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Simone Heike Thomaschinski (born 4 April 1970), married name Gräßer, later Zimmermann, is a former
field hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...
defender from
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. She was a member of the Women's National Team that won the silver medal at the
1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics (, ), officially the Games of the XXV Olympiad (, ) and officially branded as Barcelona '92, were an international multi-sport event held from 25 July to 9 August 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Beginning in 1994 ...
in
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. A player from hockey club RTHC Bayer Leverkusen, she competed in two consecutive
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, starting in
1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...
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* * * * 1970 births Living people German female field hockey players Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for Germany Olympic silver medalists for Germany Place of birth missing (living people) Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Frankfurt 20th-century German sportswomen West German female field hockey players {{Germany-fieldhockey-Olympic-medalist-stub