Tibor Weissenborn
Tibor Weißenborn (born March 20, 1981 in Berlin ) is a German hockey player . With the German national team, he was twice world and European champion and 2008 Olympic champion.
Life
Tibor Weißenborn went to the same kindergarten as Florian Keller . When his father Carsten Keller set up a children's team, Weißenborn was there. Weißenborn played for the Berlin HC until 2004, then moved to the Gladbacher HTC and from there to the Bloemendaaler HC , with the Weißenborn 2006 and 2007 Dutch national champions. He then played for Rot-Weiß Köln , with whom he rose to the first division in 2008.
In 1998 the midfielder made his debut in the German national hockey team . In 1999 Weißenborn became European champion for the first time. In Sydney at the Olympic Games Weißenborn reached fifth place with the German team. In 2001 he was involved in winning the Champions Trophy . Weißenborn was part of the winning team at the 2002 World Cup in Kuala Lumpur. In 2003 he became European champion again. At the 2004 Olympic Games , he won the bronze medal. In 2006 Weißenborn was there when the German team successfully defended the 2002 title at the World Cup in Mönchengladbach. In 2007 he won the Champions Trophy for the second time . After winning the gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing with the German national team after beating Spain 1-0 in the final, he ended his career in the national team.
Tibor Weißenborn has completed 324 international matches, 17 of them indoors.
In 2009 he married the hockey player Kerstin Hoyer .
For his sporting success he received the silver bay leaf .
literature
- National Olympic Committee for Germany: Athens 2004. The German Olympic team . Frankfurt am Main 2004
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ FAZ-Net on the Olympic victory , accessed on August 23, 2008.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weissenborn, Tibor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German hockey player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |