Benjamin Weß

Benjamin Wess

Birthday: July 28, 1985 Place of birth: Moers, Germany

Club Info

Team: Red- White Cologne

Youth career

Senior career

?? : Uhlenhorst Mülheim -2007: Crefelder HTC

Honours

2006: German Masters field 2007: German Champion Hall 2007: European Champion Clubs' Cup

National successes

2002: Silver 2nd Place U18 European championships in Rotterdam 2004: Silver 2nd Place U21 European Championship in Nivelles 2006: Silver 2nd Place U21 European Championship in Prague 2007: 4th place field hockey championship of the gentlemen in Manchester 2008: Gold at the Olympic Games in Beijing 2009: Silver at the Field Hockey Championship 2009 in Amstelveen 2010: Silver at the FIH Hockey World Cup 2010 in New Delhi 2011: Gold at the Indoor Hockey World Cup 2011 in Poznan 2011: Gold at the Field Hockey European Championships in Mönchengladbach 2012: Gold at the Indoor Hockey Championships in Leipzig 2012: Gold at the Olympic Games in London

Benjamin Wess (born 28 July 1985 in Moers ) is a German hockey player and member of the German national team. He is the younger brother of Timo Wess.

Wess played for the first time in the national team on 16 August 2005 in a match against India in the Amsterdam RaboTrophy, his debut in the U16 team he had on 13 April 2001 ( 3-2 against Spain in Barcelona). He was a player in the hockey league in the Crefelder HTC. With this he won the 2007 European Champion Clubs' Cup. Wess it scored the decisive goal in a 1-0 victory over Atlètic Terrassa.

Since the 2007/2008 season Wess plays along with his brother Timo for Rot-Weiss Cologne, with which they have risen from the second to the first Bundesliga. His first major tournament with the German national hockey team was the 2007 European Championship in Manchester, ranked in the Wess with the German team to fourth place. In the 2008 Olympics, he won the German team gold. He was 2009 European Cup runners-up England and 2010 in India World Cup runners-up behind Australia. In February 2011, he was part of the successful team at the Indoor Hockey World Cup 2011. In August 2011 the German team won at the Field Hockey Championship in Mönchengladbach in the final against the Netherlands. Wess 2012 with the German team European Indoor champion.

Benjamin Wess graduated 142 international matches, including 12 in the hall. (As of June 24, 2012 )

Benjamin Wess, who has made his Abitur in Moers, studied as well as his brother Timo in Cologne Business Administration.