Stephanie Pohl
Stephanie Pohl ( born May 7, 1978 in Finsterwalde, Brandenburg) is a former German beach volleyball player.
Career
Stephanie Pohl began in 1985 with the Volleyball Hall. In 1997 she joined the beach volleyball. After two tournaments in 1998 with Martina Stoof 1999 and 2000 it formed a duo with Ines Pianka, the Mallorca finished in seventh place at the European Championships in 1999. In 2001, Pohl with her partner Okka Rau. 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.
After nine successful years, Stephanie Pohl was with her partner Okka Rau announced in November 2009 to end her volleyball career in order to concentrate on her law studies can.
Private
Stephanie Pohl lives in Kiel and studied law.