Heike Lätzsch

Heike Wedekind, née Lätzsch, was born on 19 December 1973 in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, and is a former field hockey striker from Germany. She won the gold medal with the women's national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She made her international debut in 1990 at the age of sixteen at the World Cup in Sydney, Australia, played in four consecutive Summer Olympics starting in 1992, and retired after the Athens Games in 2004, having represented Germany in 250 matches. Away from the pitch she is a fully qualified lawyer and a certified data protection officer who works as a data protection consultant.