Jerzy Christ
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Jerzy Christian ( born September 15, 1958 in Katowice ) is a retired Polish- German ice hockey player. He was a center forward.
Career
Trained as a miner began his career in 1976 at Baildon Katowice, where he was in the first year of Polish vice-champion. In 1983, he played a season for GKS Katowice, before moving in 1984 to Polonia Bytom, where he played until 1989. The time at Polonia Bytom was the most successful in his hockey career. He was considered one of the best players of the decade and led the club immediately, with his strike partner Jan Piecko, the first Polish Championship. In the same year he was honored by the Polish trade press as the best hockey player with the "Golden Bat ". This was followed by another successful year with two championships (1986, 1988), and again the " Golden Bat " award for the best hockey players of Poland ( 1986). In between were two vice- championships (1985, 1987). In the first Polish league he played a total of 423 games, scoring 204 goals.
His first contract abroad received Christ at the Zurich SC, where he managed as two time scorer promotion to the premier league of Switzerland. In December 1989, Jerzy Christ came as emigrants to Germany. The then chairman of the ECD Sauerland, Heinz Weifenbach had, brought him together with his countrymen Jedrzej Kasperczyk and Ireneusz Pacula, to Iserlohn. Here played Christian, with an intermediate station at ERC Westfalen Dortmund 90 in the 1994/95 season ( league champion ), and 1997 for the ECD Sauerland ( later the Iserlohn EC ) in the second Bundesliga. In his debut game in the jersey of ECD Sauerland against Duisburg he immediately scored three goals. Later he was promoted to captain. A strong embolism risk he had to take a long break in 1991. The pulmonary embolism and a muscle inflammation forced him the complete 1993/94 season to pause.
After the end of his career as a hockey player, he coached for a time regularly at the old boys of Westphalia, Dortmund and the ECD tradition team. With both teams, he participated in several tournaments and won once each Sauerland Cup of Hockey oldies. In addition, he also denied some games for inline skater hockey team Menden Mambas.
An avid fan of cycling lives in Iserlohn district Sümmern.
International career
During his international career between 1983 to 1989, it brought Jerzy Christ on 103 caps and 47 goals for the Polish national team. He took part in four World Cups and two Olympic Games.
World Championships
Olympic games
His best games on the international stage Jerzy denied Christ during the Olympic Winter Games in Calgary and the World Cup 1986 in Moscow, where he both goals for the Poles scored in the victory over the then reigning world champions Czechoslovakia (Poland won 2-1 ).
Statistics
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 ) 1 and Vorgänger-/Nachfolgeligen (Bundesliga 1st League )