Ralph Bergmann

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Ralph Bergmann
Ralph Bergmann
Photo Heimken
portrait
Date of birth May 26, 1970
place of birth Ruit on the Fildern , Germany
size 2.06 m
position Diagonal, middle block
societies
1983–1987
1987–1988
1988–1991
1991–1994
1994–1995
1995–1998
1998–1999
1999–2002
2002–2004
2004–2005
2005–2006
2006–2007
2007–2008
2008
2009 		TV Schledehausen
VfL Lintorf
VBC Paderborn
Moerser SC
1. SC Norderstedt
SV Bayer Wuppertal
Castêlo da Maia
Go Pass Lennik
Knack Randstad Roeselare
Noliko Maaseik
Paris Volley
Aon hotVolleys Vienna
Moerser SC
PAOK Thessaloniki
Halkbank Ankara
National team
225 missions in the A national team
successes
1992, 1997
1993
2006
2007
2008 		German champion
DVV cup winner
French champion
Austrian champion
Olympic Games Beijing

As of April 2, 2009

Ralph Bergmann (born May 26, 1970 in Ruit auf den Fildern , now part of Ostfildern ) is a former German national volleyball player .

Career as a player

Ralph Bergmann began his career at the small TV Schledehausen in the Lower Saxony province. He came to Moerser SC in the Bundesliga via VfL Lintorf and VBC Paderborn . With the MSC he became German champion in 1992 . A year later he won the DVV Cup . He then reached fourth place with the senior national team at the European Championships in Finland . Two years later it was only eighth at the European Championships in Greece . With his new club SV Bayer Wuppertal , the national player became German champions again in 1997. In the summer he experienced his third European championship . Two more tournaments followed in 1999 and 2001 . After leaving Wuppertal, Bergmann left the Bundesliga and went abroad. First he played in Portugal, then he was active in Belgium with Knack Randstad Roeselare and Noliko Maaseik . In the 2005/06 season he was French champion with Paris Volley . Then he switched to the Aon hotVolleys in Vienna . At the 2006 World Cup in Japan , the internationally experienced volleyball player finished ninth with the national team. His sixth European Championship ended in 2007 in Russia in fifth place. In the 2007/08 season Bergmann played again in the Bundesliga with his old club Moerser SC. At the end of his long national team career, he reached ninth place at the Olympic Games in Beijing in August 2008. He then moved back abroad to PAOK Thessaloniki , where he was released in November 2008. After a brief stint in Turkey at Halkbank Ankara , Ralph Bergmann ended his career as a competitive athlete in June 2009.

Career as a coach

From 2009 to 2011 Bergmann trained the volleyball men at VfL Lintorf , with whom he was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2010 . After his immediate relegation to the Regionalliga Nordwest, Bergmann was a coach at the league competitor FC Schüttorf 09 from 2011 to 2013 . Here he became champion in 2012 and rose to the 2nd Bundesliga .

From November 2011 to 2013 Bergmann was also assistant coach of the German men's national volleyball team . Since 2013 he has been working full-time as a "state trainer and national base trainer Beach" at the West German Volleyball Association.

Private

Bergmann suffered a stroke in 1992 that resulted in temporary paralysis. The doctors diagnosed a congenital heart defect that put his athletic career at risk.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chronicle VBC Paderborn (PDF file; 296 kB)
  2. ↑ WVV-Trainer ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wvv-volleyball.de

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personal data
SURNAME Bergmann, Ralph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German national volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruit on the Fildern , Germany