Hanka Durante

Hanka Pachale-Durante (born 12 September 1976 Schwerin, Germany), is a German volleyball player; she played for the German Women's National Team, representing them in consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. She represented her native country in at the 2004 Summer Olympics, finishing in ninth place, and at the 2003 Women's European Volleyball Championship, finishing third.[1] For the 2009–10 season, she played for Italian club Pavia.

Hanka Durante
Personal information
NationalityGerman
BornHanka Pachale
(1976-09-12) 12 September 1976
Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Career
Teams
Schweriner SC,
Schwerin (GER)
Volley Modena, Modena (ITA)

Her father Siegfried Pachale was a discus thrower, placing fifth in the world while representing East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her mother was also an internationally successful athlete, throwing the discus for the German national team.

Honours

References

  1. "Hanka Durante". CEV - Confédération Européenne de Volleyball. Retrieved 14 November 2017.

Bibliography

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