Bruno Stolorz

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Bruno Stolorz
Birth nameBruno Stolorz
Date of birth (1955-02-06) 6 February 1955 (age 69)
Rugby union career
Coaching career
YearsTeam
???? RC Orléans
2008 - 2010 Germany

Bruno Stolorz (born 6 February 1955) [1] is a former coach of the German national rugby union team. [2]

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Stolorz shared his duties as coach of Germany with Rudolf Finsterer until the later resignation on 20 March 2010. [3] Stolorz was seconded to the German team by the Fédération française de rugby to improve Germany's performance in the sport and is also a coach with French club team RC Orléans, where he fulfills the position of a Conseiller sportif auprès. [4] [5] He took up his position with the German team in early 2008. [6]

After the end of Germany's 2008-10 European Nation Cup campaign and Finsterers resignation the later stated that Stolorz would be the ideal candidate to coach Germany by himself. [3] However, Stolorz was replaced with Torsten Schippe in July 2010, [7] with South African Jakobus Potgieter as Schippes assistant. [8]

Coaching honours

National team

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References

  1. ↑ Bruno Stolorz profile at totalrugby.com (in German) accessed: 15 March 2010
  2. ↑ Spain set down marker Archived 2010-01-18 at the Wayback Machine rugbyworldcup.com, published: 16 November 2008, accessed: 15 March 2010
  3. 1 2 Deutschland steigt ab / Finsterer tritt zurück [ permanent dead link ] Rugby-Journal , published: 20 March 2010, accessed: 20 March 2010
  4. ↑ Mark Kuhlmann nicht mehr DRV-Nationaltrainer [ permanent dead link ](in German) Rugby-Journal , published: 9 March 2009, accessed: 25 February 2010
  5. ↑ Comité Directeur Archived March 16, 2010, at the Wayback Machine (in French) RC Orléans website, accessed: 15 March 2010
  6. ↑ Kader für Lehrgang in Heidelberg nominiert Archived July 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (in German) scrum.de, published: 16 February 2008, accessed: 15 March 2010
  7. ↑ Torsten Schippe wird Trainer des 15er-Nationalteams [ permanent dead link ](in German) Rugby-Journal , published: 11 July 2010, accessed: 26 July 2010
  8. ↑ Kobus Potgieter neuer Co-Trainer der Nationalmannschaft [ permanent dead link ](in German) Rugby-Journal , published: 16 July 2010, accessed: 26 July 2010
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