Anke Olschewski

Anke Olschewski (born March 7, 1962 in Staffel ) is a German table tennis player . She achieved her greatest successes in the 1980s when she won the German doubles championship five times.

Youth area

Anke Olschewski began playing table tennis at the age of ten. In 1971 she joined the TTTC Grün Weiß Staffel - today a district of Limburg an der Lahn - and in 1978 she moved to the Bundesliga club FTG Frankfurt .

The first successes came in 1976: She won the German student championship in doubles (with C. Frieser) and in mixed (with Markus Fischer). In the same year she won the national ranking tournament TOP12 for students. In 1977 and 1979 she won the International German Championships in doubles (with Monika Sedlmair and Sabine Wenzel ). In 1979 she became the national German youth champion in singles and doubles (with Heike Hasslinger).

Adult area

Until 1989, Olschewski was one of the top performers in the women's Bundesliga team at FTG Frankfurt, with whom she became German champions in 1986 and 1987. After her marriage in 1985 she performed under the name Anke Schreiber. She won the German doubles championship five times - with Susanne Wenzel each time : 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987 and 1988, she won the runner-up with the same partner in 1981, 1982, 1986 and 1989, and again in 1990 with Andrea Lieder . In 1989 she won the mixed competition with Jörg Roßkopf .

In 1983 and 1984 she was second in the TOP 12 national ranking tournament , behind Susanne Wenzel .

In 1981 she represented Germany at the World Cup . At the European Championships in 1982 she won silver with the German women's team. She was not nominated for the 1983 World Cup due to "lack of international perspective", Andrea Ullmann was preferred. For the World Cup in 1985 , she was invited back.

Between 1980 and 1986, Olschewski played 26 international matches. After the European Championship in 1986, she announced her resignation from the national team.

In 1989 she moved to TuS Jahn Soest , and in 1992 to TuS Glane . In 1994 she returned to her home club TTTC Grün Weiß Staffel, where she played in the 2nd Bundesliga.

Anke Schreiber was honored with the Fair Play Cup of the Swaythling Club International in 1984 and 1986 .

Functional activities

From September 1987 Olschewski acted as a consultant for competitive sports at the DTTB. In September 1999 she became Vice President with a special assignment. She was the first woman on the DTTB Presidium.

From 1993 to 2003, Olschewski took on voluntary functions on the board of the Hessian table tennis association HTTV and in the DTTB . She was vice president of HTTV from 1994 to 1997, then president until 2003. On May 24, 2003, at the 34th HTTV Association Day, she lost a vote for the presidency against Norbert Englisch with 50:55 votes. From 1999 she was Vice President of the DTTB with special tasks.

Private

Olschewski studied sports science with the minor subjects sports medicine and educational psychology at the University of Frankfurt and graduated with a “Magister”. In 1985 she married Dieter Schreiber, the trainer at FTG Frankfurt. She is a partner in a real estate company in Limburg. Today she lives in Hadamar.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
FRG	European Championship	1982	Budapest	HUN				2
FRG	World Championship	1985	Gothenburg	SWE	last 64	Agony	last 64	14th
FRG	World Championship	1981	Novi Sad	YUG	last 32	Agony	last 64	5

literature

• Gerlinde Glatzer : Anke Olschewski - a model of reliability , DTS magazine , 1984/11, pages 34–36

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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 165-174
2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1983/3 page 49
3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1986/5 page 20
4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1986/3 page 26
5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1987/9 page 28
6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1999/10, pages 29 + 31
7. ↑ Anke Olschewski Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 13, 2011)