Andrea Bölk ( Andrea Stein, 10 November 1968) is a German

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player. She participated at the

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, where the German national team placed fourth. She was also on the Germany team that won the 1993 World Championship.

Career

Bölk started playing handball at TSG Wismar before joining SC Empor Rostock at the age of 14. Here she won the 1989 DDR-Championship.Mit einer früheren Olympionikin im Gespräch
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he joined

Buxtehuder SV Buxtehuder SV is a German sports club based in Buxtehude, Lower Saxony. The club is best known for its women's handball team, currently competing in the Handball-Bundesliga Frauen and 2022-23 Women's EHF European League, but also has department ...

in the United German Bundesliga. Here she won the 1994 Euro-City-Cup. She played over 200 matches for the club, scoring 872 goals. In 2000 she took a break due to pregnancy and joined TV Oyten in the Regionalliga for the 2001-02 season as a

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National team

Bölk represented first the East Germany national team and later the United Germany national team. She played 201 games for the Germany national team, scoring 361 goals. In 1993 she won the 1993 World Championship, beating Denmark in the final. At the inaugural European Championship in 1994 she won silver medals.

Private

Andrea Bölk is the daughter of German

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player Klaus-Peter Stein and handball player Inge Stein. She is married to fellow handballer Matthias Bölk Together they have two children, one of them being

Emily Bölk Emily Charlot Vogel (née Bölk, born 26 April 1998) is a German handballer for Ferencvárosi TC and the Germany national team. Career Youth teams Emily Bölk started at the youth team of Buxtehuder SV in 2002. In 2012 she joined the Sports a ...

, who also is a handballer.

References

Profile
at sports-reference.com

External links

* 1968 births Living people Sportspeople from Rostock Handball players from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Sportspeople from Bezirk Rostock German female handball players Olympic handball players for Germany Handball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics 20th-century German sportswomen East German female handball players SC Empor Rostock sportspeople {{Germany-handball-bio-stub