Michael Peter

Michael Peter ( born May 7, 1949 in Heidelberg, † 23 October 1997) was a German hockey player and Olympic champion. He played a total of 262 times for the German national hockey team.

Career

Michael Peter played his entire career for the HC Heidelberg. In 1971, he was with his club German indoor champion in 1982, he won his only outdoor title.

In the national team he debuted 1969. 1971 he took part in the first World Cup in Barcelona and was with the German team fifth. A year later, the Germans were the world champions Pakistan in the final of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich against. The Germans won on home soil with a goal by Michael Krause 1-0. Michael Peter formed, along with team captain Carsten Keller 's central defense, and played a kind of Libero, earning him the nickname " Beckenbauer of the German Hockey" earned.

In the coming years, the German hockey team with Michael Peter was quite successful. The bronze medal at the World Championships in 1973 followed the European Indoor Championship title in 1974 and the Vice European Champion 1974 in field hockey. At the World Cup 1975, the German team again won bronze. In 1976, the team was again European Indoor champion. Rather disappointing ran the 1976 Olympics, the German team finished only fifth place. After a fourth place at the 1978 World Cup the team won in the same year at the European Championships in Hannover the title. After winning the third European Indoor Championship title 1980 Olympics boycott in 1980 was a major setback in the track record of the German Hockey Federation.

At the World Cup 1981/1982 in Bombay, the German team reached the finals and defeated the Pakistani selection with 1:3 there. After bronze at the European Championships in 1983 and the fourth European Indoor Championship title 1984 Michael Peter took in the summer of 1984 for the third time in the Olympic Games in part. In the finale of Los Angeles, the German team of the team of Pakistan faced again. After the regular season ended with 1:1, Pakistan succeeded in extra time 2-1. Michael Peter had won twelve years after his gold medal and an Olympic silver medal, he was the only one from the 1972 final, which was a finalist in 1984.

After the Games of Los Angeles Peter ended his international career as the reigning most-capped player. He was overtaken in the next few years by two teammates from 1984, first by Heiner Dopp, which was then surpassed by Volker Fried.