Susanne Lahme (born 10 September 1968 in

Luckenwalde Luckenwalde (; Upper and dsb, Łukowc) is the capital of the Teltow-Fläming district in the German state of Brandenburg. It is situated on the Nuthe river north of the Fläming Heath, at the eastern rim of the Nuthe-Nieplitz Nature Park, about ...

) is a former German indoor and beach volleyball player.

Indoor volleyball career

Lahme began her career in the indoor volleyball in 1980 playing at

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and was eight times East German and unified German champion and nine-time German Cup winner. With the East Germany national team she was the 1987 European champion and two-time European Championship runner-up (1985 and 1989). In 1991 she was third at the European Championships with the already unified German national team. In 1992 and 1993 she was chosen the

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. She took part in three editions of the Olympic Games in

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(with East Germany), 1996 and

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and reached the fifth (Seoul), eighth (Atlanta) and sixth places (Sydney). There is also a fifth-place finish at the 1994 World Championships in São Paulo, Brazil. Her successful indoor career was ended after the 2002–03 season in Italy. At club level she played in Italy and Brazil as well as Germany. In 1995 she won the European

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playing with the Italian team Ecoclear Sumirago Varese. In 1996 she won the Champions League in Wien against Uralochka Ekateninburg playing with the team PVF Latte Rugiada Parmalat Matera. With the team

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she won the Italian Supercup in 1997 and the Italian Cup in 1998. She also won the

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with the team Despar Perugia in 2000.

Beach volleyball career

In 2001, Lahme started a beach volleyball parallel career. As of 2002, she formed a duo with

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and started at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. In 2004, they played at the Athens Summer Olympics, which she finished in ninth place after losing in the Round of 16 to Daniela Gattelli and Lucilla Perrotta, from Italy. After a knee surgery in August 2007, she finished her career as an athlete and trained and supervised in 2008 their compatriots Geeske Banck (her 2006–07 partner) and Anja Günther.

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