Christopher Weselek
Birth name | Christopher Weselek | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 27 July 1981 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Essen, Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 90 kg (14 st 2 lb; 198 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Police officer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Christopher Weselek (born 27 July 1981 in Essen)[1] is a rugby coach and retired German international rugby union player, having last played for the RG Heidelberg in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team. He is currently one of the successful rugby coaches in Germany.
He plays rugby since 1991,[2] when he joined the RG Heidelberg through the English Institute in Heidelberg. He played for the RG throughout his career, with the exception of spending a year in Ireland and playing for Old Wesley there.[3] With RGH Weselek won twice the German 15er side championship, 4 times the German 7er side Championship in one time the German Pokal.
Weselek originally retired from the German national team after the Netherlands game on 26 April 2008, his 25th international, but returned to the struggling German side for the game against Portugal on 27 February 2010.[4][5]
Weselek has also played for the Germany's 7's side in the past, like at the 2008 and 2009 Hannover Sevens and the 2009 London Sevens.[6][7] Weselek has 30 international 15er side caps and played over 20 international 7er side tournaments.[citation needed]
Since 2012 he is head coach of the Rudergesellschaft Heidelberg. Under his coaching the RGH won the German 7er side championship in 2015, 2016 and 2017. Weselek also coached the German unter 19 Team during the European championship in Portugal in 2015 where Germany ended up 5th place.[citation needed]
Honours
[edit]Club
[edit]- German rugby union championship
- Champions: 2006, 2007
- Runners up: 2008
- German rugby union cup
- Winners: 2004
National team
[edit]- European Nations Cup - Division 2
- Champions: 2008
Stats
[edit]Christopher Weselek's personal statistics in club and international rugby:[2]
Club
[edit]Year | Club | Division | Games | Tries | Con | Pen | DG | Place |
2007-08 | RG Heidelberg | Rugby-Bundesliga | 8 | 2nd — Runners-up | ||||
2008-09 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5th | ||
2009-10 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2nd — Semi-finals |
- As of 23 December 2010
National team
[edit]European Nations Cup
[edit]Year | Team | Competition | Games | Points | Place |
2006-2008 | Germany | European Nations Cup Second Division | 8 | 0 | Champions |
2008-2010 | Germany | European Nations Cup First Division | 3 | 0 | 6th — Relegated |
Friendlies & other competitions
[edit]Year | Team | Competition | Games | Points |
2007 | Germany | Friendly | 2 | 0 |
- As of 21 March 2010
References
[edit]- ^ Christopher Weselek profile at scrum.com accessed: 4 March 2010
- ^ a b Christopher Weselek profile at totalrugby.de (in German) accessed: 4 March 2010
- ^ Christopher Weselek (in German) at the Hannover Sevens website, accessed: 4 March 2010
- ^ Kader für EM-Spiel gegen Portugal nominiert[permanent dead link ] (in German) Rugby-Journal, published: 19 February 2010, accessed: 4 March 2010
- ^ 6NB: Last chance for Romania? Archived 2011-07-15 at the Wayback Machine rugbyrugby.com, accessed: 4 March 2010
- ^ Germany ready to take on world's best[permanent dead link ] IRB website, published: 20 May 2009, accessed: 2 March 2010
- ^ Germany roster 2008 Hannover Sevens[permanent dead link ] (in German) Hannover Sevens website, accessed: 2 March 2010
External links
[edit]- Christopher Weselek at scrum.com
- (in German) Christopher Weselek at totalrugby.de
- (in German) Christopher Weselek at the Hannover Sevens website
- 1981 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Essen
- German rugby union coaches
- German rugby union players
- Germany international rugby union players
- RG Heidelberg players
- Old Wesley players
- Rugby union wings
- German expatriate sportspeople in Ireland
- German police officers
- Expatriate rugby union players in Ireland
- German expatriate rugby union players