Daniel Stephan (born 3 August 1973) is a retired German handball player. He was named IHF World player of the year in 1998.[1]
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,[2] 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.
On April 5th 2005 in a match against HSG Wetzlar he scored 11 penalties out of 11 attempts, which is a Bundesliga record.[3]
He is considered part of the Lemgo 'golden generation' together with Volker Zerbe, Christian Schwarzer, Florian Kehrmann and Stefan Kretzschmar, who won the European Championship together.[4]
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References
- ^ "IHF World player of the year" (PDF). International Handball Federation. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
- ^ Karriere in Zahlen at daniel-stephan.de (Error: unknown archive URL) (archived (Date missing))
- ^ www.bundesligainfo.de retrieved 23. March 2021
- ^ "Die zehn besten deutschen Handballer der Geschichte" [The 10 best German handballers in history] (in German). TZ.de. 11 July 2012. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
- "Profile at the TBV Lemgo" (in German). Retrieved 11 March 2007.
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