Beatrice Witte

Beatrice Witte - married Beatrice Schempp - (born October 29, 1961 in Wetzikon ) is a Swiss table tennis player . She took part in four world championships in the 1980s.

Career

Witte always played for the TTC Uster club , whose women's team was coached by her father Reinhard Witte. At the beginning of the 1980s she was one of the leading young people in Switzerland. So she won the youth championship U18 1979 gold in singles and doubles with Carmen Witte . In the U21 age group, she won singles in 1980 and 1982, and from 1980 to 1982 three times in a row in doubles with her twin sister Carmen. Overall, she was in the categories of youth SM (singles, doubles, mixed) team for TTC Uster and Elite in (singles, doubles, mixed) 24 times first.

Among the adults she won a total of 10 titles: 1983, 1986 and 1987 in singles, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987 and 1988 with Carmen Witte and 1985 and 1989 in mixed games with Martin Singer. Together with her sister, Beatrice Witte contributed significantly to the seven-time win of the Swiss team championship at TTC Uster in the years 1980 to 1985 and 1988.

From 1981 to 1984 Witte was nominated for all four world championships . Since the Swiss table tennis athletes have not yet been among the best in the world, they did not come close to medal ranks either. She played in the Swiss national team for a total of 11 years.

After a break of several years for private reasons, Witte began playing table tennis again in 2005. With the women's team of the TTC Uster club, she rose as a player and coach from the lowest division to the women's national league A.

Private

Beatrice Schempp-Witte's twin sister Carmen Witte Ehrismann was also a national player. Schempp-Witte lives in Uster today. She is married and has a daughter named Liza Schempp , who also plays table tennis at the TTC Uster. First, she and her sister did a commercial apprenticeship at a bank. Then both completed a kindergarten teacher training course and later graduated as speech therapists. Today they work as speech therapists, albeit at different schools.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
SUI	World Championship	1987	New Delhi	IND	last 128	Agony	Agony	29
SUI	World Championship	1985	Gothenburg	SWE	last 64	no participants	last 64	29
SUI	World Championship	1983	Tokyo	JPN	last 128	last 64	Agony	33
SUI	World Championship	1981	Novi Sad	YUG	Agony	Agony	last 64	37

swell

• Hajo Waldbröl: Not more than a pleasant walk , report from the European Cup encounter between DSC Kaiserberg and TTC Uster in Duisburg, DTS magazine , 1981/19 issue south-west, page 12

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1981/19 page 12
2. ↑ Marcel Ruckstuhl: Steckborn relies on the new generation , Thurgauer Zeitung Online, September 4, 2009 ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 13, 2012) 
3. ↑ ^{a b} STT from October 2010 ( Memento from April 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 23, 2016)
4. ↑ Article from November 23, 2009 ( Memento from August 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 23, 2016)
5. ↑ Beatrice Witte Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 14, 2011)

Web links

• Yearbook 2015/2016 of the Swiss Table Tennis Association STT (accessed on January 23, 2016)