Christian Zeitz
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Christian Zeitz (born 18 November 1980 in Heidelberg)[1] is a former German handball player.
Zeitz received a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens with the German national team.[2] He is World Champion from 2007, and European champion from 2004.
He was known for an unconventional playing style, often called 'street handball'.[3]
Career
Zeitz began playing handball aged 6 with his two older brothers.[4] At 18 he became a part of the first team at TSV Östringen in the 2. Bundesliga. When the tem fused with TSG Kronau to SG Kronau-Östringen, he followed. With the club he was promoted to the 1st Bundesliga.
He then joined THW Kiel, where he won the German Championship 9 times, the DHB-Pokal 6 times and the EHF Champions League 3 times.[5]
He then joined Hungarian MKB-MVM Veszprém.[6] Here he won the Hungarian double two teams and the Hungarian Super Cup three times.
From the 2016-17 season he returned to THW Kiel,[7] where he once again won the DHB-Pokal. On 16 February 2018 he was suspended from the club due to disagreements on the exact lengths of his contract.[8] In court the parts agreed to terminate the contract at the end of the season.[9] The club also had to pay Zeitz 75.000 euroes. Afterwards the club faced criticism from its fans, when they removed his portrait from the club history gallery.[10][11]
At the end of the affair he joined SG Nußloch in the 3. Liga.[12] In February 2020 after the bankruptcy of SG Nußloch, he returned to the Bundesliga to join TVB 1898 Stuttgart for the rest of the season.[13] The following season he joined GWD Minden.[14] In November 2022 he announced his retirement.[15]
Titles
Club
With THW Kiel
- German Super Cup
- Winner: 2001
- German Championship
- Winner: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014
- German Cup
- Winner: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017
- EHF European League
- Winner: 2004
- EHF Champions League
- Winner: 2007, 2010, 2012
- Super Globe
- Winner: 2011
With KC Veszprém
- Hungarian Championship
- Winner: 2015, 2016
- Hungarian Cup
- Winner: 2015, 2016
- SEHA League
- Winner: 2015, 2016
National team
References
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External links
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- 1980 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Heidelberg
- German male handball players
- Olympic handball players for Germany
- Olympic silver medalists for Germany
- Olympic medalists in handball
- Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- German expatriate handball players in Hungary
- 21st-century German sportsmen