Sven Glinker

Sven Glinker
portrait
Date of birth	January 24, 1981
place of birth	Berlin, Germany
size	1.98 m
position	External attack / adoption
societies
1990–1991 1991–2001 1999–2001 2001–2004 2004–2006 2006–2007 2007–2008 since 2015	SV Preußen Berlin SCC Berlin VC Olympia Berlin Bayer Wuppertal Aquacare Halen (Belgium) SG Eschenbacher Eltmann Hamburg Cowboys Oshino Volleys Eltmann
National team
99 times 23 times	Youth / junior national team A national team
successes
1999 2000 2000 2003	Vice European Champion Youth DVV Cup Winners German Vice Champion German runner
As of November 11, 2016

Sven Glinker (born January 24, 1981 in Berlin ) is a German volleyball player .

Career

Sven Glinker began his volleyball career in 1990 at SV Preußen Berlin and played at SCC Berlin as a teenager from 1991 . With the youth national team, he was Vice European Champion in 1999. He then played with the German junior team both in the second Bundesliga for VC Olympia Berlin and by means of second-play rights in the Bundesliga for SCC Berlin, with whom he became the 2000 DVV Cup winner and German runner-up. In 2001, the outside attacker switched to league competitor Bayer Wuppertal , with whom he again became German runner-up in 2003. During this time Glinker also played in the senior national team . In 2004 he moved to the Belgian first division club Aquacare Halen . Two years later he returned to the German Bundesliga and played for SG Eschenbacher Eltmann in 2006/07 and for the Hamburg Cowboys in 2007/08 . Because of knee problems, Glinker had to end his volleyball career in 2008. In 2015 Glinker was reactivated and now plays in the second Bundesliga South for the Oshino Volleys Eltmann .

Private

Sven Glinker is now a physiotherapist in Berlin with his own practice. He has been married since 2014. His parents were active in sports in the GDR : mother Petra was a track and field athlete , father Matthias was a national volleyball player . Glinker's younger brother Jan is a soccer goalkeeper .

Web links

• Team VC Olympia Berlin 1999/2000
• Profile at DVV
• Profile at SV Bayer Wuppertal
• Homepage Physiotherapy Glinker

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manfred Schäffer: Promoted team brings ex-national players. Hamburger Abendblatt , August 30, 2007, accessed on November 20, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Kurt Keil: Volleyball: Sven Glinker throws the lasso. Westdeutsche Zeitung , October 29, 2007, accessed on November 20, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Cowboys 1: 3 and Glinker is broken. Bild (newspaper) , February 23, 2008, accessed November 20, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Mathias Bunkus: Jan and Sven Glinker, the family Balla-Balla. Berliner Kurier , January 2, 2005, accessed on October 12, 2015 .