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German handball player (born 1973)

Daniel Stephan
Stephan in 2007
Personal information
Born3 August 1973 (1973-08-03) (age 51)
Rheinhausen, West Germany
Medal record
Men's handball
Representing  Germany
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens Team competition

Daniel Stephan (born 3 August 1973) is a retired German handball player.

Born in Rheinhausen, he was a member of the German national handball team from 1995, winning the 2004 European Men's Handball Championship. He retired in 2005, after an injury series not wanting to end, which had let him never take part at a World Men's Handball Championship. Stephan was the World Player of the Year 1998 and the German handball player of the years 1997 to 1999.

In the Bundesliga Stephan played for OSC Rheinhausen until 1994, when he changed to TBV Lemgo where he played until 2008. With Lemgo, he has won the National Cup of Germany in 1995, 1997 and 2002, the National Championship of Germany in 1997 and 2003, the EHF Cup in 2006 as well as the EHF Cup Winner's Cup in 1996.

References

IHF World Player of the Year – Men
Rankings before 1988: Ștefan Birtalan (1974, 1976, 1977)
Best Player of All Time: Gheorghe Gruia (1992)
Player of the 20th Century: Magnus Wislander (2000)
IHF Best Player in History: Ivano Balić (2010)


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