Okka Rau

Okka Rau ( Okka Rau today - tasting cup, born January 5, 1977 in Leer, Germany ) is a former German beach volleyball player.

Career

Okka Rau - tasting cup began in 1996 with the volleyball in the hall and in the sand. Since 2001, she co-starred with Stephanie Pohl. In the first year the duo third in the German Championship in Timmendorfer beach and took 17th place at the World Championships in Klagenfurt. At the first World Tour event in Osaka, it was enough for seventh place. In 2002, Pohl / Rau German champion and managed several fifth places at the World Tour. The European Championship they finished seventh. The next continental tournament in Alanya they won the title after a final against German Andrea Ahmann and Jana Vollmer. The 2003 World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, they finished ninth. 2004 played the German vice- champions and the Fifth European Championships in Timmendorfer beach at the Olympic Games in Athens, where they were also fifth. The following year, coached by Bernd Schlesinger women's team came in addition to the second place in the German Cup and third place at the World Tour tournament in Milan bronze at the European Championships in Moscow, but ended up at the World Championships in Berlin back in ninth place content. In 2006, she reached the next ranks third in the German Championship and the World Tour tournament in Klagenfurt first place in the European rankings. At the 2007 World Championships in Gstaad, they were fifth. 2008, they were em - fourth and won in Marseille became the first German team ever tournament of the World Tour. Thus, they qualified for the Beijing Olympics, where she reached the second round.

Since 2003, Okka Rau - tasting cup committed as an active spokesperson for the interests of the athletes. With five awards as a beach volleyball player of the year she is the most successful woman in this classification. In 2007 she was elected to Hamburg's sportswoman of the year.

In November 2009, Okka Rau - tasting cup the end of her successful career beach volleyball announced together with her long -time partner Stephanie Pohl, in order to concentrate fully in Kiel on her budding teaching can.

Private

Okka Rau - tasting cup studied Magisterium. On 23 December 2010 she married the volleyball player Stefan tasting cup.