Wieland Schmidt (handball player)
Player information | |
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birthday | December 23, 1953 |
place of birth | Magdeburg , GDR |
citizenship | German |
height | 1.85 m |
Playing position | goalkeeper |
Throwing hand | Left |
Clubs as active | |
from ... to | society |
1972-1989 | SC Magdeburg |
1989-1992 | SG Hameln |
1992-1993 | GWD Minden |
National team | |
Debut on | February 10, 1974 |
against | Norway in Magdeburg |
Games (goals) | |
GDR | 276 (2) |
Clubs as coaches | |
from ... to | society |
2010– | SC DHfK Leipzig (goalkeeping coach) |
2012–01 / 2014 | HC Leipzig (goalkeeping coach) |
01 / 2014-06 / 2014 | HC Leipzig (head coach) |
07 / 2014– | HC 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
- W. Weber: "It still itches" In: Handballwoche 33, 2009, p. 21.
- Klaus Gallinat, Olaf W. Reimann: Schmidt, Wieland . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Horst Mempel: Target - With Reflexes In: New Life (GDR magazine) No. 11/82, page 20
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
- Official website
- Wieland Schmidt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 3
- ^ New Germany, 1./2. September 1984, p. 4
- ↑ http://ddr-handball.de/, accessed on February 5, 2018
- ↑ Handball legend becomes goalkeeping coach of the DHfK handball team
- ↑ derwesten.de: HC Leipzig gets Wieland Schmidt as goalkeeper coach , accessed on January 14, 2014
- ↑ handball-world.com: HC Leipzig puts coach Ørneborg and his wife on leave , accessed on January 14, 2014
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schmidt, Wieland |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German handball goalkeeper and goalkeeping coach |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1953 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg - Ottersleben |