Oliver Roggisch (born 25 August 1978 in Villingen-Schwenningen) is a retired German

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 who played for

Rhein-Neckar Löwen Rhein-Neckar Löwen is a professional handball club founded in 2002, based in Mannheim, Germany. The club competes in the German Handball-Bundesliga and continentally in EHF European League. Rhein-Neckar Löwen play their home games in SAP Aren ...

. He is the

sporting director A sporting director, or director of sport, is an executive management position in a sports club. The role is well known as a manager role for European football clubs, which are sometime also "sports clubs", offering many types of sports. The sport ...

for the Löwen and the German national team. Roggisch is a World champion from 2007 with the German national team. He participated for the German team that finished fourth at the

2008 European Men's Handball Championship The 2008 EHF European Men's Handball Championship (8th tournament) was held in Norway from 17 to 27 January, in the cities of Bergen, Drammen, Lillehammer, Stavanger and Trondheim. Denmark men's national handball team, Denmark won the tournament ...

."Germany"
– ''European Handbal Federation (2008)'' (Retrieved on February 5, 2008)

Club player

Roggisch won the

EHF Cup The EHF European League is an annual men's handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF) since 1981. It is the second-tier competition of European club handball, ranking only below the EHF Champions League. Previ ...

in 2007 with the club

SC Magdeburg SC Magdeburg is a handball club from Magdeburg, Germany, and is competing in the Handball-Bundesliga. History During the time in the GDR, the club won 10 national championships (1970, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1991) and ...

References

1978 births Living people German male handball players Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Germany SC Magdeburg players Rhein-Neckar Löwen players Frisch Auf Göppingen players Sportspeople from Villingen-Schwenningen {{Germany-handball-bio-stub