German field hockey player Irina Kuhnt competed in two 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.
Internationally, Kuhnt won another silver medal at the 1991 European Championships, and a bronze medal at the 1995 Europeans. She also won the European Indoors in 1987, 1990, and 1992. In total, she played 147 international matches (including 9 indoor) from 1987-96. Domestically, Kuhnt played with Eintracht Braunschweig and later Berliner HC, whom she helped to win the national title in 1994 and 1996, and also the indoor title in 1995 and 1996.
Germany