Christian Pampel is a volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

 player from Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

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Career

Christian Pampel started his career in Hochstetten

Linkenheim-Hochstetten

Linkenheim-Hochstetten is a municipality in the district of Karlsruhe, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, 17 km north of Karlsruhe....

 in 1995. After three years in the Volleyball-boarding school Frankfurt he went to the first division club VfB Friedrichshafen

VfB Friedrichshafen

VfB Friedrichshafen is a German sports club founded in 1909 and based in Friedrichshafen. The VfB Friedrichshafen men's volleyball team plays in the 1. Bundesliga and the CEV Champions League. The team won the 2006-07 CEV Champions League title...

in 1999, won his first championship 2000 and made it to the final of the Champions League in 2000. In 2001 he won both the German championship and the German cup and took part at the European Volleyball Championship in the Czech Repubilk. 2002 he won the German championship and cup again. In the following European Volleyball Championship in Germany he was one of the best players, second in the Top-Scorer Ranking and got elected German Volleyball-player of the year 2003. Then he went to play in Italy. For the second division (A2) club Loreto first, then in the first division (A1) club Vibo Valentia where he made it to the final of the Italian cup and the Play-Offs. 2005 he went to the A1-club Semprevolley Padua and got elected A1-player of the month February 2006. For the play offs he was hired by the Greek club Olympiakos Piräus but followed his contract with Padova the next championship. He was part of the German National team taking part at the Volleyball World Championship in Japan 2009 (9th rank) and the European Championship in Russia 2007 (5th rank). In 2007 he went back to Friedrichshafen and again won the German Cup and Championship. With the national team he made it to the Olympic games in Beijin 2008 (9th rank). After the he played for Gazprom-Jugra Surgut till September and was then hired by the Italian A1-club Copra Volley Piacenza where he won the Italian Championship 2009.

External links

• Official Website
• Portrait
• Pictures
• Ranglisten 2000 - Männer (PDF-Datei; 287 kB)
• Ranglisten 2001 - Männer (PDF-Datei; 440 kB)
• Ranglisten 2002 - Männer (PDF-Datei; 103 kB)
• Ranglisten 2003 - Männer (PDF-Datei; 376 kB)