PEKELER Hendrik

Date of Birth: 2 Jul 1991

Age: 30

Gender: Male

Height (m/ft): 2.03/6'7''

Place of birth: ITZEHOE

Birth Country:

Germany

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Handball	Men GER Germany	6

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Men's Preliminary Round Group A #04 GER Germany 27 ESP Spain 28	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Men's Preliminary Round Group A #08 ARG Argentina 25 GER Germany 33	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Men's Preliminary Round Group A #18 FRA France 30 GER Germany 29	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Men's Preliminary Round Group A #24 GER Germany 28 NOR Norway 23	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Men's Preliminary Round Group A #29 GER Germany 29 BRA Brazil 25	Finished
	Yoyogi National Stadium	Men's Quarterfinal #33 GER Germany 26 EGY Egypt 31	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Men	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA

World Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
4	Men	2019
7	Men	2015	Qatar
9	Men	2017	France

European Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
5	Men	2020
9	Men	2018	Croatia

Occupation:

Athlete, Bank Employee

Wife Johanna, three daughters

Languages spoken:

THW Kiel [Germany] since 2018/19

Filip Jicha [club], CZE; Alfred Gislason [national], ISL

Position style:

Pivot (thw-handball.de, 01 Jul 2020)

2012 for Germany Against Iceland, in Mannheim, Germany (dhb.de, 10 Feb 2016)

In November 2015 he sustained a spinous process fracture to a vertebra in his back. (morgenweb.de, 01 Feb 2016)

In June 2015 he damaged cartilage in his knee and was unable to play for several months. (morgenweb.de, 01 Feb 2016)

National league:

Handball-Bundesliga [GER] (thw-handball.de, 19 Dec 2020)

Philosophy:

Watching films, listening to music, surfing the internet. (thw-handball.de, 01 Jul 2020)

He was named Most Valuable Player [MVP] of the final four of the 2019/20 Champions League. (eurohandball.com, 30 Dec 2020)

He was named the Best Defender at the 2020 European Championship in Austria, Sweden and Norway. (eurohandball.com, 30 Dec 2020)

General Interest

General
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WITHDRAWAL
He withdrew from the 2021 World Championship in Egypt due to concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. "The general development of the Corona [COVID-19] pandemic with the renewed hard lockdown worries me as a family man, and I cannot leave my wife and daughters alone for more than four weeks during this time." He returned to the national team in March 2021 at the Olympic qualification tournament in Berlin, Germany. (ndr.de, 01 Mar 2021; lequipe.fr, 15 Dec 2020; spiegel.de, 15 Dec 2020)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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