Martina Hallmen

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Martina Hallmen (born May 20, 1959 in Frankfurt am Main as Martina Koch ) is a former German hockey player and Olympic participant.

Career

Martina Hallmen played for the 1st Hanauer THC , with whom she won the German championship in field hockey in 1981 and 1984 under her birth name Martina Koch, and in 1983 she was German champion in indoor hockey.

The attacking player made her debut in 1977 in the German national hockey team . Their first major tournament was the 1977 European Indoor Championship, where the German team won the title. The following year, the German team lost 1-0 to the Netherlands in the final of the 1978 World Cup . In 1981 Martina Koch won two major titles with the German team. First the team defended the European championship title indoors, then the team won the World Cup in Buenos Aires after a seven-meter shootout against the Netherlands. Two years later, she finished fourth at the 1983 World Cup . In May 1984, the first women's field hockey European championship was held in Lille , after a semi-final defeat by the Dutch, the German players won the bronze medal against the British. Two months later, the Dutch defeated the German team at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles 6-2, with Martina Koch scoring both German goals. The German team won silver behind the Dutch and ahead of the Americans.

In 1987, after a long break, she returned to the German national team as Martina Hallmen and won her third title at a European indoor championship. At the end of her international career, Martina Hallmen took fifth place with the German team at the 1988 Olympic Games . Martina Hallmen played a total of 119 international matches from 1977 to 1988, 19 of them indoors.

literature

  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Los Angeles 1984. The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany . Frankfurt am Main 1984
  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Seoul 1988. The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany . Frankfurt am Main 1988

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the statistics of the German Hockey Federation she is listed as Martina Hallmen after her marriage, in the Sports Reference database she is listed as Martina Koch-Hallmen, in the 1988 Olympic brochure she is called Martina Hallmen-Koch. In most cases where it is unclear whether an athlete actually competed under a double name, the athlete never had a double name. It is assumed that in the present case, too, the double name only served to clarify that the athlete was already successful under her maiden name.
  2. ↑ Winning teams at European indoor hockey championships
  3. ↑ List of German national players
personal data
SURNAME Hallmen, Martina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cook, Martina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main