Werner Stoeckl

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Werner Stoeckl

Werner Stöckl (born June 28, 1952 in Reșița ) is a former Romanian handball player from the German-speaking minority of the Banat Swabians .

Life

Stöckl attended the sports high school and then moved to the Reschitza workers' sports club in the second division in early 1969 and to Steaua Bucharest in the same year . With Steaua Bucharest he became Romanian champion for the first time in 1970. Ten more championship titles followed. In 1971 he played his first international match and in 1972 won a bronze medal with the team at the Olympic Games in Munich . In 1974 he won the world championship title with the team at the handball world championship in East Berlin and a silver medal two years later at the Olympic Games in Montreal .

In the same year he also finished his sports studies in Bucharest . In 1977 he won the European Champion Clubs' Cup . Stöckl played a total of 177 times for Romania and left the national team in 1980. In 1981 Stöckl moved to Carpati Mirsa and rose to the top division with the team a year later. In 1984 he left the club. In 1987 he moved to West Germany with his wife . He has been working there as a sports therapist ever since. In the meantime, he played in the 1988/89 season for a year for TuS Hofweier in the Bundesliga and then for six months at TSV 1896 Rintheim . With the club he was relegated to the regional league. As a coach, he led the club back into the second division. He then trained with TuS Helmlingen and SG Pforzheim / Eutingen .

Honors

  • 1974: Maestru emerit al sportului (Outstanding Master of Sports)
  • 2008: Honorary Citizen of Reșița Municipality (Romania)
  • 2009: Meritul Sportiv Cl. A II-a (Sports Prize Second Class)

literature

  • Johann Steiner, handball history (s). Transylvanian Saxons and Banat Swabians pave Romania the way to seven world championship titles , ADZ-Verlag, Bucharest 2003, ISBN 973-8384-12-5

Individual evidence

  1. Sports-reference.com: Werner Stöckl accessed on March 19, 2017
  2. Cosr.ro: Werner Stöckl accessed on March 19, 2017
  3. Banaterra.eu, Johann Steiner: Werner Stöckl - Weltklasse am Kreis for ten years, 2014 ( memento from September 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 19, 2017
  4. Dfbb.ro accessed on March 19, 2017
  5. ziare.com accessed on March 19, 2017