Frank von Behren (born 28 September 1976 in Hille) is a retired

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player.

Club career

Von Behren played professionally for

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(1996–2003),

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(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

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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

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in a match against

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. Until 2008, he played 167 games for the national team, scoring 356 goals. He received a silver medal at the

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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

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. Von Behren worked as a

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for

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's German language coverage of the

. As of the 2014–15 season he does the same job for

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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 {{Germany-handball-Olympic-medalist-stub