Heike Lätzsch
Heike Wedekind is a former field hockey striker from Germany, who won the gold medal with the Women's National Team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
She made her international debut in 1990 at the age of sixteen at the World Cup in Sydney, Australia. After having played in four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992, Lätzsch retired in 2004, after the Athens Games. In total, she represented Germany in 250 matches.
She is a fully qualified lawyer and a certified data protection officer, and currently works as a data protection consultant and lead of the Cologne office of the company datenschutz süd GmbH.
International senior tournaments
- 1990 - World Cup, Sydney
- 1991 - European Nations Cup, Brussels
- 1992 - Summer Olympics, Barcelona
- 1994 - World Cup, Dublin
- 1995 - European Nations Cup, Amstelveen
- 1995 - Champions Trophy, Mar del Plata
- 1995 - Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Cape Town
- 1996 - Summer Olympics, Atlanta
- 1997 - Champions Trophy, Berlin
- 1998 - World Cup, Utrecht
- 1999 - Champions Trophy, Brisbane
- 1999 - European Nations Cup, Cologne
- 2000 - Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Milton Keynes
- 2000 - Champions Trophy, Amstelveen
- 2000 - Summer Olympics, Sydney
- 2002 - World Cup, Perth
- 2004 - Olympic Qualifier, Auckland
- 2004 - Summer Olympics, Athens