Florian Fuchs (born 10 November 1991) is a German former

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player who played as a forward.

Career

At the

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, he competed for the

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in the men's tournament. After the 2016 Summer Olympic, where he won the bronze medal, he transferred from

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to Dutch club

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. In the 2018–19 season, he won his first national title by defeating

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in the Dutch championship final with Bloemendaal. On 28 May 2021, he was named in the squads for the 2021 EuroHockey Championship and the

2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...

. Fuchs was named the FIH Young Player of the Year in 2012. In September 2021, Fuchs announced that he was retiring from international hockey. After the following season he also retired from club hockey. In his last season with Bloemendaal he won the

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and the Dutch national title.

Honours

International

;Germany *

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gold medal:

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

* Summer Olympics bronze medal:

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

EuroHockey Championship The Men's EuroHockey Championship is an international men's field hockey competition organised by the European Hockey Federation (EHF) for the top eight European national teams. It is the top division of the EuroHockey Championships. The tourname ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

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2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

;Germany U21 * Junior World Cup:

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

Club

;UHC Hamburg *

: 2009–10, 2011–12 ;Bloemendaal *

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: 2018–19,

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, 2021–22 * Euro Hockey League: 2017–18,

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

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Individual

* FIH Rising Star of the Year: 2012

References

External links

* 1991 births Living people Field hockey players from Hamburg German male field hockey players Male field hockey forwards 2010 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players Olympic field hockey players for Germany Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic bronze medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics HC Bloemendaal players German expatriate field hockey players Uhlenhorster HC players Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey players Men's Feldhockey Bundesliga players 21st-century German sportsmen Men's Euro Hockey League–winning players {{Germany-fieldhockey-bio-stub