Lars Kaufmann (born February 25, 1982) is a German former

team 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 Handball goalkeeper, goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands ...

player. 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 ...

."Germany"
– ''European Handball Federation (2008)'' (Retrieved on February 6, 2008)

Career

Kaufmann started playing handball at SV Koweg Görlitz, and joined 1. SV Concordia Delitzsch. Here he was the top scorer in the 2nd Bundesliga in the 2003-04 and 2004-05 seasons. In 2005 he joined

HSG Wetzlar HSG Wetzlar is a professional handball club from Wetzlar, Germany. It competes in the top-tier Handball-Bundesliga and in the DHB-Pokal, German Handball Cup. They have played in the Bundesliga since 1998 without relegation. History The modern ...

, where he played until 2007. He then joined

TBV Lemgo TBV Lemgo is a handball club from Lemgo, Germany, and is competing in the Handball-Bundesliga. History The ascent to one of the best German handball clubs was slow but steady. In the year the Bundesliga was founded, the club was still in the O ...

. In 2009 he joined

Frisch Auf Göppingen Turn- und Polizeisportgemeinschaft Frisch Auf Göppingen e.V. is a sports club from Germany, located in Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg. The club's men's handball team plays under the name FRISCH AUF! Göppingen in Handball-Bundesliga. Nine-time c ...

, where he won the

2010–11 EHF Cup The 2010–11 EHF Cup season was the 30th edition of the tournament. Frisch Auf Göppingen won the Europe's club handball tournament. TBV Lemgo were the reigning champions. Frisch Auf Göppingen won the tournament. Knockout stage Round 1 ...

. Afterwards he joined

SG Flensburg-Handewitt SG Flensburg-Handewitt is a professional handball club from Flensburg and Handewitt in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Currently, they compete in the Handball-Bundesliga and EHF European League. They play home matches at Flens-Arena. Since formin ...

, where he won the 2012

EHF Cup Winners' Cup The EHF Cup Winners' Cup was the official competition for men's and women's handball clubs of Europe Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocea ...

. Due to knee injuries he missed the entire 2013-14 season. In his absence Flensburg-Handewitt won 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 ...

. In 2015 he won the

DHB-Pokal The DHB-Pokal (English: German Handball Federation Cup) is an elimination handball tournament held annually in Germany. It is the second most important handball national title in the country after the Handball-Bundesliga championship. DHB-Pokal ...

. In 2015 he returned to

. Here he won the 2016 and 2017

EHF European League The EHF European League is an annual men's handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF) since 1981. It is the second-tier competition of European club handball, ranking only below the EHF Champions League. Previo ...

. After the 2016-17 season he retired.

National team

Kaufmann made his debut for the German national team in 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 ...

References

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* 1982 births Living people German male handball players Frisch Auf Göppingen players HSG Wetzlar players People from Görlitz Handball players from Saxony Sportspeople from Bezirk Dresden 21st-century German sportsmen {{Germany-handball-bio-stub