Michael Metz

Michael Metz ( born June 16, 1964 in Mannheim ) is a former German hockey player and Olympic champion.

Metz began his career with TSV Mannheim, with whom he three times German youth champion in Youth B and A- youth. He then moved to the Bundesliga for Dürkheimer HC, with whom he won the 1992 and 1993 German championship in field hockey. Metz belonged to the victorious German team at the European Junior Championships in 1984 and at the Junior World Championship in 1985. In November 1985, the defender made ​​his debut in the German national hockey team. After bronze in field hockey World Cup in 1986 and the field hockey championship 1987, he won his first international title at the 1988 European Championship in the indoor hockey. 1988 Seoul Metz won the Olympic silver medal when the German team in the finals defeated the British.

After a pause, Metz 1991 returned back to the national team and was at the European Indoor Championships for winning team. 1992 at the Olympic Games Metz part of the team that won the second gold medal for Germany after twenty years. Overall Metz played in 141 international matches with 10 of them in the hall.