Badri Latif

Badri Latif ( born November 2, 1977 in Berlin ) is a German former hockey player, she won the 2004 Olympic gold medal.

Badri Latif grew up in Berlin as the daughter of a Persian father and a German. She was friends in kindergarten with Natascha Keller and found that the sport of hockey. At the Berlin HC the defender was 1996 champion team, 1999, 2000, 2005 and 2006, she won the title again.

1997 debuted Badri Latif in the German national hockey team, in the FIH Champions Trophy in her hometown of Berlin, she reached with the German team to second place. Two years later, the German women in Brisbane were third. 2002 won Badri Latif with the German team at the Indoor Hockey Championships. In the Field Hockey World Cup 2002 in Perth, the German team came in seventh place. 2003, the first world championship in indoor hockey was played in Leipzig, the German team won the title. Outdoors the German women won bronze at the 2003 European Championships in Barcelona. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens Badri Latif was there in all six games in the finals won the German women 2-1 on the selection of the Netherlands. A year later, the Dutch women gained revenge with a 2-1 victory in the final of the 2005 European Championships in Dublin. 2006 won Badri Latif with the German team, the Champions Trophy in Amstelveen, at the World Championships in Madrid, the German team reached, however, only the eighth. Overall, Badri Latif worked from 1997 to 2007 in 145 international matches with, including 12 in the hall.

Badri Latif completed her medical studies in 2006 successfully.