Fanny Rinne

Fanny Rinne had a long field hockey career spanning four Olympic Games from Sydney 2000 to London 2012. She won the gold medal at Athens in 2004 and was fourth at Beijing in 2008. Germany placed a disappointing seventh in both 2000 and in 2012.

Rinne won further international medals with a gold at the 2007 European Championship, four silvers in 1999, 2005, 2009, and 2011 and a bronze in 2003. At European Indoors she won gold in 2002, and two more golds at the World Indoors in 2003 and 2011. In 2006, she won the Champions Trophy, and was runner-up in 2000, 2004, and 2008, and third in 2007. She played 341 international matches (including 19 indoor) from 1998-2010, scoring 131 goals (31 indoor).

At club level, Rinne played with TSV Mannheim (until 2006), Berliner HC (2006-07), Haagsche Delftsche Mixed in the Netherlands (2007-09), and again with Mannheim, helping them win the German title in 2010. She was awarded the Silver Bay Leaf, Germany’s highest sports award. In 1999 and 2003, she was named Field Hockey Player of the Year in Germany. By profession, she became career advisor at the Olympic base in the Rhein-Neckar metropolitan region.