Timo Wess
Timo Wess 
Timo Wess, 2012
Birthday: July 2, 1982
Place of birth: Moers , Germany
Club information
Club: Rot-Weiss Köln
Position: Defense
Clubs in the youth
1988–1995: Moerser SC
1995–2003: Uhlenhorst Mülheim
Clubs as active
1995–2003: Uhlenhorst Mülheim
2003–2004: Crefelder HTC
2004–2005: Uhlenhorst Mülheim
2005–2007: Crefelder HTC
since 2007: Rot-Weiss Köln
Club successes
2006 and 2009: German men's field hockey champion
National team successes
1997: Silver 2nd place 6-nation tournament of the U16 in Cologne
1998: Gold 6-nation tournament Winner of the U16 in Milton Keynes
2000: Silver 2nd place Junior European Championship in Madrid
2001: Gold Champions Trophy winner of the men in Rotterdam
2001: Gold European Youth Trophy Winner of the U18 in Hamburg
2001: Bronze 3rd place Junior World Championship in Hobart
2002: Gold World Champion at the Hockey World Championship in Kuala Lumpur
2003: Gold Men's European Champion in Barcelona
2004: Bronze at the Olympic Games in Athens
2005 : Bronze 3rd place European Championship for Men in Leipzig
2006: Silver 2nd place Champions Trophy Men Terrassa
2006: Gold World Champion for Men in Mönchengladbach
2007: Gold World Champion in indoor hockey for men in Vienna
2007: 4th place for European Field Hockey Championship for Men in Manchester
2008: Gold at the Olympic Games in Beijing
2012: Gold at the European Indoor Hockey Championships in Leipzig
2012: Gold at the Olympic Games in London
Timo Wess (born July 2, 1982 in Moers ) is a former German hockey player and was the captain of the German national team . He is the older brother of Benjamin Wess .
Timo Wess, who had given up playing hockey in his youth in favor of football and finally decided to hockey at the age of 14, began his hockey career in the now disbanded hockey department of Moerser SC.
He played for the national team for the first time on February 26, 2001 in a friendly against India . A year later he became world champion with the German national team in Kuala Lumpur .
In 2006 he became world champion with the German national team in Mönchengladbach . He made a direct contribution to the German team's entry into the finals in this tournament by stopping an opponent's ball on the goal line three minutes before the end of regular time in the semifinals against Spain , thus keeping the way into extra time for Germany. He has been the team captain of the German national hockey team since the 2004 Athens Olympic Games . After the Olympic victory in 2008, he was no longer part of the squad at the major international championships. In 2012 he returned to the European Indoor Championships and helped win the title. At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 he won the gold medal with the German national hockey team for the second time in a row.
Wess had been a player in the hockey Bundesliga at Rot-Weiss Köln since the 2007/2008 season , previously he played for the Crefeld HTC . In Cologne he continued to play with his brother Benjamin . In September 2012, Wess announced his retirement from competitive sports. He played a total of 264 international matches, twelve of them indoors.
Timo Wess was considered one of the world's best defensive players and an excellent defensive strategist. A particular strength of "Wesa" (nickname) were his sharp penalty corners. Wess was one of the very few players in the world who could flick the hockey ball almost all over the hockey field.
Web links
- Information on hockey-olympia.de ( Memento from January 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- profile
Individual evidence
- ↑ Samsung Indoor World Cup 2007 ( Memento from August 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ "Weß brothers leave Krefeld", Rheinische Post dated November 14, 2006
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wess, Timo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German hockey player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd July 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moers |