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- ↑ "Paris 2024". Olympics. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
- ↑ "Weise-Nachfolge: Altenburg wird jüngster Hockey-Bundestrainer". Der Spiegel (in German). spiegel.de. 17 November 2015. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
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