Martin Schwalb

Martin Schwalb

Martin Schwalb on February 8, 2014 in an interview with Sport1
Player information
birthday	4th May 1963 (age 57)
place of birth	Stuttgart , Germany
citizenship	German
height	1.94 m
Playing position	Back right
Throwing hand	Left
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-1980	TSG Steinheim
1980-1982	TSG Oßweil
1982-1984	Fresh on Göppingen
1984-1988	TV Großwallstadt
1988-1990	TUSEM food
1990-1998	SG Wallau / Massenheim
1999-1999	HC 93 Bad Salzuflen
National team
Debut on	June 29, 1983
against	Romania in Kragujevac
	Games (goals)
Germany	193 (594)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
1998-2005	SG Wallau / Massenheim
2005-2005	HSG Wetzlar
2005-2011	HSV Hamburg
2012-2014	HSV Hamburg
2020–	Rhine-Neckar-Lion
As of February 25, 2020

Martin Schwalb on August 11, 2007 in Ehingen at the Schlecker Cup

Martin Schwalb (born May 4, 1963 in Stuttgart ) is a German former handball player and current handball trainer and sports official. In his active career he played 428 Bundesliga games, in which he scored the fourth-most goals in Bundesliga history with 2272 goals (945 seven meters ). Schwalb played in the right back area .

Martin Schwalb took part in the Olympic Games twice: 1984 in Los Angeles and 1996 in Atlanta . In Los Angeles he won the Olympic silver medal.

From October 21, 2005, he coached the HSV Hamburg team in the handball Bundesliga . Before that, Martin Schwalb was a trainer at HSG Wetzlar and SG Wallau / Massenheim . His greatest successes as a coach were winning the German championship in 2011, winning the DHB Cup in 2006 and 2010, winning the EHF Champions League in 2013 and winning the European Cup Winners' Cup in 2007 with HSV Hamburg. After the 2010/11 season he gave up his coaching position to Per Carlén and was the club's managing director and president in the 2011/12 season. Since March 2012 Schwalb has been training HSV Hamburg again together with Jens Häusler . On July 3, 2014, Schwalb suffered a heart attack and had to undergo emergency surgery. A week later, Christian Gaudin was presented to the Hamburgers as his successor. In 2016 Schwalb became Vice President at HSV Hamburg. Since February 2020 he has been training the Bundesliga club Rhein-Neckar-Löwen . His office as Vice President at HSV will be suspended until the end of his contract period.

successes

Trainer

• 2011 German champion with HSV Hamburg
• 2006, 2009 and 2010 Supercup with HSV Hamburg
• 2013 Champions League winner with HSV Hamburg
• 2007 European Cup Winners' Cup with HSV Hamburg
• 2006 and 2010 DHB Cup with HSV Hamburg
• 2000 and 2010 coach of the year

player

• 193 international matches
• 3 × German champion
• 3 × DHB Cup
• 2 × European Cup winners
• 1984 silver medal Olympic Games Los Angeles
• 1996 top scorer, (230 goals, 102 seven meters)
• 1996 handball player of the year
• 1998 European Championship third in Italy

Others

For the Handball World Cup 2007 was Christian Schwarzer from ZDF as an expert on the live broadcasts provided. He commented on the first two games of the preliminary round, but then had to resign due to his subsequent nomination by Heiner Brand. Martin Schwalb took over the post of ZDF expert for him. At the Handball European Championship 2010 in Austria , he took over the expert position at ARD . Since September 2014 Schwalb has been one of the experts at Sky for their broadcasts of the EHF Champions League and, since the 2017/18 season, also the Bundesliga.

As an ambassador, Martin Schwalb supports the Respekt! No place for racism .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ahlener SG against Bad Salzuflen 1999, relegation games for promotion to the 2nd handball Bundesliga in: YouTube, accessed on April 2nd , 2020
2. ↑ Handball in the north, publisher: Flensborg Avis AG, edition: August 30, 2007
3. ↑ Martin Schwalb new President of HSV Handball. In: hsvhandball.com. June 30, 2011. Retrieved October 25, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Martin Schwalb will return to the bench by the end of the season. In: Abendblatt.de . March 16, 2012.
5. ↑ Martin Schwalb after a heart attack in a clinic on www.kicker.de from July 4, 2014, accessed on July 4, 2014
6. ↑ handball-world.com: HSV confirms Gaudin's commitment and contract extension from July 10, 2014, accessed on July 10, 2014
7. ↑ PRESIDENT MARC EVERMANN APPOINTS NEW PRESIDIUM hsvhandball.com April 21, 2016 ( Memento from April 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ handball-world.news: Martin Schwalb will be the new coach of the Rhein-Neckar Löwen from February 25, 2020, accessed on February 25, 2020
9. ↑ skygo.sky.de: Schwalb is the new Sky Expert ( memento from October 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 25, 2017
10. ↑ Ambassador - Sport. (No longer available online.) Charitable Respect! No space for Rassismus GmbH, archived from the original on February 13, 2015 ; accessed on February 13, 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.  

Web links

Commons : Martin Schwalb  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Martin Schwalb in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Martin Schwalb in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)