Britta Becker

German field hockey player Britta Becker competed in three consecutive Olympic Games, winning the silver medal in 1992 after losing the final against Spain 2-1 after extra time. Therefore, the team and all players were awarded the Silver Bay Leaf, Germany’s highest sports award. Four years later at Atlanta, the team placed a disappointing sixth, and another four years later were only seventh at the Sydney Games.

Internationally, Becker won two more silver medals at the 1991 and the 1999 European Championships, and also two bronze medals at the 1995 Europeans and 1998 Worlds. In total, she played 231 international matches (including 22 indoor) from 1989-2003. Becker retired shortly before the 2004 Athens Olympics. Domestically, Becker played with Rüsselsheimer RK, winning five German national titles (1992-93, 1995, 1997, 2001), and six indoor titles between 1987-2004. She also won three European Cups and ten European Indoor Cups.

From 1996-2016 Becker was married to the well-known TV presenter Johannes B. Kerner and raised four children. Although she studied sports, she always had an interest in interior design and interior architecture. She later formed her own company that acquired old houses before converting them into “rooms for modern urban living”, and then selling them on.