Tibor Weißenborn
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| Bronze | 2004 Athens | Team competition | |
Tibor Weißenborn (born March 20, 1981 in West Berlin) is a field hockey player from Germany, who was a member of the Men's National Team that won the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
The midfielder, who plays for Dutch club HC Bloemendaal since the summer of 2005, made his international senior debut for the national team on March 24, 1998 in a friendly against The Netherlands in Amstelveen. He was first selected in the national squad when he was only 18 years old, and he played in over hundred international matches in his first three years in the German team. As of December 18, 2005, Weißenborn earned 223 caps for his native country, in which he scored 24 goals. He is nicknamed Tibs. He was named Men's Young Player of the Year in 2001 by the International Hockey Federation.
[edit] International Senior Tournaments
- 1999 – European Nations Cup, Padua (1st place)
- 2000 – Champions Trophy, Amstelveen (2nd place)
- 2000 – Summer Olympics, Sydney (5th place)
- 2001 – European Indoor Nations Cup, Luzern (1st place)
- 2001 – Champions Trophy, Rotterdam (1st place)
- 2002 – 10th World Cup, Kuala Lumpur (1st place)
- 2002 – Champions Trophy, Cologne (2nd place)
- 2003 – European Indoor Nations Cup, Santander (1st place)
- 2003 – 1st World Indoor Cup, Leipzig (1st place)
- 2003 – European Nations Cup, Barcelona (1st place)
- 2004 – Summer Olympics, Athens (3th place)
- 2005 – European Nations Cup, Leipzig (3th place)
- 2005 – Champions Trophy, Chennai (4th place)
- 2006 – 11th World Cup, Mönchengladbach (1st place)
| Preceded by None |
WorldHockey Young Player of the Year 2001 |
Succeeded by Jamie Dwyer (AUS) |
