Peter Trump

Peter Trump

Birthday: December 3, 1950
Place of birth: Frankenthal (Pfalz) , Germany

Clubs in the youth

TG Frankenthal

Clubs as active

TG Frankenthal

Club successes

1969 : German champions (hall) in Wiesbaden
1977 : German champions (hall) in Rüsselsheim
1979 : German champions (field) in Frankenthal
1980 : German champions (hall) in Frankenthal
1980 : German champions (fields) in Frankenthal
1981 : German champions ( Halle) in Rüsselsheim
1982 : German champion (hall) in Hanover
1983 : German champion (hall) in Frankenthal
1983 : German champion (field) in Cologne
1984 : German champion (hall) in Leverkusen
1984 : European championship (field) in Terrassa / E

National team successes

1970: Gold at the European championships (field) in Brussels
1972: Gold at the Olympic Games in Munich
1973: Bronze at the world championships (field) in Amstelveen
1974: Gold at the European championships (hall) in Berlin
1974: Silver at the European championships (field ) in Madrid
1975: silver at the world championships (field) in Kuala Lumpur
1976: gold at the European championships (hall) in Arnhem
1976: gold at the European championships (hall) in Arnhem
1978: gold at the European championships (field) in Hanover
1980: Gold at the European Championships (hall) in Zurich
1980: Silver at the Champions Trophy (field) in Karachi
1981: Bronze at the Champions Trophy (field) in Karachi
1983: Bronze at the European Championships (field) in Amstelveen

* As of June 19, 2013.

Peter Trump (born December 3, 1950 in Frankenthal ) is a former German hockey player and Olympic champion .

He played a total of 213 times for the German national hockey team .

Career

Left winger Peter Trump played for the Frankenthal gymnastics community throughout his career and participated in all ten TG Frankenthal championships; In 1979, 1980 and 1983 he was champion in field hockey, in 1969, 1977 and from 1980 to 1984 Frankenthal won the championship in indoor hockey five times in a row. In 1984 the TG Frankenthal won the European Champion Clubs' Cup.

In 1970 Trump made his debut in the national team and was a substitute for winning the European field hockey championship. 1972 he became a regular player. At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, he was the youngest player in the German team to face the reigning world champion from Pakistan in the final. With a goal by Michael Krause , the team became Olympic champions.

For this he and the German national hockey team received the Silver Laurel Leaf on May 25, 1972.

In the following years Peter Trump played in every major tournament in the German team. After bronze at the field hockey world championship in 1973 , the team won the 1974 European championship in indoor hockey. At the field hockey world championship in 1975 bronze again followed. In 1976 the team became indoor European champions for the second time. At the 1976 Olympic Games , the German team finished fifth. After finishing fourth at the 1978 World Cup , the team won the title at the European Championships in Hanover in the same year. After winning the third European indoor championship title in 1980, the 1980 Olympic boycott was a major setback in the German hockey association's track record. Peter Trump then withdrew from the national team.

As a trainer, he looked after the TG Frankenthal and the HC Blau-Weiß Speyer. Peter Trump is the father of Bundesliga hockey player Andreas Trump, who also played for TG Frankenthal. Christian Trump, a nephew of Peter Trump, currently (2013) plays for the Bundesliga team of Mannheim HC. He emerged from the youth of the TG Frankenthal and was also appointed to the national team in the TG senior division.

Honor

On August 26, 2011, the Lord Mayor of Frankenthal Theo Wieder handed over a new three-field sports hall on Benderstrasse to be used as a school and club sports facility. By resolution of the city council, it bears the name of the Olympic hockey champion: "Peter-Trump-Halle".

literature

• National Olympic Committee for Germany: The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany. Montreal 1976 . Frankfurt am Main 1976

Web links

• Peter Trump in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• TG Frankenthal: history

Individual evidence

1. ^ Die Rheinpfalz , Frankenthal editions: June 11, 1979, January 27, 1980, March 11, 1980 and February 27, 1984
2. ↑ Hockey archive on the homepage of the Rüsselsheim RK: http://www.rrk-online.de/hockey/chronhockey/hodm.htm (accessed on June 15, 2013)
3. ↑ Sports report of the Federal Government of September 29, 1973 to the Bundestag - Printed matter 7/1040 - page 60
4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the city of Frankenthal, accessed on June 14, 2013.