Volker Ziegler

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Volker Ziegler (born June 12, 1966 in Dagersheim ) is a German table tennis trainer and national trainer of the German Disabled Sports Association (DBS).

Career

From 1978 on, Volker Ziegler played with various clubs in all divisions, from the district class to the regional league. He played the top division from 1993-1995 with the Hamburg sports club HSV Regionalliga in 2nd position (and VDTT coaching letter No. 03/2000 p. 18). In 1982 he started to train at TSV Dagersheim. In 1993 he became German runner-up as a coach with the boys' team at VfL Herrenberg. Parallel to his studies at the University of Hamburg , which he graduated as a sports scientist in 1995, he worked from April 1993 to July 1995 as a regional trainer at the Hamburger Tischtennisverband eV (VDTT trainer letter No. 4/1997, p. 4). In 1995 he moved to the table tennis association Württemberg-Hohenzollern. After the merger of the three Baden-Wuerttemberg table tennis associations in competitive sports, he worked as the regional coach of Table Tennis Baden-Württemberg eV Among other things, he worked from 1995 to 2001 with Irene Ivancan , Vice-European Champion and Player of the Year 2011, whose modern defensive game he founded. Alexandra Urban (European youth champion for school girls in 1998 and national ranking winner for women in 2012) has also trained with him since 1995.

Since 2009, Volker Ziegler has been the head coach of the Bundesliga women of SV Böblingen , currently with the line-up Qianhong Gotsch (2000 European champion, Olympic quarter-finalist Sydney), Nicole Struse (multiple European champion, German record champion), Yanhua Xu (former Chinese national player) and Alexandra Urban (2012 winner of the women's national ranking list) occupy 6th place in the table.

At the beginning of 2008, Ziegler accepted the disabled athlete Jochen Wollmert into his training group at the federal base in Stuttgart / Wendlingen, who won Paralympic gold in Beijing in 2008 and in London in 2012 . On February 1, 2013, Volker Ziegler took over the position of national coach table tennis in the German Disabled Sports Association (DBS). He was given leave of absence from Tischtennis Baden-Württemberg eV until the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

As part of the general assembly of competitive sports of the DBS on 29./30. November 2014, the contract of 48-year-old Volker Ziegler was extended to the end of 2018 and, after the successful performance of his athletes with four medals in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, was prematurely transferred to an open-ended contractual relationship.

Awards

In 2001, Volker Ziegler took second place in the election of Trainer of the Year by the Association of German Table Tennis Trainers VDTT (VDTT Trainer Letter No. 3/2001, p. 33).

In 2012, Volker Ziegler received the special award from the Minister of Education, Andreas Storch, when he was honored as Trainer of the Year 2012 by the Baden-Württemberg State Sports Association.

In 2015, Volker Ziegler was nominated as Table Tennis Star Coach for the Star Awards of the International Table Tennis Association ITTF in Dubai.

In 2017, Volker Ziegler and his team of trainers took 2nd place in the election of the Association of German Table Tennis Trainers (VDTT) as Trainer of the Year, just one vote behind the winner, boys' national trainer Zhu Xiaoyong (VDTT trainer letter No. 3/2018, P. 33).

In 2018, Volker Ziegler and his team again took second place behind the men's national trainer Jörg Rosskopf and ahead of the triple winner with Borussia Düsseldorf, Danny Heister, in the election of Trainer of the Year by the Association of German Table Tennis Trainers (VDTT) .

Private

In 1994, Volker Ziegler married the table tennis player Dorothea Mundle. The couple has two daughters (* 1999 and * 2001) and lives with them in Aidlingen- Lehenweiler .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Player portrait of Volker Ziegler
  2. ^ Meeting of the former boys 1 with their coaches
  3. ↑ State trainer Volker Ziegler ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.butterfly-bawue.de
  4. ↑ Coaching staff women Bundesliga
  5. ↑ Brief bio Jochen Wollmert ( Memento from August 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed February 9, 2016)
  6. ↑ Volker Ziegler new national table tennis coach
  7. ↑ Contract extended (accessed December 28, 2014)
  8. ↑ Awarding of the "Trainer Prize Baden-Württemberg 2012" in the Porsche Museum (accessed on February 9, 2016)
  9. ↑ Star Awards (accessed December 28, 2014)
  10. ↑ Zhu Xiaoyong is Trainer of the Year (accessed November 30, 2018)
  11. ↑ "Trainer of the Year": Sensational second place for Volker Ziegler and his team (accessed November 30, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Ziegler, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis trainer
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Dagersheim