Volker Fried (born 1 February 1961 in

Osnabrück Osnabrück (; wep, Ossenbrügge; archaic ''Osnaburg'') is a city in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is situated on the river Hase in a valley penned between the Wiehen Hills and the northern tip of the Teutoburg Forest. With a population ...

, Niedersachsen) is a former

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ...

player from

West Germany West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 O ...

, who competed at four consecutive Summer Olympics for West and the reunified Germany. He won the gold medal with his team at the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...

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, after capturing silver at the two previous Olympics in

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(1984) and

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(1988). Fried earned a total number of 290 international caps for his native country, in the years between 1980 and 1996. He retired from the international scene after the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

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. After his active career he became a hockey coach at Düsseldorfer HC.

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* 1961 births Living people German male field hockey players German field hockey coaches Olympic field hockey players of Germany Olympic field hockey players of West Germany Field hockey players at the 1984 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic silver medalists for West Germany Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics 1990 Men's Hockey World Cup players Sportspeople from Osnabrück {{Germany-fieldhockey-Olympic-medalist-stub