Martina Hallmen

Martina Hallmen ( born May 20, 1959 in Frankfurt am Main as Martina Koch) is a former German hockey player and Olympian.

Martina Hallmen played for the first Hanauer THC, with the 1981 and 1984 she won the German championship in field hockey under her birth name Martina Koch, 1983, she was German champion in indoor hockey.

The attack player debuted in 1977 in the German national hockey team. Her first major tournament was the European Indoor Championships in 1977, when the German team won the title. The following year, the German team defeated the Netherlands in the 1978 World Cup final with 1-0. In 1981, Martina Koch with the German team two major titles. First, the team defended the European title in the hall, then won the team at the World Championship in Buenos Aires after penalty shoot-out against the Netherlands. Two years later she finished fourth at the World Championships in 1983. In May 1984, the first field hockey championship of the ladies was held in Lille, after a semi-final defeat against the Netherlands team won the German players in the match for bronze against the British women. Two months later, the Dutch women defeated the German team at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles 6-2, with Martina Koch scored both German hits. The German team won silver behind the Netherlands team and before the U.S. women.

In 1987 she returned after a long break as Martina Hallmen in the German national team back and won her third title at a European Indoor Championships. At the end of their international careers Martina Hallmen occupied with the German team to fifth place at the Olympic Games in 1988. Overall Martina Hallmen worked from 1977 to 1988 in 119 international matches with which 19 are in the hall.