Thomas Huber (water polo)

Thomas Huber (* 4 November 1963 in Stuttgart ) is a former German water polo player, who won an Olympic bronze medal and 1989 European champion.

Huber began his career at SV Cannstatt. He moved in 1987 to the ASC Duisburg, with whom he won the 1989 German Cup.

Since early 1984, the striker was also part of the Germany squad. At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, the German team for the Olympic boycott of the USSR and Hungary was a co-favorite, winning the bronze medal behind the Yugoslavs and the American hosts managed the German players the only Olympic medal win after 1945. Was followed by bronze at the European Championship in 1985 and the sixth place at the World Championship in 1986. Both at the European Championships in 1987 and in the 1988 Olympics missed the German team with rank 4 only just a medal. In 1989 the German team won the European Championship, where Peter Röhle, Thomas Huber, Rainer Osselmann, Frank Otto, Hagen tribe and Dirk Theismann six players from the Olympic squad in 1984 there were.