Christian Ramota

Christian Ramota is a former German team handball player. He received a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens with the German national team. He is also European champion from 2004, and received a silver medal at the 2003 World Championship.
In 2005 he was awarded the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt award.

Career

Ramota started playing handball at 15, and joined VfL Gummersbach three years later. In his second season he broke into the first team. In November 1993 he debuted for the German national team against Switzerland.
In 2003 he won the German Championship with Lemgo. In total he played 456 Bundesliga matches.
In september 2010 he made a comeback to handball for four months when Swiss club TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen had their starting goalkeeper injured.
After his playing career he has worked in the catering business.