Uwe Ossenbrink

Uwe Ossenbrink (born February 4, 1970 ) is a German badminton player and coach.

Career

Uwe Ossenbrink became German champion for the first time in 1992 after winning numerous medals in the junior division and at the West German level. Another title followed in 1994. In 1993 he won the Hungarian International. He played 15 years in the Bundesliga - 14 of them for Tus Wiebelskirchen and won the German team championship twice. He took part in world and European championships. In his special discipline men's doubles, the highest world ranking was 17th. He narrowly missed the qualification for the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Since 1992 he has been working for UKV Krankenversicherung AG as an insurance salesman. In 2002 he started as a trainer and has since worked for Wiebelskirchen, the Saarland State Sports Association and for the DBV. Since 2006 he has been a senior coach for badminton. From 2007 to 2008 he worked as a freelance coach, from 2009 to 2013 as assistant coach for men's doubles at the federal base in Saarbrücken and since January 1, 2013 as national coach for men's doubles. Three of his athletes (Fuchs, Schöttler, children's father) started at the 2012 Olympics. In 2013, his protégés became European champions with the team.

Ossenbrink lives in Saarland and has been married to sports journalist Ann-Iren Ossenbrink since 1999.

Sporting successes

season	event	discipline	space	Surname
1983/1984	West German individual championship U14	Men's doubles	1	Atorf Lars / Ossenbrink Uwe (1st BC Leverkusen / TG ​​Ahlen 1897)
1983/1984	German individual championship U14	Men's doubles	1	Lars Atorf / Uwe Ossenbrink (1st BC Leverkusen / TG ​​Ahlen 1897)
1984/1985	German individual championship U16	Mixed	1	Uwe Ossenbrink / Claudia Andres (TG Ahlen 1897 / SSV Heiligenwald)
1984/1985	German individual championship U16	Men's doubles	2	Lars Atorf (1st BC Leverkusen) / Uwe Ossenbrink (TG Ahlen)
1985/1986	West German individual championship U16	Mixed	1	Uwe Ossenbrink / Andrea Findhammer (TG Ahlen 1897 / Bottroper BG)
1985/1986	West German individual championship U16	Men's singles	1	Ossenbrink Uwe (TG Ahlen 1897)
1985/1986	West German individual championship U16	Men's doubles	1	Atorf Lars / Ossenbrink Uwe (1st BC Leverkusen / TG ​​Ahlen 1897)
1985/1986	German individual championship U16	Mixed	1	Uwe Ossenbrink / Andrea Findhammer (TG Ahlen 1897 / 1st BV Mülheim )
1985/1986	German individual championship U16	Men's doubles	1	Uwe Ossenbrink / Lars Atorf (TG Ahlen 1897 / 1st BC Leverkusen)
1986/1987	West German individual championship U18	Mixed	1	Uwe Ossenbrink / Andrea Findhammer (TG Ahlen 1897 / Bottroper BG)
1986/1987	West German individual championship U18	Men's doubles	1	Kai Mitteldorf / Ossenbrink Uwe ( SC Union 08 Lüdinghausen / TG Ahlen 1897)
1986/1987	German individual championship U18	Mixed	1	Uwe Ossenbrink / Andrea Findhammer (TG Ahlen 1897 / Bottroper BG)
1986/1987	German individual championship U18	Men's doubles	2	Uwe Ossenbrink (TG Ahlen) / Kai Mitteldorf (SC Union 08 Lüdinghausen)
1987/1988	German individual championship U18	Men's doubles	2	Uwe Ossenbrink (BV Mülheim) / Fernando Poyatos (SV Unkel)
1987/1988	West German individual championship U18	Mixed	1	Ossenbrink Uwe / Findhammer Andrea (TG Ahlen 1897 / Bottroper BG)
1988/1989	German individual championship U22	Men's doubles	2	Kai Mitteldorf (FC Bayer 05 Uerdingen) / Uwe Ossenbrink (TuS Wiebelskirchen)
1989/1990	German individual championship U22	Men's doubles	2	Uwe Ossenbrink (TuS Wiebelskirchen) / Oliver Pongratz (TSV Mindelheim)
1990/1991	German team championship	team	1	TuS Wiebelskirchen
1990/1991	German individual championship U22	Men's doubles	1	Michael Helber / Uwe Ossenbrink (TuS Wiebelskirchen / TuS Wiebelskirchen)
1991/1992	German team championship	team	1	TuS Wiebelskirchen
1991/1992	German individual championship	Mixed	1	Uwe Ossenbrink / Katrin Schmidt (TuS Wiebelskirchen)
1991/1992	German individual championship U22	Mixed	1	Uwe Ossenbrink / Karen Stechmann (TuS Wiebelskirchen / VfL Stade)
1991/1992	German individual championship U22	Men's doubles	1	Uwe Ossenbrink / Thomas Berger (TuS Wiebelskirchen / SSV Heiligenwald)
1992/1993	German individual championship	Men's doubles	1	Michael Keck / Uwe Ossenbrink (SV Fortuna Regensburg / TuS Wiebelskirchen)
1992/1993	German individual championship	Mixed	3	Uwe Ossenbrink / Katrin Schmidt (TuS Wiebelskirchen)
1993	Hungarian International	Men's doubles	1	Kai Mitteldorf / Uwe Ossenbrink (GER)
1993/1994	German individual championship	Men's doubles	1	Uwe Ossenbrink / Kai Mitteldorf (TuS Wiebelskirchen / FC Bayer 05 Uerdingen)
1994/1995	German individual championship	Men's doubles	2	Kai Mitteldorf / Uwe Ossenbrink (FC Bayer 05 Uerdingen / TTC Brauweiler)
1994/1995	German individual championship	Mixed	3	Uwe Ossenbrink / Viola Rathgeber (TTC Brauweiler / BC Eintracht Südring Berlin)
1995/1996	German individual championship	Men's doubles	3	Kai Mitteldorf / Uwe Ossenbrink (Bayer Uerdingen / TuS Wiebelskirchen)
1996/1997	German individual championship	Men's doubles	2	Uwe Ossenbrink / Kai Mitteldorf (TuS Wiebelskirchen / BC Eintracht Südring Berlin)
1998/1999	German individual championship	Men's doubles	3	Uwe Ossenbrink / Kai Mitteldorf (TuS Wiebelskirchen / BC Eintracht Südring Berlin)
2003/2004	German team championship	team	3	TuS Wiebelskirchen ( Benjamin Woll , Uwe Ossenbrink, Michaela Peiffer , Elena Nozdran , Roman Spitko , Ingo Kindervater , Marcel Reuter )
2006/2007	German individual championship O35	Men's doubles	1	Stephan Kuhl / Uwe Ossenbrink ( 1st BC Düren / TuS Wiebelskirchen)

credentials

• Martin Knupp: German Badminton Almanach , self-published / German Badminton Association (2003), 230 pages