2023-09-25 20:01:36
She was only 63 years old!
The handball world in shock! Former world champion Sabine Adamik is dead. She died unexpectedly on September 21st in Garsten in her adopted home of Austria. She leaves behind an adult son. In her career, the Havelberg native played for SC Magdeburg and, after the fall of the Wall, for TuS Walle Bremen.
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Source: BILD / Sportdigital / X September 25, 2023
Highlight: In 1993, the goalkeeper, whose birth name was Picken and after her divorce she was called Bothe since her second wedding, won the World Cup title with Germany under national coach Lothar Doering (72). In the final in Oslo against Denmark there was a sensational 22:21 after extra time.
In her birthplace of Havelberg, Sabine Picken started as a gymnast and then switched to athletics. In 1968 she started in the handball training center, but in the field. In 1974 he moved to the SCM, which at that time also had a strong women’s team. There she was quickly used in goal.
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“Because I was pretty brave and also scored in the goal when I played soccer, the coaches put me in the box during the second practice session, where I stayed,” she once said. She later studied sports and geography in the Elbe city.
With the GDR she came fourth in the 1982 World Cup. She missed the 1986 World Cup because of a car accident in which she suffered a broken femur and a hip injury. The great successes only came after the fall of communism. In addition to the World Cup title, there was also European Championship silver a year later. In 1992 in Barcelona she came fourth at the Olympics.
Sabine Adamik with the 1993 World Cup trophy
Foto: picture alliance/NTB
In 1986 she became “Handball Player of the Year” in the GDR and in 1981 she was GDR champion with the SCM. No wonder that the then “FC Bayern of women’s handball” became aware of her after the wall came down. TuS Walle Bremen, which has since gone bankrupt, brought them to the Weser.
In her first year she became German champion with Walle, which she repeated in 1992 and 1994 to 1996. There were also three cup victories from 1993 to 1995 as well as victory in the then European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1994. In Bremen she played with world stars such as Anja Andersen (54), Marina Basanowa († 57) and Dagmar Stelberg (65).
After retiring in 1997, she trained the goalkeepers at Walle for another season before the club stopped playing. In the years that followed, she occasionally helped out in the box at Bayer Leverkusen.
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