Rudiger Neitzel

Rüdiger Neitzel (born March 16, 1963 ) is a former German handball player . He played in the left back space .

With the German national team , Neitzel won the silver medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles . In 124 international matches , he threw 334 goals, 21 of them by seven meters . Neitzel was known for his tough pace in defense and a large number of penalty minutes. In the 124 internationals he came to a total of 102 penalty minutes.

In the all-time list of goalscorers in the handball Bundesliga , Neitzel is 33rd with 1,122 goals (266 of them seven meters), which he scored in 265 games (as of July 1, 2007).

Rüdiger Neitzel grew up in Solingen and graduated from the Schwertstraße high school there . Then studied medicine in Cologne . Today he is a specialist in orthopedics and sports medicine , based in Munich .

successes

• Silver medal at the 1984 Olympic Games
• German champion 1985 and 1988 with VfL Gummersbach
• German cup winner 1985 with VfL Gummersbach
• German cup winner 1990 with TSV Milbertshofen
• 1991 European Cup winner with TSV Milbertshofen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics at THW Kiel ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ thw-provinzial.de, Ewige Bundesliga scorers list ( memento of the original from February 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Rüdiger Neitzel specialist in orthopedics and sports medicine

Web links

• Pictures from the Olympic Games 1984 with Rüdiger Neitzel on p.675. (PDF file; 3.5 MB)
• Rüdiger Neitzel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )