Franziska Hentschel

Franziska Constanze Hentschel ( born June 29, 1970 in Stuttgart ) is a German former hockey player and Olympian in 1992 and 1996.

Hentschel began the HTC Stuttgarter Kickers, then later moved to RTHC Bayer Leverkusen and SC 1880 Frankfurt. In 1992 and 1993 she attended with Leverkusen to second place in the German Championship.

The center-forward was in the 1988 team that won at the European Junior Championships, 1989, she helped win the Junior World Championships. In 1989 she debuted in the German national hockey team. In the 1990 World Cup in Sydney she won with the German team to eighth place. 1991 in field hockey championship, the German team won the silver medal after a final defeat against England and also finished in the Champions Trophy ranked second. The following year, the Spanish hosts were the winners at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​Franziska Hentschel scored the only goal in the final of the German team. In the Champions Trophy in 1993 she finished with the German team to third place, a year later the German team missed the World Cup 1994 in Dublin in fourth just a medal. After a bronze medal at the Field Hockey Championship 1995, the German team at the Champions Trophy in 1995 experienced as at the World Championships last year in fourth place. After the sixth place at the Olympic Games in Atlanta Hentschel interrupted her international career and completed her medical studies. In the European Indoor Championship in 2002 after she won in 1990 and 1992 their third hall title, after her doctorate she was in 2002 when Dr. Hentschel in the squad.

Overall, Franziska Hentschel worked from 1989 to 2002 in 168 international matches with, including 15 in the hall.