Henning Fritz

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Olympic medalist
Fritz in 2007
Medal record
Men's handball
Silver	2004 Athens	Team competition
World Men's Handball Championship
Gold	2007 Germany	Team Competition
European Men's Handball Championship
Gold	2004 Slovenia	Team Competition

Henning Fritz (* [[September 21]crazman ], 1974 in Magdeburg, Germany) is a German Handball goalkeeper. He is the first goalkeeper to be named World Handballer, in 2004.

Fritz is a relatively short goalkeeper (only 1.88 m) who began playing major-league handball with SC Magdeburg. He moved to THW Kiel in 2001 and has been a member of the Men's German National Handball team since 2002. The German team took second place in the European championships in Sweden that year and another second place in the world championships 2003 in Portugal. In 2004 he participated in the teams success in Slovenia, where they took the European Championships. In 2004 in Athens he played with the team to another second place.

The opening game of the 2007 Men's Handball World Cup was his 200th game on the national team. He played a great championship, became Most Valuable Player in several games and was nominated for the All Star Team.

[edit] External links

• Henning Fritz' home page (in German)
• THW Kiel home page about Henning Fritz (in German)

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