Julius Kühn (born 1 April 1993) is a German

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player for

AEK Athens A.E.K. (; Athlitikí Énosis Konstantinoupόleos, ''Athletic Union of Constantinople'') is a major Greek multi-sport club based in Nea Filadelfeia, Attica. The club is more commonly known in European competitions as A.E.K. Athens. Establishe ...

Career

Kühn started at TV Aldekerk in 1999, before joining HSG Düsseldorf in 2008. In 2010, he won the German youth championship. In the 2010-2011 season he became a part of the first team. In January 2012, he joined

TUSEM Essen TUSEM Essen is a handball club from Essen, Germany. Currently, they compete in the 2. Handball-Bundesliga. Accomplishments *Handball-Bundesliga: 3 **: 1986, 1987, 1989 *DHB-Pokal: 3 **: 1988, 1991, 1992 *EHF Champions League: 1 **: 1988 * EHF ...

In 2014 he joined

VfL Gummersbach VfL Gummersbach is a professional handball club from the German city of Gummersbach, North Rhine-Westphalia. Currently, VfL Gummersbach competes in the Handball-Bundesliga and the DHB-Pokal. The club has seen great success, especially from the ...

on a two-year deal. When that expired he signed a two-year extension. In 2017 he joined

MT Melsungen MT Melsungen is a German handball team from Melsungen, Germany, that plays in the Handball-Bundesliga. History From 1992 to 2005, the team played in the 2. Handball-Bundesliga and finished third twice (in 1997/98 and 2003/2004). In the 20 ...

. On March 4, 2021, he scored his Bundesliga goal no. 1000 in a match against HC Erlangen. He finished the season as the second best outfield goalscorer in the Bundesliga with 211 goals. In 2023 he joined

SG BBM Bietigheim HB Ludwigsburg is a German professional handball club from Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg. Its women's team is playing in the Handball-Bundesliga Frauen, and internationally in the Women's EHF Champions League, EHF Champions League. The men's te ...

Season statistics

Source: Player profile at Handball-Bundesliga

National team

Kühn was called up to the German national team for the first time on 9 September 2014 by

Dagur Sigurðsson Dagur Sigurðsson (born 3 April 1973) is an Icelandic handball coach and former player who is currently the head coach of the Croatia men's national handball team, Croatian men's national team. He spent his career playing for clubs in Iceland, ...

. He debuted on 20 September 2014 in a home match against Switzerland. At the 2016 European Championship, he was not initially part of the team but was included for the last match of the main round to replace Christian Dissinger. Germany won the tournament, beating Spain in the final 24–17. Later the same year he was part of the German team that won bronze medals at the

2016 Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

. For this he was awarded the

Silbernes Lorbeerblatt Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (, ), the highest sports award in Germany, was endowed on 23 June 1950 by the German President Theodor Heuss. It is awarded to athletes and teams of exemplary character that have won medals at Olympic and Paralympic Games ...

. He also represented Germany at the 2018 European Championship. At the 2020 European Championship, he had become a key part of the team. At the 2020 Olympics, he also represented Germany. He played a single game at the 2022 European Championship against Belarus, before he had to leave with a positive

Covid-19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In January 2020, the disease spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 can vary but often include fever ...

test.

Achievements

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, then part of the King ...

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

European Championship A European Championship is the top level international sports competition between European athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs. In the plural, the European Championships also refers t ...

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Private life

Kühn is related to the German handball player Dana Bleckmann.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kuhn, Julius 1993 births Living people German male handball players Sportspeople from Duisburg Handball players from Düsseldorf (region) Olympic handball players for Germany Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in handball Handball-Bundesliga players VfL Gummersbach players MT Melsungen players Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century German sportsmen