Benedikt Fürk (born 20 October 1988) is a German

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 ...

player who plays as a defender or midfielder for Uhlenhorst Mülheim and the German national team.

International career

Fürk made his debut for the senior national team in May 2010 against

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. In November 2018, he was selected in the Germany squad for the

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. After the game against

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he got an injury and had to withdraw from the tournament. On 28 May 2021, he was named in the squads for the 2021 EuroHockey Championship and the

2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...

Honours

Club

Uhlenhorst Mülheim *

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: 2017–18, 2018–19 *Indoor Bundesliga: 2013–14, 2015–16 * EuroHockey Indoor Club Cup:

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

International

Germany * EuroHockey Championship:

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

Germany U21 * Junior World Cup:

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Furk, Benedikt 1988 births Living people German male field hockey players Male field hockey defenders Male field hockey midfielders 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup players 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players HTC Uhlenhorst Mülheim players Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for Germany Place of birth missing (living people) Men's Feldhockey Bundesliga players 21st-century German sportsmen