Manfred Winter (basketball player)

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Manfred Winter (born January 19, 1963 in Paderborn ) is a German sports journalist and former basketball player . The journalist works primarily as a television reporter , commenting in particular on basketball games. The former junior national player himself won three German championships with Bayer Leverkusen and Saturn Cologne and later played in the basketball league with his parent club from Paderborn .

Player career

Winter took his first steps as a basketball player in his hometown of Paderborn before moving to TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen . He made the leap into the men's team of the multiple German champions in Leverkusen and won the title in the basketball league in 1984/85 with the Rhinelander . He later played for Saturn Cologne in the Bundesliga and won other German championship titles in 1987 and 1988. After the insolvency of the Cologne club, Winter moved back to his parent club in Paderborn, whose men's team now played in the 2nd basketball division . With this team he achieved promotion to the basketball league in 1994/95 , which, however, ended with immediate relegation. Soon after, Winter ended his playing career.

As a selection player, Winter 1979 had achieved fourth place with the German youth national team at the European Cadet Championship (EM), before taking fifth place in the junior team of the DBB in 1982 together with Detlef Schrempf and Christian Welp at the 1982 European Junior Championship . At the U-19 basketball world championship in 1983 in the Balearic Islands that followed a year later , in which the eventual title winner United States was surprisingly defeated just after extra time, it was enough to finish fifth again.

Journalist career

In addition to his basketball career, Winter studied sports journalism at the Sports University in Cologne and was a fellow student of Frank Buschmann . He worked in the offices of Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne and Bielefeld. In 1996 he came to DSF in Munich and made a name for himself primarily as a commentator on basketball games. After the crisis of the Kirch Group and the insolvency of KirchMedia, he went into business for himself and in the following years worked as a freelance journalist for the broadcasters Sport1 , Premiere , Sky Deutschland , Rheinmain TV and Center TV, among others .

Web links

  • Manfred Winter - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Experts think ...: Today by Manfred Winter . In: Deutscher Basketball Bund (Ed.): DBB-Journal . No. 39 , July 2014, p. 41 ( basketball-bund.de [PDF; 5.7 MB ; accessed on January 14, 2017] information on the "Vita").
  2. ↑ a b c d Anke Stakemann, Stephan Frisch: Tip-Off - Skybembels fan magazine: Interview with Manfred "Manni" Winter. In: www.skybembels.de. February 2010, accessed January 7, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Beko BBL: Manfred Winter about FC Bayern and Brose Baskets Bamberg. Sport1.de , May 25, 2016, accessed on January 7, 2017 (in the epilogue).
  4. ↑ archive.fiba.com: 1983 World Championship for Junior Men - USA vs Germany. FIBA , accessed on January 14, 2017 (English, game statistics).
  5. ↑ Premiere and Basketball Bundesliga sign a three-year television contract . In: presseportal.de . ( presseportal.de [accessed on January 7, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Winter, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player and sports journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Paderborn