Pascal Hens

Pascal "Pommes" Hens (born 26 March 1980) is a former German team handball player and former World Champion. He received a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens with the German national team. He is World Champion from 2007, and European champion from 2004. He also represented his native country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.

Career Hens started playing handball at the age of 6 at TG Kastel. In October 2015 he played his 500th game for Hamburg. He won the EHF Cup Winner's Cup in 2007 and the EHF Champions League in 2013 with HSV Hamburg.

When the club went bankrupt in February 2016 he joined Danish team HC Midtjylland for the rest of the season. The following summer he returned to Germany to join HBW Balingen-Weilstetten. After the 2016-17 he retired.

Career statistics Season(s) Team League Games Goals Penalty goals Outfield goals 2000–02 SG Wallau/Massenheim Bundesliga 68 245 12 233 2002/03 SG Wallau/Massenheim Bundesliga 25 113 - 113 2003/04 HSV Hamburg Bundesliga 26 106 - 106 2004/05 HSV Hamburg Bundesliga 14 54 - 54 2005/06 HSV Hamburg Bundesliga 34 159 1 158 2006/07 HSV Hamburg Bundesliga 31 142 - 142 2007/08 HSV Hamburg Bundesliga 33 158 - 158 2008/09 HSV Hamburg Bundesliga 21 81 - 81 2009/10 HSV Hamburg Bundesliga 30 93 - 93 2010/11 HSV Hamburg Bundesliga 31 84 - 84 2011/12 HSV Hamburg Bundesliga 33 103 - 103 2012/13 HSV Hamburg Bundesliga 28 88 - 88 2013/14 HSV Hamburg Bundesliga 28 69 - 69 2014/15 HSV Hamburg Bundesliga 35 86 - 86 2016/17 HBW Balingen-Weilstetten Bundesliga 16 19 - 19 2000–2017 Total Bundesliga 435 1600 13 1587

Post-playing career After his playinig career he has worked as a sports commentated at Eurosport and Dyn.

He has also been involved in the German anti-racism project Respekt! Kein Platz für Rassismus.