Björn Andrae (born 14 May 1981) is a German

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

player, a member of

Germany men's national volleyball team The Germany men's national volleyball team represents Germany in international volleyball competitions. It is governed by the German Volleyball Association. Germany won the gold medal at the 1970 World Championship as East Germany and the bronze ...

and German club Netzhoppers KW, a participant of the

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(

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Career

Three times in a row he was chosen the

German Volleyball Player of the Year The German Volleyball Player of the Year has been chosen annually since 1979 by the readers of the German '' Volleyball Magazin''. German Volleyball Player of the Year Sources: Volleyball Magazin and German Volleyball Federation (DVV) See also * ...

(2004, 2005, 2006). With

VfB Friedrichshafen VfB Friedrichshafen Volleyball GmbH is a German professional men's volleyball club founded in 1969 and based in Friedrichshafen, southern Baden-Württemberg. Main stakeholder is VfB Friefdrichshafen e.V. The club plays in the German Bundesliga a ...

Andrae won two titles of German Champion (2001, 2002). After few years in German and Italian clubs he went to Polish team Mlekpol AZS Olsztyn. He achieved bronze medal of

2007–08 Polish Volleyball League The 2007–08 Polish Volleyball League was the 72nd season of the Polish Volleyball Championship, the 8th season as a professional league organized by the Professional Volleyball League SA ( pl, Profesjonalna Liga Piłki Siatkowej SA) under the ...

. Then he went to Greek Panathinaikos Athens and achieved with its silver medal in 2008–09 CEV Cup and also silver of Greek Championship. Then he came back to Italian league to represent Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia for one season. In 2010 he started to play in Russian Superleague, from 201 to 2013 Kuzbass Kemerovo, then a few months in

Ural Ufa Ural Ufa (russian: «Урал» Уфа, ba, «Урал» Өфө) – is a Russian professional men's volleyball club, based in Ufa, playing in Russian Volleyball Super League since 1996. Achievements * CEV Challenge Cup The CEV Challenge ...

and another season 2014/15 in the first one. In 2015 he came back to

and achieved silver medal of German Championship.''VfB Friedrichshafen: Björn Andrae kehrt zurück''
- suedkurier.de - 19-02-2017 Since 2016 he has been playing as Netzhoppers KW player.

Achievements

Clubs

CEV Cup The CEV Cup is the second tier official competition for men's Volleyball clubs of Europe. The competition takes place every year. Until 2000, it was the CEV Cup Winners' Cup. In 2000 it was renamed CEV Top Teams Cup and in 2007 it was renamed CE ...

2008/2009, with Panathinaikos Athens * Bronze medal with cup

1998/1999, with

SCC Berlin SCC Berlin is a German sports club based in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin and founded in 1902 as ''Charlottenburger Sport-Club 1902''. In 1911, they merged with ''Sport-Club Westen 05'' and changed their club colors from yellow and blue ...

National championships

* 1999/2000 Simple gold cup

German Cup, with

* 2000/2001 Simple gold cup

German Cup, with

* 2000/2001 Gold medal with cup

German Championship, with

* 2001/2002 Simple gold cup

German Cup, with

* 2001/2002 Gold medal with cup

German Championship, with

* 2002/2003 Simple gold cup

German Cup, with

* 2007/2008 Bronze medal with cup

Polish Championship, with Mlekpol AZS Olsztyn * 2008/2009 Silver medal with cup

Greek Championship, with Panathinaikos Athens * 2015/2016 Silver medal with cup

German Championship, with

Individual

* 2004

European League The WSE Champions League is an annual club roller hockey competition organised by World Skate Europe - Rink Hockey and contested by teams from the top-ranked European leagues. The current champions are Italian side Trissino, which secured thei ...

– Best Server * 2004

* 2005

* 2006

References

External links

* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Andrae, Bjoern 1981 births Living people German men's volleyball players AZS Olsztyn (volleyball) players Volleyball players from Berlin Volleyball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic volleyball players for Germany Expatriate volleyball players in Poland Panathinaikos V.C. players Ural Ufa volleyball players 21st-century German people