Lenka Dürr – Wikipedia

Lenka Dürr
2015 Bei Impel Wrocław
portrait
birth date	December 10, 1990
Place of birth	Memmingen, Germany
Size	1,70 m
Position	Free
societies
until 2005 2005–2006 2006–2013 2013–2014 2014–2015 2015–2016 2016–2017 2017–2018 2018–2019 2019–2021	TV Kaufbeuren SV Mauerstetten FTSV Straubing Red Raben Vilsbiburg IGTISADCHI BAKU Azerrail baku Impel Wrocław Schweriner SC CSM Târgoviște Red Raben Vilsbiburg Dresdner SC
National team
221 times	Youth / juniors A national team
successes
2007 2008 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2010 2010 2011 2012 two thousand and thirteen two thousand and thirteen 2014 2014 2015 2015 2017 2017 2020 2021	European youth champion German champion Fourth CEV Cup DVV Cup winner German runner -up U20 world champion Made of EM German champion World Cup seventh Vice-European champion DVV Cup finalist Winry Euro League Vice-European champion Winner Montreux Masters World Cup ninth Fifth European games EM fifth DVV Cup finalist German champion DVV Cup winner German champion
As of: the end of the season 2020/21

Lenka Dürr (* December 10, 1990 in Memmingen; now Lenka Bitter ) is a former German volleyball player. The Libera became two Vice European champion with the German national team. At the club level she became a DVV Cup winner and four times German champion and played in various European Cup competitions. Outside of Germany, she was active at clubs in Azerbaijan and Poland. Most recently, between 2019 and 2021 she played for the Dresdner SC.

Dürr started her career together with her sister at TV Kaufbeuren. ^[first] She also played for SV Mauerstetten in youth. ^[2] In 2005 she switched to the then second division club FTSV Straubing. ^[first]

A year later, the Libera was hired by the first division club Rote Raben Vilsbiburg. ^[first] With the club she reached sixth place in the 2006/07 Bundesliga season. In 2007 she became European champion with the German youth team. ^[first] In the 2007/08 season she reached the semi-finals in the DVV Cup with the ravens and became German champion for the first time in the Bundesliga. The following season she won the 2008/09 DVV Cup in the final against Dresdner SC and became German runner-up. In addition, she reached third place in the CEV Cup with Vilsbiburg. With the German juniors, she won the U20 World Championship in Mexicali in 2009. ^[3] At the 2009 European Championship, she made her debut in the A national team and came fourth with the team. ^[4]

In the DVV Cup 2009/10, Vilsbiburg resigned as defending champion in the semi-finals. The team came to the round of 16 in the Challenge Cup. Then Dürr won her second German championship with the club. With the national team, she took part in the World Cup in Japan, which ended with the seventh place. ^[5] In the 2010/11 season she reached the Cup quarter-finals, the round of 16 in the CEV Cup and the playoff semi-final. Then she became Vice-European champion with Germany after a 2: 3 defeat against Serbia. ^[6]

In the 2011/12 season, Vilsbiburg with Dürr lost to the Schwerin SC in the DVV Cup final and in the playoff semi-final, while the team resigned in the round of 16 in the CEV Cup. The following season, both national competitions for the Red Raben ended in the semi-finals, again in the DVV Cup against Schwerin and in the Bundesliga against Dresden. In addition, the third round of 16 in a row in the CEV Cup Dürr won the national team in 2013 with the national team. ^[first] Then she became Vice-European champion again at the European Championship in Germany. ^[6]

Then the Libera moved to the Azerbaijani super league to Igtisadchi Baku. ^[7] In 2014 she won the tournament in Montreux with Germany and was recognized as the best defender. ^[8] Then she did not get ninth place with the DVV selection at the World Cup in Italy. ^[9] Then Dürr switched to Azerrail Baku within the Azerbaijani capital. In the 2014/15 season she came to the best twelve teams in the Champions League. At the 2015 European Games in Baku, she finished fifth with the DVV team. ^[ten] The same result was at the 2015 European Championship after the quarter-finals against Turkey. ^[11] The following season Dürr played in Poland at Impel Wrocław. ^[first] With the club she was also active in the Champions League, but was eliminated in the preliminary round.

In 2016 Dürr returned to the German Bundesliga and played for the Schwerin SC. ^[twelfth] With the association she reached the final in the 2016/17 DVV Cup, which was lost against Allianz MTV Stuttgart. Libera won its third German championship in the playoff final against the same opponent. In the 2017/18 season she was active in Romania at CSM Târgoviște. ^[13] With the club she came to the round of 16 of the Challenge Cup. In the 2018/19 season she temporarily played again with the Roten Raben Vilsbiburg in the Bundesliga. ^[14]

In summer 2019, Dürr declared her resignation from the national team. ^[6] For the 2019/20 season, she switched to Dresdner SC. ^[first] With the club, she won the 2019/20 DVV Cup in the final against Stuttgart. Dresden stood in the semifinals in the Challenge Cup when the season was canceled due to the Covid 19 pandemic, and in the Bundesliga season broken off shortly before the main round was fourth. In the 2020/21 season, she won the German Championship with the Dresden Association. After the end of the season, the club announced that Dürr was leaving the club. ^[15] On May 15, 2021, she announced her end of your career via social media. ^[16] In the 2021/22 season, she acted as an assistant coach with Bundesliga club Schwarz-Weiss Erfurt.

Dürr is married to the volleyball coach Konstantin Bitter. ^{[17] [18]}

Since 2015, Dürr has been an ambassador for the Volleyball Association without borders that support children and adolescents in economic weak regions. ^[19] She is also involved in a SOS Children’s Village in Augsburg. ^[19]

1. ↑ ^{a b c d It is f g} Lenka Dürr becomes a DSC volleyball player. Dresdner SC, April 15, 2019, accessed on October 4, 2020 .
2. ↑ Power tafes at home. (PDF) Allgäuer Zeitung, 2014, accessed on October 4, 2020 .
3. ↑ Lenka Dürr fetches World Cup title. Allgäuer Zeitung, July 28, 2009, accessed on October 4, 2020 .
4. ↑ National player Lenka Dürr from Kaufbeuren about her move to Poland and the German opportunities at the European Championship. Allgäuer Zeitung, August 26, 2015, accessed on October 4, 2020 .
5. ↑ World Cup 2010 (f): ‘Volleyball Team Germany’ before the World Cup start. DVV, October 28, 2010, accessed on October 4, 2020 .
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Lenka Dürr ends national team career. DVV, 23. July 2019, accessed on October 4, 2020 .
7. ↑ Second home Baku. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 23. Juni 2015, accessed on October 4, 2020 .
8. ↑ Off into the water, volleyball players clear in Montreux. Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 2, 2014, accessed on October 4, 2020 .
9. ↑ Lenka Dürr from Kaufbeuren adds disappointing World Cup cutout. Allgäuer Zeitung, October 10, 2014, accessed on October 4, 2020 .
10. ↑ “Microcosm”: volleyball player Dürr as a cultural mediator. Westfälische Nachrichten, June 12, 2015, accessed on October 4, 2020 .
11. ↑ Women’s European Championship: Bitter end in the quarter -finals – 2: 3 against Turkey. DVV, October 1, 2015, accessed on October 4, 2020 .
12. ↑ Lenka Dürr: The Schwerin SC convinced me the most. Ostlye-Zeitung, 27. Juli 2016, accessed on October 4, 2020 .
13. ↑ Lenka Dürr also goes to Romania. Schweriner SC, June 26, 2017, accessed on October 4, 2020 .
14. ↑ Lenka Dürr celebrates her comeback in the raven jersey against Straubing. Red Raben Vilsbiburg, 2018, accessed on October 4, 2020 .
15. ↑ Kadernews Kompakt. In: Dresdnersportclub.de. Dresdner SC, April 30, 2021, Retrieved on April 30, 2021 .
16. ↑ Announcement of career. Lenka Dürr, 15th today 2021, accessed on May 23, 2021 .
17. ↑ Lenka Bitter. Volleybox, 2022, accessed on October 18, 2022 .
18. ↑ #Missionmannheim: quarterfinals in the women’s DVV Cup. Volleyball Bundesliga, October 14, 2022, accessed on October 18, 2022 .
19. ↑ ^{a b} Overcome boundaries with volleyball. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 29, 2016, accessed on October 4, 2020 .