Sebastian Heymann (born 1 March 1998) 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 for

Rhein-Neckar Löwen Rhein-Neckar Löwen is a professional handball club founded in 2002, based in Mannheim, Germany. The club competes in the German Handball-Bundesliga and continentally in EHF European League. Rhein-Neckar Löwen play their home games in SAP A ...

and the German national team.

Career

Having starred for the youth teams at TSB Heilbronn-Horkheim, he was called up to play at the 2016 European Men's U-18 Handball Championship for Germany, where the team finished in third place and Heymann himself named in the tournament's all-star team. He later earned a professional contract with Bundesliga club

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 ...

, scoring six goals on his debut. That season, he was part of the Göppingen team that won the

2016–17 EHF Cup The 2016–17 EHF Cup is the 36th edition of the EHF Cup, the second most important European handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF), and the fifth edition since the merger with the EHF Cup Winners' Cup. Tea ...

, defeating Füchse Berlin 30–22 in the final. In 2023, it was announced he would join

for the 2024–25 season. Internationally, he has represented the senior national team of Germany at the

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 ...

and

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

European Men's Handball Championship The European Men's Handball Championship is the official competition for senior men's national handball teams of Europe and takes place every two years since 1994, in the even-numbered year between the World Championship. In addition to crowning ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Heymann, Sebastian 1998 births Living people German male handball players Sportspeople from Heilbronn Handball players from Stuttgart (region) Frisch Auf Göppingen players Handball-Bundesliga players Handball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Germany Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in handball Rhein-Neckar Löwen players 21st-century German sportsmen