Rainer Niemeyer

Rainer Niemeyer

Player information
birthday	May 11, 1955
place of birth	Minden , Germany
citizenship	German
date of death	May 8, 2016
Place of death	Minden , Germany
Playing position	goalkeeper
Throwing hand	right
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
0000-1970	TuS Südhemmern
1970-1974	TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1974-1985	TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen
1985-1987	OSC Dortmund
1987-1988	TBV Lemgo
1988-12 / 1989	VfL Hameln
12 / 1989-1990	TuS Nettelstedt
8 / 1990–0000	1. SC Göttingen 05
2 / 1991-1991	SC 04/26 Bielefeld
1991-1992	TuS Nettelstedt
1992-1993	TuS Spenge
0000-0000	HSG Spradow
1 / 1995-2 / 1995	HSV Düsseldorf
National team
Debut on	October 16, 1976
against	Norway in Bremen
	Games (goals)
BR Germany	56 (1)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
1989–0000	TuS Südhemmern
1992-1 / 1993	TuS Spenge (player coach)
1994-1996	HSG Spradow
1996-1997	TuS Nettelstedt (2nd team)
1997-3 / 2003	TSV GWD Minden (2nd team)
3 / 2003-10 / 2004	TSV GWD Minden
4 / 2007-2013	HSG Stemmer / Friedewalde
As of May 8, 2016

Rainer Niemeyer (born May 11, 1955 in Minden ; † May 8, 2016 there ) was a German handball player and coach . The goalkeeper became world champion in 1978.

Career

His career began at TuS Südhemmern. He played for Grün-Weiß Dankersen , TuS Nettelstedt , OSC Dortmund and TBV Lemgo .

In total, Rainer Niemeyer played 232 games in the single-track Bundesliga , which was introduced in 1977: 175 between 1977 and 1985 for TSV GWD Minden , 48 between 1985 and 1987 for OSC Dortmund and nine in the 1987/88 season for TBV Lemgo .

Rainer Niemeyer became world champion in 1978 . For the German men's national handball team , he completed a total of 56 international matches from 1976 to 1983, in which he scored one goal.

International match statistics

year	Games	Gates	7M	Penalties (min.)
1976	4th	0	0	0
1977	7th	0	0	0
1978	7th	1	0	0
1979	13	0	0	0
1980	11	0	0	0
1981	11	0	0	0
1983	3	0	0	0
total	56	1	0	0

Trainer

Since March 13, 2003 he was trainer of the GWD Minden on the initiative of GWD manager Horst Bredemeier . From 2007 he was a coach at the women's second division HSG Stemmer / Friedewalde .

Private

Niemeyer was a teacher for the disabled by profession. His son Arne Niemeyer is also a handball player.

Awards

• Silver bay leaf

Web links

• Niemeyer ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Iris Hellmuth: What is actually ... Rainer Niemeyer doing? Stern , April 13, 2008

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Handball world champion Niemeyer died at the age of 60 . SID article on Eurosport.de , May 10, 2016.
2. ↑ STERN.de. Retrieved November 8, 2017 .