Michael Metz

Michael Metz (born June 16, 1964 in Mannheim ) is a former German hockey player and Olympic champion .

Metz began his career at TSV Mannheim , with whom he was three times German youth champion in the B-Youth and A-Youth. He then moved to the Bundesliga for Dürkheimer HC , with whom he won the German championship in field hockey in 1992 and 1993. Metz was part of the victorious German team at the Junior European Championship in 1984 and at the Junior World Championship in 1985. In November 1985, the defender made his debut in the German national hockey team . After bronze at the 1986 World Field Hockey Championships and the 1987 European Field Hockey Championships, he won his first international title at the 1988 European Indoor Hockey Championships. In 1988 in Seoul , Metz won the Olympic silver medal when the German team lost to the British in the final.

After a break, Metz returned to the national team in 1991 and was part of the winning team at the European Indoor Championships. At the 1992 Olympic Games , Metz was part of the team that won the second gold medal for Germany after twenty years. Metz played a total of 141 international matches, 10 of them indoors.

For winning the gold medal, he and the German hockey team received the Silver Laurel Leaf on June 23, 1993.

literature

• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Barcelona 92. The German Olympic team. Frankfurt am Main 1992

Web links

• Michael Metz in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V., VIBSS: The Federal President and his duties in the field of sport: ... On June 23, 1993, Federal President von Weizsäcker ... awarded disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Paralympic Games with the Silver bay leaf made of ...