Max Weinhold

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Johannes-Maximilian "Max" Weinhold (born April 30, 1982 in Munich ) is a German hockey player . He was the goalkeeper of the German national team, which became Olympic champion in 2008 and 2012.

Max Weinhold and his brother Philipp accompanied their father to the Munich sports club from an early age , where their father played hockey. Both then started playing hockey at Münchner SC. In 2003 and 2006 Max Weinhold was involved in winning the German indoor championship title, and in 2004 the Munich team also won the European Cup in the hall. Via Limburger HC and Schwarz-Weiß Köln , Weinhold came to Rot-Weiss Köln , with whom he became German outdoor champions in 2009, 2010 and 2013. In the hall he was successful with the Cologne team in 2009 and 2012.

Weinhold made his debut in 2003 in the German national hockey team . Weinhold played both in winning the European Indoor Championship in 2006 and in winning the World Indoor Championship in 2007 in the German team. In the open air he was there when he won the 2007 FIH Champions Trophy . Weinhold was nominated as the only German goalkeeper for the Olympic Games in Beijing . Christian Schulte traveled as a substitute in the event that Weinhold was seriously injured. At these summer games, Weinhold managed to reach the finals with the German team in 2008, with Weinhold holding three seven meters in the seven-meter shootout of the semi-finals, including the decisive seven meters of the Dutch Taeke Taekema . In the final against Spain, the German team won 1-0 and became Olympic champions.

After the Olympic victory, Weinhold was involved in other successes of the German national hockey team: in 2009 he was runner-up in the European championship behind England and in 2010 in India he was runner-up in the world championship behind Australia. At the 2011 European Championships in Mönchengladbach, he won the final against the Netherlands with the German team. In 2012 he repeated his triumph in Beijing and won gold with the team at the Olympic Games in London . He then ended his career in the national team and a year later in the Bundesliga after winning the German championship with Rot-Weiß Köln. He was then active as a field player at the Hamburg Polo Club .

Max Weinhold has completed 99 international matches, five of them indoors. With a height of 1.96 m, his competition weight was 99 kg. For his sporting successes he received the silver bay leaf in 2008 and 2012 .

Max Weinhold studied at the German Sport University Cologne .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Club on the Alster also uses itself in Mülheim. nrz.de, September 4, 2014.
  2. ^ Website Deutscher Hockey-Bund e. V. National players: men
  3. ↑ Olympic champions received a silver laurel leaf from the hands of the Federal President Hockey.de, November 2008, accessed on April 8, 2017.
  4. ↑ Award of the Silver Laurel Leaf by the Federal President, November 7, 2012, accessed on April 8, 2017.
  5. ^ Website of the German Sport University Cologne: Well-known students and alumni of the German Sport University Cologne
personal data
SURNAME Weinhold, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weinhold, Johannes-Maximilian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich