Maike Balthazar ( Maike Becker 12 April 1962 in

Esens, Lower Saxony Esens is a municipality in the district of Wittmund, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated near the North Sea coast, approx. 14 km northwest of Wittmund, and 20 km northeast of Aurich. Rathaus_Esens.jpg, Esens townhall in wintertim ...

) is a German

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 and coach who played for the West German national team. She represented West Germany at the

1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and commonly known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the ...

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, where the West German team placed fourth. She played for TuS Esens, MTV Aurich,

VfL Oldenburg VfL Oldenburg is a German sports club from the town of Oldenburg, Lower Saxony which is best known for its football team, which plays in the Niedersachsenliga, the fifth level of the German football league system. The club has over 2,000 memb ...

, TuS Walle Bremen and Harpstedter TB. In 1981 she won the DHB-pokal with VfL Oldenburg.

Coaching career

From 2002 to 2011 she was a part of the coaching staff at

, where she had also played. From 2002 to 2006 as assistant and from 2006 to 2011 as Youth Coordinator. In this period she was also coaching the German youth national team. In 2011 she became the became the youth coach at

Bayer 04 Leverkusen Bayer 04 Leverkusen, officially known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH () and commonly known as Bayer Leverkusen or simply Leverkusen, is a German professional association football, football club based in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia. ...

, where she was until 2013. In December 2017 she became the head coach of VfL Oldenburg.

Private life

She has a degree in pedagogy.

References

1962 births Living people Handball players from Lower Saxony German female handball players Olympic handball players for West Germany Handball players at the 1984 Summer Olympics West German female handball players People from Wittmund (district) German handball coaches {{Germany-handball-bio-stub