Matthias Witthaus

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Matthias Witthaus (born October 11, 1982 in Oberhausen ) is a German hockey player . The attacker is the record player for the German national hockey team and won the gold medal at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games .

Life

Witthaus grew up in Ratingen . He started his hockey career in 1988 at HTC Uhlenhorst Mülheim . Other stations in his career were Bundesliga club Crefelder HTC and Atletico Terrassa . With Terrassa he became Spanish champion. Then Witthaus played at Crefelder HTC, with whom he became German champion in 2006. In the fall of 2008 he moved back to Atletico Terrassa, with whom he played in the Euro Hockey League in 2009 . In 2009 he went to the Real Club de Polo de Barcelona , with whom he reached the European Cup semi-finals. In 2010 he moved to Mannheimer HC . Witthaus is currently active as a player coach in the first men's team of the Hamburg Polo Club .

Matthias Witthaus made his debut in the German national hockey team on June 3, 1999 during a friendly against Belgium in Krefeld . This makes Witthaus the youngest player who has ever played for the German national hockey team and also the youngest player to score a goal. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney he was fifth with the German team. Two years later he became world hockey champion .

In 2003 Witthaus won three titles with the national team, the European Indoor Championship, the World Indoor Championship and the European Championship. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , he won the bronze medal. The team won the same place at the European Championships the following year. At the 2006 World Cup in Germany, Witthaus was hockey world champion for the second time.

In Beijing at the 2008 Olympic Games , Witthaus and the German team won 1-0 in the final against Spain and became Olympic champion. He was runner-up behind England in the 2009 European Championship. In February 2011 he was part of the successful team at the 2011 World Indoor Hockey Championship . In August 2011, the German team won the final against the Netherlands at the European Field Hockey Championship in Mönchengladbach. In 2012 Witthaus became European indoor champion. In his last game in the national dress he won with the German team in the final of the Olympic Games in London 2-1 against the Netherlands.

Witthaus made 356 international matches, 29 of them indoors. (As of June 24, 2012) With his 350th international match, he replaced Philipp Crone as the record international player in 2012 . In 2002 and 2008 he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf . He studied sports science in Cologne, graduating in 2012 with a diploma.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Michel: Great reception for Olympic champion Matthias Witthaus , Westdeutsche Zeitung August 31, 2012
  2. ↑ 1. Gentlemen | Hamburg Polo Club. In: hamburger-polo-club.de. Retrieved December 11, 2016 .
  3. ^ Witthaus sole national hockey player , Free Press May 6, 2012
  4. ↑ Team London Metropolitan Region Rhine-Neckar
  5. ↑ Nils Jewko: Golden Boy Witt House: Ratingen close to my heart , RP Online August 14, 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Witthaus, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German field hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen