Volker Fried
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Born | 1 February 1961 | (age 63)|||||||||||||||||||||||
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Volker Fried (born 1 February 1961 in Osnabrück, Niedersachsen) is a former field hockey player from West Germany, who competed at four consecutive Summer Olympics for West and the reunified Germany. He won the gold medal with his team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, after capturing silver at the two previous Olympics in Los Angeles (1984) and Seoul (1988).
Fried earned a total number of 290 international caps for his native country, in the years between 1980 and 1996. He retired from the international scene after the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. After his active career he became a hockey coach at Düsseldorfer HC.
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- 1961 births
- Living people
- German male field hockey players
- German field hockey coaches
- Olympic field hockey players for Germany
- Olympic field hockey players for West Germany
- West German male field hockey players
- Field hockey players at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Germany
- Olympic silver medalists for West Germany
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- 1990 Men's Hockey World Cup players
- Sportspeople from Osnabrück
- German field hockey Olympic medalist stubs