Franziska Heinz
German handball player
Franziska Heinz (born 21 November 1972) is a former East German and German female handball player and coach. She was a member of the Germany women's national handball team that won the 1993 World Championship.
Playing career
On club level she played for Borussia Dortmund and SC Magdeburg. With Borussia Dortmund she won the 1997 DHB-Pokal and came second in the 1998 Bundesliga. In 1997 she was named the German Handballer of the year.
She retired in 2002 due to an achilles injury.
Later she became a beach handball player and won the 2010 German Beach Handball Championship.
National team
Heinz played 187 matches for the German national team, scoring 374 goals. In 1993 she won the 1993 World Championship. A year later she won silver medals at inaugural European Championship in 1994.
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