Teoman Öztürk

Teoman Öztürk
Player information
birthday	5th December 1967
place of birth	Berlin , Germany
size	208 cm
position	center
Clubs as active
1987–1991 TuS Lichterfelde Berlin 1991–1997 ALBA Berlin 1997–1999 Galatasaray Istanbul 1999–2000 Fenerbahçe Ülkerspor 2000–2004 ALBA Berlin 2005–2006 TuS Lichterfelde Berlin
National team
1992-1995	Germany	24 games

Teoman Öztürk medal table
Basketball (men)
Germany
European championships
gold	1993 Germany	Germany

Teoman Mehmet Öztürk (born December 5, 1967 in Berlin ) is a former German basketball player of Turkish descent. The German national basketball team won with 2.08 meters tall players in the position of the center in 1993 the European title .

biography

Öztürk was a rower in his youth and began his basketball career late at the age of 20 at TuS Lichterfelde . A year later he was signed by Alba Berlin and made his debut in the German national team. As a result, Öztürk became one of the first players of Turkish origin to wear the jersey with the national coat of arms of Germany in basketball .

Öztürk had a successful career. In 1993 he became European champion with the German team . Two years later he won the Korać Cup with ALBA Berlin . In 1997 he won both the German championship and the cup with ALBA .

At the age of 30, Öztürk went to Turkey and joined the basketball department of Galatasaray Istanbul in 1997 . Two years later he moved to city rivals Fenerbahçe Ülkerspor and returned to Alba Berlin in 2000 after a one-year interlude. There Öztürk became champion in 2001 and won the double again in 2002 . In the autumn of his career he returned to TuS Lichterfelde, where he was a team-mate of the later Olympic participant Philip Zwiener .

Öztürk is married. His daughter Sonnele Öztürk is a swimmer and member of the DSV team. In 2009 he finished his studies as a primary school teacher at the University of Potsdam , where he also acted as a lecturer. Öztürk is a teacher at a school in Dallgow-Döberitz .

successes

• European Champion ( 1993 )
• Korać Cup (1995)
• German champion (1997, 2001, 2002)
• German Cup Winner (1997, 2002)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "These are our 12 giants", Sport-Bild from June 23, 1993, p. 32 f.
2. ↑ tagesspiegel.de - Rotates in the second division
3. ↑ [1]