Dietmar Schmidt

Dietmar Schmidt (born 29 April 1952 in Zwickau) is a handball coach who is currently the assistant coach at the women's team BSV Sachsen Zwickau. He is also a former East German handball player who won gold medals in the 1980 Summer Olympics as the captain.

Playing career Schmidt started his sports career with swimming and fistball. In 1967 he won the DDR Youth championship in first ball. He started playing handball in school and then joined BSG Aktivist „Karl Marx“ Zwickau and BSG Wismut Aue. He retired in 1984.

From july 2006 he became the head coach at Frankfurter HC. He coached the team through the 2013 bankruptcy and exit from the Bundesliga and continued in the 3. Liga. He ceased in this position in 2017. He returned to the club in October 2019. From the 2020-21 season he became the assistant at the women's team at BSV Sachsen Zwickau, the club that his own former team BSG Aktivist „Karl Marx“ Zwickau had turned into after the German reunification. They played in the second Bundesliga at the time and was promoted to the Bundesliga the following season.