Max Betzien

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Max Betzien
2019-05-31 BeachVolleyball, Die Techniker beach tour Nuremberg StP 1442 LR10 by Stepro.jpg
2019 in Nuremberg
portrait
birthday March 2, 1994
place of birth Leipzig, Germany
size 1.95 m
Indoor volleyball
position External attack / diagonal
societies
–2006
2006–2009
2009–2011
2011–2012
2012–2014
VC Markranstädt
VC Leipzig
L.E. Volleys
VC Olympia Berlin
SV Lindow-Gransee
successes
2008 - German champion U15
beach volleyball
partner 2011–2013, 2016 Max-Jonas Karpa
2012 Jenne Hinrichsen
2013 Thomas Kaczmarek
2013–2015 Mirko Schneider
2014–2015 Niklas Rudolf
2014, 2016 Toni Hellmuth
2016–2017 Nils Ehlers
2018–2019 Jonathan Erdmann
society VC Olympia Berlin
National ranking Position 6
successes
2012 - 3rd place U20-DM
2012 - German runner-up U19
2013 - 5th place U21 World Cup
2016 - Winner Smart Super Cup Kühlungsborn
2016 - DM fifth
2018 - DM fifth
2019 - Winner Techniker Beach Tour Nuremberg
2020 - Winner Beach- league
Status: July 13, 2020

Max Betzien (born March 2, 1994 in Leipzig ) is a German volleyball and beach volleyball player .

Career hall

As a teenager, Betzien played indoor volleyball at VC Markranstädt , VC Leipzig and the LE Volleys in his home country . In 2008 he became German U15 champion. In 2011/12, the outside attacker played in the junior team of VC Olympia Berlin in the second Bundesliga . He then moved to third division club SV Lindow-Gransee , with whom he was promoted to the second division in 2013.

Career Beach

In 2009 Betzien started playing beach volleyball. With Max-Jonas Karpa he finished fourth at the U18 European Championship in Vilnius in 2011 . The following year he won bronze with Jenne Hinrichsen at the German U20 championship. Then Betzien / Karpa took fifth place at the U19 World Cup in Larnaka , were German U19 runner-up in Kiel and also came fifth at the U20 European Championship in Hartberg . A year later Betzien / Karpa finished fifth again at the U21 World Cup in Umag . Betzien's standard partner in 2013 was Thomas Kaczmarek , with whom he finished ninth in the German championship . In 2014, Betzien first played with Niklas Rudolf and later with Toni Hellmuth , with whom he again finished ninth in the German championship . At the U22 European Championship in Antalya he was fourth with Mirko Schneider . In 2015 Betzien played nationally and internationally, first with Niklas Rudolf and later again with Mirko Schneider, with whom he took 13th place in the German championship .

As of 2016, Nils Ehlers from Berlin was his standard partner, with whom he won the Smart Super Cup in Kühlungsborn and finished fifth in the German championship . After finishing ninth at the 2017 German Championship , the two parted ways. Betzien has been playing with Jonathan Erdmann since 2018 . They finished fifth at the 3-star World Tour tournament in Tokyo and at the German championship . In June 2019 they won the tournament in Nuremberg on the Techniker Beach Tour . In June / July 2020 he took part in the Beach League with Dirk Westphal and won the competition in the final against Alexander Walkenhorst and Sven Winter .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. German ranking list (as of January 2, 2020)
  2. Nils Ehlers surprised at Beach Championship. Märkische Allgemeine, September 13, 2016, accessed on February 21, 2017 .