Tanja Dickenscheid

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Tanja Roswitha Dickenscheid (born June 17, 1969 in Mainz ) is a former German hockey player and three-time Olympic participant.

Career

Tanja Dickenscheid first played for the 1910 Gau-Algesheim sports association , then from 1985 for the Rüsselsheim RK , with which she won her first German championship title in the hall in 1990, followed by five other titles by 2002. In field hockey, the Rüsselsheim team won the title in 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997 and 2001. In 2004 the midfielder returned to the team after a break and also won her sixth league title outdoors.

In 1989 Tanja Dickenscheid made her debut in the German national hockey team . At her first major tournament, the 1989 Champions Trophy, she finished third. In early 1990 she won the title at the European Indoor Championships with the German team. At the 1990 World Cup in Sydney, the German team finished eighth. In 1991, the German team won the silver medal at the European Field Hockey Championship after losing to England in the final. The following year, the Spanish hosts were the winners at the Olympic Games in Barcelona , Tanja Dickenscheid received the silver medal after losing 2-1 in the final.

For winning the silver medal at the 1992 Olympics, she received the silver laurel leaf on June 23, 1993.

In 1993 Tanja Dickenscheid was part of the German winning team at a European indoor championship for the second time. At the 1994 World Cup in Dublin, the team finished fourth. After a bronze medal at the European field hockey championship in 1995 , the German team came fourth in the 1995 Champions Trophy, as in the previous year's world championships. At her second Olympic participation in Atlanta in 1996 , she finished sixth with the German team. The German team was more successful at the 1998 World Cup in Utrecht when the team won the bronze medal. After finishing seventh at the Olympic Games in Sydney , Tanja Dickenscheid ended her international career.

Tanja Dickenscheid played 189 international matches between 1989 and 2000, 10 of them indoors.

literature

  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Sydney 2000. The German Olympic team . Frankfurt am Main 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V., VIBSS: The Federal President and his tasks in the field of sport: ... on June 23, 1993, Federal President von Weizsäcker awarded ... disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with the silver laurel leaf ...
  2. ↑ List of German national players
personal data
SURNAME Dickenscheid, Tanja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dickenscheid, Tanja Roswitha (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th June 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz