Thomas Huber (water polo player)

Thomas Huber (born November 4, 1963 in Stuttgart ) is a former German water polo player who won an Olympic bronze medal and was European champion in 1989.

Huber began his career at SV Cannstatt . In 1987 he moved to ASC Duisburg , with whom he won the German Cup in 1989.

Since the beginning of 1984, the striker was also part of the German national team. At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, the German team was one of the favorites because of the Olympic boycott of the USSR and Hungary. By winning the bronze medal behind the Yugoslavs and the American hosts, the German players managed to win the only Olympic medal since 1945. Bronze followed at the European Championship 1985 and sixth place at the World Championship in 1986. Both at the European Championship in 1987 and at the Olympic Games in 1988 , the German team narrowly missed the medal ranks with fourth place. In 1989 the German team won the European Championship, with Peter Röhle , Thomas Huber, Rainer Osselmann , Frank Otto , Hagen Stamm and Dirk Theismann still playing six players from the 1984 Olympic squad .

literature

• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Los Angeles 1984. The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany. Frankfurt am Main 1984
• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Seoul 1988. The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany. Frankfurt am Main 1988
• Thomas Huber , in: Internationales Sportarchiv 34/1985 of August 12, 1985, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

• European water polo champion
• Thomas Huber in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )