Wieland Schmidt (handball player)

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Wieland Schmidt
Player information
birthday December 23, 1953
place of birth Magdeburg , GDR
citizenship GermanGerman German
height 1.85 m
Playing position goalkeeper
Throwing hand Left
Clubs as active
from ... to society
1972-1989 Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR SC Magdeburg
1989-1992 GermanyGermany SG Hameln
1992-1993 GermanyGermany GWD Minden
National team
Debut on February 10, 1974
against NorwayNorway Norway in Magdeburg
  Games (goals)
Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR 276 (2)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to society
2010– GermanyGermany SC DHfK Leipzig (goalkeeping coach)
2012–01 / 2014 GermanyGermany HC Leipzig (goalkeeping coach)
01 / 2014-06 / 2014 GermanyGermanyHC Leipzig (head coach)
07 / 2014– GermanyGermanyHC Leipzig (goalkeeping coach)

Status: October 14, 2014

Wieland Schmidt (born December 23, 1953 in Magdeburg - Ottersleben ) is a German handball trainer and former handball player . In the 1970s and 1980s he was considered one of the best handball goalkeepers in the world.

Career

He played 276 international matches for the GDR. In the club he played for SC Magdeburg , with whom he did not lose a single home game in the Hermann-Gieseler-Halle from 1974 to 1989 . Both in the GDR national team and at SC Magdeburg he wore jersey number 12. In 1980 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and in 1984 in gold.

In 1980, 1981 and 1988 he was voted handball player of the year .

The trained communications specialist works in the regional marketing department at a bank in Magdeburg.

From the 2010/11 season Schmidt worked as an assistant trainer at SC DHfK Leipzig . In 2012 he switched to the women's handball Bundesliga club HC Leipzig as a goalkeeping coach . He later became an assistant coach and was, from Thomas Ørneborg's leave of absence in January 2014, together with Max Berthold, until the end of the 2013/14 season, as head coach of the HCL. Since July 2014 he has been working as a goalkeeping coach at HCL again.

Others

Schmidt is married and has two sons. In February 2005, together with Henning Fritz, he published a book entitled “Hold and Siegen”.

successes

  • 1980 Olympic champion in Moscow
  • 1974 2nd place at the World Cup in the GDR
  • 1978 3rd place at the World Championships in Denmark
  • 1986 3rd place at the World Cup in Switzerland
  • 1982 6th place at the World Cup in the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1984 1st place at the "Games of Friendship" - Magdeburg ("Replacement Olympiad")
  • 1988 7th place at the Olympic Games in Seoul
  • 1978 European Cup winner
  • 1981 European Cup winner
  • 1981 Supercup winner
  • 6 × GDR champions
  • 2 × GDR cup winners
  • 2 × team of the year in the GDR
  • 3 × GDR handball player of the year

literature

Documentary film

  • Participation in: Fallwurf Böhme - The miraculous ways of a left-hander by Heinz Brinkmann , narrator: Wolfgang Winkler , 90 minutes, DVD, Basis-Film Verleih GmbH, Berlin, distribution: KNM Home Entertainment GmbH 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 3
  2. ^ New Germany, 1./2. September 1984, p. 4
  3. ↑ http://ddr-handball.de/, accessed on February 5, 2018
  4. ↑ Handball legend becomes goalkeeping coach of the DHfK handball team
  5. ↑ derwesten.de: HC Leipzig gets Wieland Schmidt as goalkeeper coach , accessed on January 14, 2014
  6. ↑ handball-world.com: HC Leipzig puts coach Ørneborg and his wife on leave , accessed on January 14, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Wieland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German handball goalkeeper and goalkeeping coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg - Ottersleben