Carola Ciszewski
{{short description|German handball player (born 1968)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}
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| name = Carola Ciszewski
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|6|1}}
| birth_place = Merseburg, East Germany
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| height = 179 cm
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| nationality = German
| youthclubs1 = BSG Wismut Schneeberg
| youthyears1 = 1979-1981
| youthclubs2 = SC Leipzig
| years1 = 1981-1993
| clubs1 = SC Leipzig
| years2 = 1993-1999
| clubs2 = VfB Leipzig
| years3 = 1999-2008
| clubs3 = HC Leipzig
| nationalyears1 = ?-1990
| nationalteam1 = East Germany
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| nationalyears2 = 1990-?
| nationalteam2 = Germany
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{{MedalCompetition|World Championship}}
{{MedalBronze| 1990 South Korea |}}
{{Medal|Country|{{GER}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Championship}}
{{MedalGold| 1993 Norway |}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Championship}}
{{MedalSilver| 1994 Germany |}}
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Carola Ciszewski (born 1 June 1968 in Merseburg, DDR) is a German handball player, won the 1993 World Championship.{{cite news|url=https://www.handball-world.news/o.red.r/news-1-2-23-25421.html|publisher=Handball-World|title=Vor 22 Jahren: Deutschlands Frauen sind Weltmeister|date=5 December 2012|access-date=31 March 2025|language=de}} She also participated at the 1992 Summer Olympics, where the German national team placed fourth.
Career
Carola Ciszewski started playing handball at BSG Wismut Schneeberg, before joining SC Leipzig in 1981 at the age of 13.{{cite web|url=https://www.munzinger.de/search/go/document.jsp?id=01000004130|publisher=Munzinger Arkiv|date=2021-04-11|title=Carola Ciszewski|language=de}} Here she played in the top division in East Germany and later in the Handball-Bundesliga Frauen after the fall of the Berlin Wall.{{cite news|url=https://www.spiegel.de/sport/sonst/frauen-carola-ciszewski-verlaengert-in-leipzig-a-20843.html |publisher=Der Spiegel |title=Carola Ciszewski verlängert in Leipzig|date=4 May 1999|access-date=11 April 2021|language=de}} Here she won the EHF European League twice in 1985-86 and 1991-92. She also won the DDR Championship in 1987-88 and in 1990-91, the last edition of the tournament. She won the United Germany Championship twice in a row in 1997-98 and 1998-99.
=National team=
Ciszewski played for both the East Germany and the Unified Germany national teams. With East Germany she played at the 1990 World Championship in South Korea, where she won bronze medals.
With the Unified Germany national team, she won the 1993 World Championship.
References
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20200417223327/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ci/carola-ciszewski-1.html Profile] at sports-reference.com
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External links
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{{Germany Women Handball Squad 1992 Summer Olympics}}
{{Germany squad 1993 Women's World Handball Championship}}
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Category:Sportspeople from Merseburg
Category:Sportspeople from Bezirk Halle
Category:German female handball players
Category:Olympic handball players for Germany
Category:Handball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Category:20th-century German sportswomen
Category:East German female handball players
Category:SC Leipzig sportspeople
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