Peter Hofmann (handball player)

Peter Hofmann (born October 17, 1955 in Leipzig ) is a former German handball goalkeeper .

The 1.85 meter tall goalkeeper played for SC Leipzig , from 1990 for SG Wallau / Massenheim in the Bundesliga and later for HSG Dutenhofen / Münchholzhausen in the 2nd handball Bundesliga and for HSC Bad Neustadt in the regional league. In the Bundesliga he completed 145 missions. With 127 seven meter throws held, he is in 28th place in the all-time Bundesliga table. (Status: August 2008) He still occasionally helps out at HSC Bad Neustadt II.

Hofmann played in the squad of the men's national handball team of the GDR at the 1986 World Cup , where he finished third with his team, and at the 1990 World Cup , where he was voted best goalkeeper. At the Olympic Games in 1988 he ran in six games for the GDR . He played a total of 148 international matches. In 1984 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold after the national team won a substitute tournament during the boycotted 1984 Olympic Games .

Web link

• Peter Hofmann in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} www.mittelhessen.de Honored and robbed by Honecker on October 4, 2009, accessed on June 17, 2014
2. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de: Top-10 7m-Killer German National Team (DHB + DHV) , accessed on August 13, 2020
3. ↑ www.main-netz.de
4. ^ New Germany , 1./2. September 1984, p. 4