Maike Becker

{{short description|German handball player (born 1962)}}

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| nationality = German

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age |1962|4|12|df=y}}

| birth_place = Esens, Lower Saxony, West Germany

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| height = 182 cm

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| nationalteam1 = West Germany

| nationalcaps1 = 39

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| managerclubs1 = VfL Oldenburg assistant

| manageryears1 = 2002-2006

| managerclubs2 = VfL Oldenburg youth

| manageryears2 = 2006-2011

| managerclubs3 = Germany assistant

| manageryears3 = 2002-2011

| managerclubs4 = Bayer 04 Leverkusen youth

| manageryears4 = 2011-13

| managerclubs5 = VfL Oldenburg

| manageryears5 = 2017-

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Maike Balthazar ({{nee}} Maike Becker 12 April 1962 in Esens, Lower Saxony) is a German handball player and coach who played for the West German national team. She represented West Germany at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where the West German team placed fourth.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/maike-becker-1.html |title=Maike Becker |accessdate=16 July 2019 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121214172103/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/maike-becker-1.html |archivedate=14 December 2012 |url-status=dead }} She played for TuS Esens, MTV Aurich, VfL Oldenburg, TuS Walle Bremen and Harpstedter TB. In 1981 she won the DHB-pokal with VfL Oldenburg.{{cite web|url=https://www.werder.de/de/handball/aktuell/news/migration/vorstellung-balthazar |title=Maike Balthazar wird Jugendkoordinatorin und -trainerin beim SV Werder.|publisher=Werder Bremen|website=www.werder.de|date=13 March 2014|accessdate=5 May 2021|language=de}}