Patrick Thomas

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Patrick Thomas
Patrick Thomas.jpg
DM 2013 in Ahlhorn
portrait
Date of birth 2nd June 1992
place of birth Seeheim-Jugenheim, Germany
size 199 cm
position attack
societies
since 2007 TSV Pfungstadt
National team
since 2009 75 international matches (19 youth / 3 juniors / 53 men)
successes
German champion
European
cup winner
World cup winner World champion
World Games winner
European champion

As of May 26, 2019

Patrick Thomas (born June 2, 1992 in Seeheim-Jugenheim ) is a German fistball player . He plays both in the field season and in the indoor season at TSV Pfungstadt in the 1st Bundesliga South . He made his international debut in August 2010 during the major international tournament in Jona (Switzerland).

Career

TSV Pfungstadt

Patrick Thomas' successful career began in 2010 with the promotion of his home club TSV Pfungstadt to the first Bundesliga South. As the outstanding attacker in world fistball, he won the first national field fistball title right after promotion. In the years 2011–2013 another three DM titles followed. In the indoor season 2012/13 he and his team were able to secure the German indoor title in Coburg for the first time .

Internationally, he drew attention to himself with TSV Pfungstadt in 2011, when they only narrowly failed in the semifinals of the European Champions Cup against the eventual European Cup winner Union Schick Freistadt . In 2012, however, the revenge succeeded and he and his team were able to bring the European Cup title to Pfungstadt for the first time in the final in Grieskirchen. A year later, the title was defended against another Austrian representative, the FG Grieskirchen, in the Swabian Unterhaugstett.

The next high point at club level came in October 2013, when he and his club lost in the decisive set against Brazilian representative Novo Hamburgo at the World Cup for club teams in Windhoek, Namibia, and narrowly missed the biggest title in club world fistball.

A year later he managed to win the World Cup for the first time with his team in their home town of Pfungstadt. Against the Brazilian team Clube Duqué de Caxias from Curitiba , he won the final 4-0 (11: 7; 11: 4; 11: 6 and 11: 9). In 2016 he and his team defended the title in Cape Town against the Brazilian Club Mercês, also 4-0 (12:10, 11: 6, 11: 4, 11: 9).

National team

At the age of 18, Patrick Thomas made his international debut in the German men's national team at the top international tournament in Jona . Subsequently, he was nominated for the European Championship in Ermatingen , where the team was able to achieve 3rd place.

Thomas won his first world championship title in Austria in 2011 , when the 19-year-old led his team to victory against the hosts in front of over 7,000 spectators and was able to bring the title back to Germany after 16 years and surprisingly at the time.

At the World Games 2013 in Colombia , Patrick Thomas was again an indispensable part of the national team when he was able to bring another major title to Germany.

In 2014 he became European champion in Olten in 2014 and thus achieved something that no one before him had achieved: at the age of 22, having won all the titles that could be won with both the club and the national team.

In November 2015 he repeated Austria's World Cup success and won the World Cup in Cordoba with the national team .

In 2016 in Grieskirchen (Austria) and 2018 in Adelmannsfelden (Germany) he defended the European title.

successes

National team
Association (national)
  • 2010: German champion (field)
  • 2011: German champion (field)
  • 2012: German champion (field)
  • 2012/13: German champion (hall)
  • 2013: German champion (field)
  • 2013/14: German champion (hall)
  • 2014: German champion (field)
  • 2014/15: German champion (hall)
  • 2015: German champion (field)
  • 2015/16: German champion (hall)
  • 2016: German champion (field)
  • 2016/17: German champion (hall)
  • 2018: German champion (field)
  • 2018/19: German champion (hall)
  • 2019: German champion (field)
  • 2019/20: German champion (hall)
Association (international)
  • 2012: European Cup winner (field)
  • 2013: European Cup winner (field)
  • 2014: European Cup Winner (Halle)
  • 2014: World Cup winner (field)
  • 2015: European Cup Winner (Halle)
  • 2015: European Cup winner (field)
  • 2016: European Cup Winner (Halle)
  • 2016: European Cup winner (field)
  • 2016: World Cup winner (field)
  • 2017: European Cup Winner (Halle)
  • 2018: European Cup winner (field)

Honors

On October 25, 2013, Federal President Joachim Gauck honored him with the Silver Laurel Leaf for the World Games title in Colombia , the highest honor for German athletes. For re-winning the World Games in Wroclaw ( Breslau ), he was awarded on 13 October 2017 in Berlin for the second time, the Silver Laurel Leaf.

Private

Patrick Thomas follows in the footsteps of his father Dieter Thomas, who was a very successful fistball player himself during his playing days and was multiple world and European champion with the national team and won a total of ten German championship titles at club level. His brother Sebastian Thomas plays with him at TSV Pfungstadt and in the national team. Together they became world champions in Argentina in 2015.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stammheim celebrates the European champion ( Memento from November 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Article from September 2, 2014 on the website of Fistball-Stammheim
  2. ↑ bundespraesident.de: Information on the award of the Silver Laurel Leaf (accessed on November 1, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Thomas, Patrick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langer (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fistball player
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd June 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Seeheim-Jugenheim , Germany