Pascal "Pommes" Hens (born 26 March 1980) is a former German team handball player and former World Champion. He received a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens with the German national team.[1] He is World Champion from 2007, and European champion from 2004. The last team he played for was HBW Balingen-Weilstetten. He won the EHF Cup Winner's Cup in 2007 and the EHF Champions League in 2013 with HSV Hamburg. He represented his native country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.[2]

Hens in 2022
Personal information
Born (1980-03-26) 26 March 1980 (age 44)
Daun, West Germany
Nationality German
Height 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)
Playing position Left back
Youth career
Years Team
1986–1996
TG Kastel
1996–1998
SV Kostheim 1912
Senior clubs
Years Team
1998–1999
TuS Eintracht Wiesbaden
1999–2003
SG Wallau-Massenheim
2003–2016
HSV Hamburg
2016
HC Midtjylland
2016–2017
HBW Balingen-Weilstetten
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2012
Germany 199 (565)
Medal record
Representing  Germany
Men's Handball
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens Team Competition
World Men's Handball Championship
Gold medal – first place 2007 Germany Team Competition
Silver medal – second place 2003 Portugal Team Competition
European Championship
Gold medal – first place 2004 Slovenia Team Competition
Silver medal – second place 2002 Sweden Team Competition

References

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  1. ^ "2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball" Archived 2008-04-07 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 2, 2008)
  2. ^ Staff (4 July 2008), Team Hamburg - Athleten (in German), Team Hamburg of the Hamburg Sport Federation and the Olympic point Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein, archived from the original on 16 August 2008, retrieved 17 August 2008
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