Dominik Walter Roland Klein (born 16 December 1983) is a former

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player who last played for

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. He is World champion from 2007 with the

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. He participated on the German team that finished 4th at the

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Club player

Klein played for the German club

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which won both the EHF Champions League and the

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in 2007, in addition to winning German championships. On 22 March 2018, he announced his retirement for the end of the 2017–18 season.

Personalities

In 2009 he married his girlfriend Isabell, who is a handball player (Buxtehuder SV), too. They are the only family in Germany who has a handball player in both the men and the women national team.

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* 1983 births Living people People from Miltenberg Sportspeople from Lower Franconia German male handball players Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Germany Handball-Bundesliga players THW Kiel players German expatriate handball players in France HBC Nantes players {{Germany-handball-bio-stub