Marion Rodewald

German field hockey defender Marion Rodewald competed at the 2000 Sydney Olympics when the team finished seventh. Four years later at Athens the team won the gold medal and was named Team of The Year in Germany. Also, all team members were awarded the Silver Bay Leaf, Germany’s highest sports award. At Beijing in 2008 the team finished an unfortunate fourth.

Internationally, Rodewald won a gold medal at the 2007 European Championship, silver medals in 1999, 2005, and 2009, and a bronze in 2003. In 2006 she added the Champions Trophy, and won the gold medal at the 2002 European Indoors, and also at the 2003 and 2011 World Indoors. Rodewald played 282 international matches (including 12 indoor), scoring 24 goals (seven indoor) from 1998-2010.

Domestically, Rodewald played with Kahlenberger HTC Mülheim, HTC Uhlenhorst Mülheim, Club Raffelberg Duisburg, and Rot-Weiß Köln. By profession, she studied architecture and sports science. She then became athletes’ representative on the Sports Foundation Northrhine-Westfalia Board and from 2006 she was spokeswoman for the athletes of the German Hockey Association and a member of the Advisory Board of Active Members of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), and served on the Supervisory Board of the Deutsche Sporthilfe.