Siegfried Schneider (volleyball player)
| Siegfried Schneider | |
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| Date of birth | November 12, 1939 |
| place of birth | Forst (Lausitz) , German Empire |
| size | 1.93 m |
| position | attack |
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| 1956-1972 | SC Leipzig |
| National team | |
| 1963-1972 | GDR national team |
| successes | |
| 1963–1972 1966, 1967 1964 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 |
GDR champion FDGB cup winner winner of the European championship cup 4th place in the World Cup Czechoslovakia 4th place in the European Championship Turkey 4th place in the Olympic Games Mexico Winner World Cup GDR Winner in the World Cup Bulgaria 4th place in the European Championship Italy Silver Olympic Games in Munich  |
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As of April 13, 2015 |
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Siegfried Schneider (born November 12, 1939 in Forst (Lausitz) ) is a former German volleyball player and trainer.
Siegfried Schneider began playing volleyball at the age of thirteen in his home town of Forst in Niederlausitz. At the age of 17 he moved to the then GDR top club SC Leipzig , with which he was GDR champion ten times and FDGB cup winner twice , and in 1964 he won the European championship cup . At the same time, he trained as a sports teacher and volleyball coach at the Leipzig Sports University. In the 1960s Schneider had his first assignments for the GDR national team . Since 1967, as a team captain, he was decisively involved in leading the GDR team to the top of the world. In addition to several fourth places in 1966 at the World Cup in Czechoslovakia , in 1967 at the European Championship in Turkey , in 1968 at the Olympic Games in Mexico and in 1971 at the European Championship in Italy , Schneider won the World Cup at home in the GDR with the GDR selection in 1969 1970 World Champion in Bulgaria and in 1972 won the Olympic silver medal in Munich . Then he ended his active volleyball career. From 1973 to 1982 he was a trainer, from 1983 to 1990 manager at SC Leipzig.
In 2009 Siegfried Schneider was the first German to be inducted into the "Volleyball Hall of Fame". In 1972 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.
Web links
- Siegfried Schneider in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- DVV 2009
- Leipziger Volkszeitung 2009 (PDF; 290 kB)
- Siegfried Schneider in the Volleyball Hall of Fame
Individual evidence
- ^ GDR world champion volleyball magazine 08/2006 (PDF file; 562 kB)
- ↑ Hall of Fame (PDF file; 115 kB) ( Memento from February 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
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| SURNAME | Schneider, Siegfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German volleyball player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Forst (Lausitz) |