Dirk Theismann

Dirk Theismann ( born June 8, 1963 in Hamm ) is a retired German water polo player, who won an Olympic bronze medal and 1989 European champion.

Theismann went on until 1987 for the SC Red Earth Hamm and then moved to Berlin at the water Spandau friends with whom in 1987 he won his first German championship in 1988, he won the European Cup with the Spandauern. After his career Theismann returned to Hamm and was for a time chairman of the association of Red Earth. The left-hander was for years the German player with the hardest shot.

At the European Championships in 1983 Theismann was the first time for the German national team, finishing in fifth place. At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, the German team was because of the Olympic boycott of the USSR and Hungary a co-favorite, winning the bronze medal behind the Yugoslavs and the American hosts, they managed the only Olympic medal win after 1945. Was followed by bronze at the European Championships 1985 and the sixth place at the World Championship in 1986. Both at the European Championships in 1987 and in the 1988 Olympics missed the German team with rank 4 only just a medal. In 1989 the German team won the European Championship, where Peter Röhle, Thomas Huber, Rainer Osselmann, Frank Otto, Hagen tribe and Dirk Theismann six players from the Olympic squad in 1984 there were. In his third 1992 Olympics in Barcelona Theismann was only returned to the squad in the short term, the German team reached the seventh place.