Bianca Urbanke

Bianca Urbanke-Rösicke (born 17 September 1967) is a German handball player. She was a part of the German team that won the 1993 World Women's Handball Championship. She also participated at the 1992 Summer Olympics, where the German national team placed fourth.

Career Bianca Urbanke started playing handball aged 6 at BSG Lok Rangsdorf. In 1980 she joined the Kinder- und Jugendsportschule, which had a connection to ASK Vorwärts Frankfurt, one of the strongest teams in DDR in the 1980's. She joined ASK Vorwärts Frankfurt at the age of 15.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall she joined Bayer Leverkusen. Here she won the 1990-91 DHB-Pokal.

In 1993 she joined reigning champions TV Lützellinden for a single season, before rejoining Frankfurter HC. With Lützellinden she finished second in the Bundesliga.

In 1999 she joined Spanish team Ferrobus Mislata. Here she won the EHF Cup and the Spanish Cup.

In 2001 she returned to Germany and Frankfurter HC, which played in the 2nd Bundesliga at the time. In 2001-02 the club was promoted again to the Bundesliga with Urbanke as the key player. In the 2002-03 season they finished 4th in the Bundesliga and won the DHB-Pokal. Aged 35 Urbanke was the top scorer in the Bundesliga and won the player of the season award.

National team Bianca Urbanke played both for the East Germany and the unified Germany teams. In 1987 she made her debut for the East German team.

She missed the 1990 World Championship, as she had already moved to West Germany to join Bayer Leverkusen.

Her first major tournament was the 1992 Olympics, where Germany finished 4th. The following year she won the 1993 World Women's Handball Championship, beating Denmark in the final. They met when he coached ASK Vorwärts Frankfurt.