2010 Lukas Kampa played at VfB Friedrichshafen , where he was German champion twice . Since 2010, like his brother, he has been playing for the RWE Volleys Bottrop . When the club ran into financial difficulties in December 2011, Kampa moved to the Italian first division club Copra Elior Piacenza . At the Olympic Games in London 2012 he reached fifth place. Kampa then moved to the Russian club Lokomotiv Belgorod and won the Russian Cup here in January 2013. Then he moved within the Russian league to the Ukrainian club Lokomotiv Charkiw , with whom he became Ukrainian champion. In the summer of 2013 Kampa moved to Italy to Casa Modena and in 2014 to Poland to Czarni Radom . With the national team he won the bronze medal at the 2014 World Cup in Poland . He also received an individual award as the best player at the tournament. In May 2015 Kampa was awarded the Sports Medal of Honor of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. In June 2015 Kampa won the gold medal in Baku at the first European Games and was again the best setter of the tournament. In December he was voted Germany's volleyball player of the year . In 2016, Kampa moved within the Polish league to Jastrzębski Węgiel . In 2017 he was named captain of the German volleyball team and won the silver medal with the team at the European Championships in Poland . In December Kampa was again volleyball player of the year. In 2018 he was voted volleyball player of the year again.

social commitment

Lukas Kampa supports the non-profit association Volleyball ohne Grenzen e. V.

Web links

• Lukas Kampa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait at DVV
• Ranking lists: 2007 ( Memento of March 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 308 kB) - 2008 (PDF; 452 kB) - 2011 (PDF; 459 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ EM squad 2013
2. ↑ Lukas Kampa moves to Piacenza
3. ↑ International: Lukas Kampa to Kharkiv / UKR, Nadja Schaus to Marsala / ITA. (No longer available online.) DVV, January 11, 2013, archived from the original on March 17, 2013 ; Retrieved January 12, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Men's World Cup: Two DVV stars in the World Cup team - prize money for Böhme and Kampa. (No longer available online.) DVV, September 21, 2014, archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; accessed on September 22, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ DVV men: Kampa and Fromm are awarded the NRW Sports Honor Medal. (No longer available online.) DVV, May 12, 2015, archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; accessed on May 12, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Volleyball without limits. Retrieved August 9, 2017 .