Frank von Behren (born 28 September 1976 in
Hille) is a retired
German
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team handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...
player.
Club career
Von Behren played professionally for
GWD Minden
Grün-Weiß Dankersen-Minden, commonly known as GWD Minden, is a handball club from Minden, Germany, and is competing in the German Handball-Bundesliga.
Crest, colours, supporters Kits
Accomplishments
* National Championship of Germany: 2
...
(1996–2003),
VfL Gummersbach
VfL Gummersbach is a handball club from the Germany, German city of Gummersbach. Currently, VfL Gummersbach competes in the Handball-Bundesliga and the DHB-Pokal.
Gummersbach is one of the most successful team-handball clubs ever.
Crest, colo ...
(2003–2006),
SG Flensburg-Handewitt
SG Flensburg-Handewitt is a professional handball club from Flensburg and Handewitt in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Currently, they compete in the Handball-Bundesliga and EHF European League. They play home matches at Flens-Arena. Since formin ...
(2006–2008) and again Minden (2008). He reached the
EHF Champions League
The Men's EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition for men's teams in Europe and involves the leading teams from the top European nations. The competition is organised every year by EHF. The official name for the me ...
final in 2007 with Flensburg.
Sustaining a broken thumb on top of a severe shoulder injury, von Behren ended his playing career on 1 August 2008.
International career
On 10 March 1998 von Behren made his international debut for
Germany
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in a match against
Sweden
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in
Ellwangen
Ellwangen an der Jagst, officially Ellwangen (Jagst), in common use simply Ellwangen () is a town in the district of Ostalbkreis in the east of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is situated about north of Aalen.
Ellwangen has 25,000 inhabitants.
...
. Until 2008, he played 167 games for the national team, scoring 356 goals.
He received a silver medal at the
2004 Summer Olympics
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in
Athens
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.
["2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball"]
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on February 2, 2008) Prior to that, he had received a silver medal at the 2002 European championship.
Personal life
Von Behren is married and has three children. In 2008 he started studying
sport management
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in
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Places
*Mount Oldenburg, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica
*Oldenburg (city), an independent city in Lower Saxony, Germany
**Oldenburg (district), a district historically in Oldenburg Free State and now in Lower Saxony
*Olde ...
.
Von Behren worked as a
pundit
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Origins
The term originates from the Sanskrit term ('' '' ), meaning "knowledg ...
for
Eurosport
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's German language coverage of the
EHF Champions League
The Men's EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition for men's teams in Europe and involves the leading teams from the top European nations. The competition is organised every year by EHF. The official name for the me ...
. As of the
2014–15 season he does the same job for
Sky Deutschland
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.
References
1976 births
Living people
German male handball players
Olympic handball players for Germany
Handball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Germany
Olympic medalists in handball
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Detmold (region)
People from Minden-Lübbecke
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