# Maike Becker

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**Maike Balthazar** ( **Maike Becker** 12 April 1962 in [Esens, Lower Saxony](/source/Esens,_Lower_Saxony)) is a German [handball](/source/Handball) player and coach who played for the [West German national team](/source/Germany_women's_national_handball_team). She represented West Germany at the [1984 Summer Olympics](/source/1984_Summer_Olympics) in [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles), where the West German team [placed fourth](/source/Handball_at_the_1984_Summer_Olympics).[1] She played for TuS Esens, MTV Aurich, [VfL Oldenburg](/source/VfL_Oldenburg), TuS Walle Bremen and Harpstedter TB. In 1981 she won the DHB-pokal with VfL Oldenburg.[1][2]

## Coaching career

From 2002 to 2011 she was a part of the coaching staff at [VfL Oldenburg](/source/VfL_Oldenburg), where she had also played. From 2002 to 2006 as assistant and from 2006 to 2011 as Youth Coordinator. In this period she was also coaching the German youth national team.[2]

In 2011 she became the became the youth coach at [Bayer 04 Leverkusen](/source/TSV_Bayer_04_Leverkusen_(handball)),[3] where she was until 2013.

In December 2017 she became the head coach of VfL Oldenburg.[4]

## Private life

She has a degree in pedagogy.[2]

## References

1. ["Maike Becker"](https://web.archive.org/web/20121214172103/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/maike-becker-1.html). Archived from [the original](https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/maike-becker-1.html) on 14 December 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2019.

1. ["Maike Balthazar wird Jugendkoordinatorin und -trainerin beim SV Werder."](https://www.werder.de/de/handball/aktuell/news/migration/vorstellung-balthazar) (in German). *www.werder.de*. [Werder Bremen](/source/Werder_Bremen). 13 March 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2021.

1. ["Maike Balthazar wird neue Nachwuchs-Cheftrainerin in Leverkusen"](https://www.handball-world.news/o.red.r/news-1-2-1-12227.html) (in German). handball-world.news. 28 July 2011. Retrieved 5 May 2021.

1. ["Oldenburg besetzt vakante A-Lizenz-Stelle"](https://www.handball-world.news/o.red.r/news-1-2-1-32780.html) (in German). handball-world.news. 22 December 2017. Retrieved 9 February 2025.

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