Volker Fried

Volker Fried (born 1 February 1961 in Osnabrück, Niedersachsen) is a former field hockey player from West Germany, who competed at four consecutive Summer Olympics for West and the reunified Germany. He won the gold medal with his team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, after capturing silver at the two previous Olympics in Los Angeles (1984) and Seoul (1988).^[1]

Volker Fried

Personal information
Born	1 February 1961 (1961-02) (age 64) Osnabrück, Niedersachsen
Height	184 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	78 kg (172 lb)
Medal record Men's Field Hockey Olympic Games Representing  West Germany 1984 Los Angeles Team Competition 1988 Seoul Team Competition Representing  Germany 1992 Barcelona Team Competition

Fried earned a total number of 290 international caps for his native country, in the years between 1980 and 1996. He retired from the international scene after the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. After his active career he became a hockey coach at Düsseldorfer HC.