Birth Place: | Solingen, West Germany |
Height: | 1.99m (06.53feet) |
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Rüdiger Neitzel (born 16 March 1963) is a former West German handball player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics. Therefore he and all players of the team were awarded with the Silver Lorel Leaf, Germany's highest sport award.[1]
He was a member of the West German handball team which won the silver medal. Therefor he was awarded with the Sjlver Laurel Leaf, Germanny's highest He played all six matches and scored thirteen goals.[2]
Neitzel completed his abitur at Gymnasium Schwertstraße before studying medicine at the University of Cologne,[3] and specialises in orthopaedics, sport othopaedics.[4]