Rudi Schumann

Rudi Schumann
portrait
Date of birth	February 15, 1947
place of birth	Großdeuben , Soviet occupation zone
size	1.84 m
position	all
societies
-1959 1959-1963 1963-197x	Großdeuben SC Rotation Leipzig SC Leipzig
National team
1967-1976	GDR national team
successes
1964-1976 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972	GDR master 4th place EM Turkey 4th place Olympic Games Mexico City Winner World Cup GDR Winner World Cup Bulgaria 4th place EM Italy Silver Olympic Games Munich
As of May 10, 2015

Rudi Schumann (born February 15, 1947 in Großdeuben ) is a former volleyball player from the GDR .

Schumann started playing volleyball in Großdeuben and moved to Leipzig in 1959. In 1964 he won the first of his thirteen East German championship titles.

Schumann went through the youth and junior national team and made his debut at the European championship in 1967 in the GDR national team . In 1969 he won the Volleyball World Cup and the following year he was there when the GDR team won the title at the 1970 World Cup in Bulgaria. Schumann was voted the best player of the tournament by the press at the World Cup. After a fourth place at the European Championships in 1971 , the GDR team reached the final at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and received the silver medal after the final defeat against the Japanese team .

After his career, Schumann worked as a university lecturer at the DHfK in Leipzig and was taken over at the University of Leipzig after reunification . In addition to teaching at the university, he also worked as a coach instructor for the International Volleyball Federation.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Lexicon athletes in the GDR. Neues Leben, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-355-01759-6 , p. 423.

Web links

• Rudi Schumann in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Forgotten high flyers (PDF file; 548 KByte)
• Volleyball world champion
• GDR champions in volleyball