Brigitte Scharmacher
Brigitte "Püppi" Scharmacher (married Tenfelde) (born November 20, 1951 in Osnabrück ) is a German table tennis player . She was German team champion five times and took part in two world championships.
Career
Brigitte Scharmacher achieved her first successes in the club VfL Osnabrück . Her mother Grete (in the 1970s federal maid servant) already played here with the women's team in the upper league , at that time the highest German class. In the youth field she won several titles at German championships. As a 14-year-old she won the Lower Saxony state championships for adults in 1965 in a mixed with Ernst Gomolla . Soon she was integrated into the women's team, with which she rose to the league in 1966. From 1972 the team played in the newly created two-track Bundesliga . At the end of the 1972/73 season, the team became German team champions.
She was nominated twice for world championships. In 1969 she took part in the individual competitions, in 1971 she was also used in the team. A total of four times she was represented at country fights from 1970 to 1971. She came second three times at German championships. In 1970 she was fourth in the German rankings.
When VfL Osnabrück missed qualification for the newly introduced single-track Bundesliga in 1975, Brigitte Scharmacher moved to DSC Kaiserberg . With this club she won the German championship four times in a row from 1975 to 1978. In 1980 she retired from competitive sports for private reasons. Later she played with the TTC Werden in the lower classes as a hobby.
Private
Brigitte Scharmacher was better known by her nickname "Püppi". From 1976 she studied medicine in Essen and obtained her doctorate. Here she met her future husband Volker Tenfelde, also a medical doctor as chief neurologist at St. Josef Hospital in Essen Kupferdreh, with whom she has a son (* 1988).
successes
- Title wins at German youth championships
- 1966: Doubles (with Almuth Stöhr )
- 1967: singles, mixed (with Bernt Jansen )
- 1968: doubles (with Wiebke Hendriksen ), mixed (with Klaus Schmittinger )
- 1969: singles, doubles (with Monika Kneip ), mixed (with Manfred Baum )
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German championships adults
- 1971: 2nd place in doubles (with Edit Wetzel ), 2nd place in mixed (with Jochen Leiß )
- 1972: 2nd place in mixed (with Jochen Leiß )
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National ranking tournaments
- 1971: 3rd place
- 1972: 3rd place
- German team championships
- 1973: VfL Osnabrück
- 1975–1978: DSC Kaiserberg
- German cup winner
- 1976: DSC Kaiserberg
Results from the ITTF database
| Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FRG | World Championship | 1971 | Nagoya | JPN | last 32 | last 32 | last 64 | 7th |
| FRG | World Championship | 1969 | Munich | FRG | last 64 | Agony | last 64 |
literature
- Winfried Beckmann: From Püppi to Frau Doktor , DTS magazine , 1998/9 page 37
- 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 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Magazine DTS , 1972/10 edition south-west side 10
- ↑ Magazine DTS , 1966/5 Page 6
- ↑ Brigitte Scharmacher Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 14, 2011)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scharmacher, Brigitte |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tenfelde, Brigitte; Scharmacher, Püppi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osnabrück |