Given the question: Volker Fried - Volker Fried (born February 1 1961 in Osnabruck Niedersachsen) is a former field hockey player from West Germany who competed at four consecutive Summer Olympics for West and the reunified Germany. He won the gold medal with his team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona after capturing silver at the two previous Olympics in Los Angeles (1984) and Seoul (1988). Fried earned a total number of 290 international caps for his native country in the years between 1980 and 1996. Given a choice of categories company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, the text refers to which one?
The answer is:
Athlete