Dominik Klein | |||
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![]() Dominik Klein in 2018 | |||
Personal information | |||
Full name | Dominik Walter Roland Klein | ||
Born | Miltenberg, West Germany | 16 December 1983||
Nationality | German | ||
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
Playing position | Left wing | ||
Club information | |||
Current club | Retired | ||
Number | 9 | ||
Senior clubs | |||
Years | Team | ||
1998–2002 | TUSPO Obernburg | ||
2002–2003 | TV Großwallstadt | ||
2003–2005 | SG Wallau-Massenheim | ||
2005–2006 | TV Großwallstadt | ||
2006–2016 | THW Kiel | ||
2016–2018 | HBC Nantes | ||
National team | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2005–2018 | Germany | 187 | (370) |
Medal record |
Dominik Walter Roland Klein (born 16 December 1983) is a former German handball player who last played for HBC Nantes. [1] [2]
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. [3] [4]
Klein played for the German club THW Kiel which won both the EHF Champions League and the EHF Men's Champions Trophy in 2007, in addition to winning German championships.
On 22 March 2018, he announced his retirement for the end of the 2017–18 season. [5]
In 2009 he married his girlfriend Isabell, who is a handball player (Buxtehuder SV), too. They are the only family in Germany who has a handball player in both the men and the women national team.
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