Dominik Walter Roland Klein (born 16 December 1983) is a former

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player who last played for

HBC Nantes Handball Club Nantes is a professional handball club team from Nantes, France, that plays in the LNH Division 1. Crest, colours, supporters Naming history Club crest File:Logo HBCNantes 2000.GIF, Logo in the 2000s(-2011) File:NantesLOGO.p ...

. He is World champion from 2007 with the German national team. He participated on the German team that finished 4th at the

2008 European Men's Handball Championship The 2008 EHF European Men's Handball Championship (8th tournament) was held in Norway from 17 to 27 January, in the cities of Bergen, Drammen, Lillehammer, Stavanger and Trondheim. Denmark men's national handball team, Denmark won the tournament ...

Club player

Klein began playing handball at TUSPO Obernburg, and joined

TV Großwallstadt TV Großwallstadt is a team handball club from Großwallstadt, Lower Franconia. Currently, TV Großwallstadt competes in the 2.Bundesliga and the DHB-Pokal. The club has seen great success, especially from the late 1970s until the early 1990s. ...

in 2002. A season later he joined

SG Wallau-Massenheim SG Wallau-Massenheim was a team handball club from Wallau (which belongs to Hofheim) east of Wiesbaden, Germany. It was a union of the two clubs ''TV Wallau'' and ''TuS Massenheim''. Today they play in German lower leagues. The club's biggest ...

. In 2005 returned to TV Großwallstadt. He then played for the German club

THW Kiel THW Kiel is a professional handball club from Kiel, Germany. Currently, they compete in the Handball-Bundesliga and are the record champion with 23 titles. 2007 and 2012 were the most successful years in the club's history, as THW completed t ...

which won both the

EHF Champions League The EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition for men's teams in Europe and involves the leading teams from the top European nations. The competition is organised every year by EHF. The official name for the men's com ...

and the

EHF Men's Champions Trophy The EHF Champions Trophy (named IHF Supercup between 1979 and 1983, named EHF Supercup between 1996 and 2007) was an official annual club competition of the European Handball Federation, that was contested until 2008. History Regarded as one of ...

in 2007, in addition to winning German championships. Lastly he played for

in France. On 22 March 2018, he announced his retirement for the end of the 2017–18 season.

National team

He debuted for the German national team on 4 January 2003 against Hungary. In 2007 he won the

World Championship A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ...

, for which he was awarded the

Silbernes Lorbeerblatt Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (, ), the highest sports award in Germany, was endowed on 23 June 1950 by the German President Theodor Heuss. It is awarded to athletes and teams of exemplary character that have won medals at Olympic and Paralympic Games ...

Personalities

In 2009 he married his girlfriend Isabell, who is a handball player (Buxtehuder SV), too. They are the only family in Germany who has a handball player in both the men and the women national team.

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* 1983 births Living people People from Miltenberg Sportspeople from Lower Franconia German male handball players Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Germany Handball-Bundesliga players THW Kiel players German expatriate handball players in France HBC Nantes players 21st-century German sportsmen {{Germany-handball-bio-stub