German field hockey player Susanne Müller competed at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, winning the silver medal 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. In total, she played 61 international matches (including 5 indoor) from 1991-97. In 1993, she was on the team that won the European Indoor Championships.
Domestically, Müller played with 1. Hanauer THC, RK Rüsselsheim, and Club Raffelberg Duisburg. She helped Rüsselsheim to win the German national title in 1992 and 1993, and the indoor title in 1993 and 1994. She married the 1996 hockey Olympian Patrick Bellenbaum and became a physiotherapist by profession. They raised two daughters.
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