Susanne Schmid

Leonie Susanne Schmid ( born August 27, 1960 in Bergisch Gladbach ) is a German former hockey player and Olympian in 1984 and 1988.

Susanne Schmid Leonie began her career as a goalkeeper, but switched after 1984 as an all-rounder in the field. She played for the RTHC Bayer Leverkusen and won with this club 1981, 1982, 1984 and 1987, the German championship in indoor hockey, 1982, 1983 and 1985 she was champion in field hockey. In 1987 she moved to SC 1880 Frankfurt, and has been with this club in 1988 and 1989, German field hockey champion.

Schmid made ​​his debut in 1979 in the German national hockey team. Her first big success was the title at the European Indoor Championships in 1981. During the same year she was goalkeeper at the World Cup in Argentina, where the German team won the title. 1983 Schmid was in the World Cup Fourth, in 1984, she won bronze at the first European Championship. In the same year she went as a regular goalkeeper for the Olympic Games 1984., Where she was, however, displaced in the tournament by Ursula Thielemann Stammtorfrau. The German field hockey ladies won silver behind the team from the Netherlands. Two years later, the team's defeat at the World Cup in the Netherlands, the hosts and again won silver. After a fourth place finish at the European Championships 1987, the German team finished fifth at the 1988 Olympic Games.