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Ulrike Mertesacker ( March 2008)

As of July 27, 2013

Ulrike Mertesacker, born Ulrike rod, ( born April 25, 1984 in Oschatz ) is a German handball player.

Career

The 1.69 m wide, playing on the position of Right Wing Mertesacker played from 1998 to 2003 and again from 2005 at the Bundesliga HC Leipzig. Between 2003 and 2005, she was loaned to the Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund. On 24 May 2009, she announced in an interview for broadcast sports in the East during the Middle German Radio that despite the existing contract leaves the HC Leipzig, and in summer the VfL ​​Oldenburg followed in order to be closer to her partner Per Mertesacker.

For the 2010/11 season Ulrike Mertesacker interrupted her handball career because of her pregnancy. After the birth of her child, she moved with her ​​partner Per Mertesacker to London. Since March 2012 she plays at the local Thames Handball Club.

International career

The student has played more 38 games ( 63 goals ) for the German women's national handball team, their international debut she had on March 4, 2005 in Riesa against Croatia. During the qualifying tournament for the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, she moved to a torn ACL in his right knee and so missed the Olympic participation. Also participating in the Men's Handball World Championship of Women in China in 2009, they called off for health reasons.

Achievements

  • German Champion 2006, 2009
  • DHB Cup winner in 2006, 2007, 2008
  • DHB Supercup Champion 2008, 2009
  • German Vice-Champion (A- Youth) 2001, 2003
  • 2nd place in the European Youth Championships 2001
  • 3rd place World Cup 2007
  • 2nd place EHA Cup England

Private

Since the summer of 2008, she is dating soccer international Per Mertesacker after they had met during their Rehas; Per Mertesacker cured a medial ligament tear from, bar a torn ACL. On 24 April 2011, their son was born. In June 2013 she married Per Mertesacker in the Marienburg Castle, near Per Mertesacker hometown Pattensen near Hanover.

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