Heike Wedekind (née Lätzsch, born 19 December 1973 in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony) is a former field hockey striker from Germany, who won the gold medal with the Women's National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.[1]
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| Born |
19 December 1973 Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, West Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Striker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Braunschweiger THC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| –1993 | Eintracht Braunschweig | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1993–1998 | RTHC Bayer Leverkusen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1998– | Rot-Weiss Köln | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Caps | Goals | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1990–2004 | Germany | 250 | (41) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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She made her international debut in 1990 at the age of sixteen at the World Cup in Sydney, Australia. After having played in four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992, Lätzsch retired in 2004, after the Athens Games. In total, she represented Germany in 250 matches.[2]
She is a fully qualified lawyer and a certified data protection officer, and currently works as a data protection consultant and lead of the Cologne office of the company datenschutz süd GmbH.[3]
International senior tournaments
edit- 1990 – World Cup, Sydney (8th place)
- 1991 – European Nations Cup, Brussels (2nd place)
- 1992 – Summer Olympics, Barcelona (2nd place)
- 1994 – World Cup, Dublin (4th place)
- 1995 – European Nations Cup, Amstelveen (3rd place)
- 1995 – Champions Trophy, Mar del Plata (4th place)
- 1995 – Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Cape Town (3rd place)
- 1996 – Summer Olympics, Atlanta (6th place)
- 1997 – Champions Trophy, Berlin (2nd place)
- 1998 – World Cup, Utrecht (3rd place)
- 1999 – Champions Trophy, Brisbane (3rd place)
- 1999 – European Nations Cup, Cologne (2nd place)
- 2000 – Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Milton Keynes (3rd place)
- 2000 – Champions Trophy, Amstelveen (2nd place)
- 2000 – Summer Olympics, Sydney (7th place)
- 2002 – World Cup, Perth (7th place)
- 2004 – Olympic Qualifier, Auckland (4th place)
- 2004 – Summer Olympics, Athens (1st place)
References
edit- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Heike Lätzsch". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
- ^ "Nationalspieler: Damen" (in German). hockey.de. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
- ^ "Ansprechpartner DSN Group" (in German). dsn-group.de. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
External links
edit- Heike Latzsch at the International Hockey Federation
- Heike Wedekind at Deutscher Hockey-Bund (in German)
- Heike Laetzsch at Olympics.com
- Heike Lätzsch at Olympedia
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