Klaus Mainzer

Klaus Mainzer
Birth name Klaus Mainzer
Date of birth (1979-02-02) 2 February 1979
Place of birth Heidelberg, Germany
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 112 kg (17 st 9 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Prop
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
? - 1998
1998 - 2011
2011 - present		 Germany HTV
Germany SCN
Germany TVP		 ?
?
16		 ?
?
0
Correct as of 30 April 2012
National team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
2000 - 2007 Germany Germany 15 (0)
Correct as of 20 March 2009

Klaus Mainzer (born 2 February 1979 in Heidelberg, Germany) is a German international rugby union player, playing for the TV Pforzheim in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team.

Biography

Klaus Mainzer, born in Heidelberg, started playing joining local club Heidelberger TV. In 1998 he signed with SC Neuenheim. Since then he played for the SC Neuenheim. He only played one game for the club in 2009-10 because of contract disputes.

He earned his first cap for Germany in 2000 and played 15 times for Germany since then. His greatest success as a national team player was the promotion to Division 1 of the European Nations Cup in 2008. His last game for Germany was in a friendly against Switzerland in 2007.

On domestic level, he won two German championships with his club team in 2003 and 2004 against DRC Hannover and made losing appearances in the 2001 finals against DRC Hannover and again in 2006 against RG Heidelberg.

Not having played in SC Neuenheim's first team in 2010-11 because of disagreements with the clubs leadership, he joined newly promoted Bundesliga side TV Pforzheim for the 2011-12 season.[1]

Honours

Club

National team

Stats

Klaus Mainzer's personal statistics in club and international rugby:[2]

Club

Year Club Division Games Tries Con Pen DG Place
2008-09 SC Neuenheim Rugby-Bundesliga 9 0 0 0 0 3rd — Semi-finals
2009-10 1 0 0 0 0 5th
2010-11 0 0 0 0 0 5th
2011-12 TV Pforzheim 16 0 0 0 0 3rd — Runners up
  • As of 25 August 2011

National team

European Nations Cup

Year Team Competition Games Points Place
2006-2008 Germany European Nations Cup Second Division 4 0 Champions

Friendlies & other competitions

Year Team Competition Games Points
2007 Germany Friendly 2 0
  • As of 20 December 2010

References

  1. ↑ TotalRugby Wechselbörse 2011/2012 (in German) totalrugby.de, accessed: 26 August 2011
  2. ↑ Klaus Mainzer profile at totalrugby.de (in German) accessed: 25 February 2010
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