Anke Heinig

Anke Heinig (born August 19, 1968 in Altenburg ) is a German table tennis player . In the 1980s she was one of the best players in the GDR and in 1990 she won the last GDR championship in singles.

National successes

Left-handed Anke Heinig won a total of five titles at the national championships of the GDR. From 1989 and 1990 she was GDR single champion, in 1988, 1989 and 1990 she won the double competition (with Katrin Heinze ).

Heinig joined the club BSG Lokomotive Leipzig-Mitte, with which she was GDR team champion five times in a row from 1986 to 1990.

After the reunification, Heinig played in the clubs Reinickendorfer Füchse (1991-1997), SV Dresden-Mitte 1950 (from 1997), TSV Rostock Süd (from 2007) and TTC Colditz (mostly in the regional league). In 1993 and 1994 she won the North German Championships in singles, in 1994 also in doubles (with Gabriele Kalka ) and in 1994 she became Berlin Champion.

In 2010 Heinig won the doubles title with Katrin Franke at the German Senior Championships AK40 in Berlin, in 2011 and 2014 she won the individual competition.

International

Since the GDR isolated itself internationally in table tennis from 1972 as a result of the competitive sports decision, Anke Heinig did not have the opportunity to distinguish himself internationally. After the fall of the Wall , she took part in the European Championship for the GDR in Gothenburg in 1990 .

Private

Anke Heinig is a teacher.

literature

• Manfred Schäfer: A game for life. 75 years of DTTB. (1925-2000) . Published by the German Table Tennis Association. DTTB, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , pages 176-180.
• GC This is how the masters play , DTS magazine , 1990/4 page 39

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2010/7 regional south, page 16
2. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2011/7 regional south, page 19
3. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2014/5 page 4
4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1990/5, pp. 29-30