Carla Stiebner

Carla Stiebner is a former German table tennis player . At the beginning of the 1960s she was one of the best players in the GDR and won the GDR championship once.

The first name is sometimes quoted with Karla .

Career

Stiebner played for the club SC Einheit Dresden , with whom she was GDR team champion three times in a row from 1961 to 1963. In 1963 she won the GDR championship in doubles with Ingrid Hollmann , and a year later she reached the final with Brigitte Lantzsch . In 1965 she took fifth place in the GDR rankings. In the same year she switched to SC Motor Jena .

In 1963 Stiebner was nominated for the world championship . Here she won the singles against Velta Adminis (Canada) and then lost to Laima Balaishite (URS). In doubles with Nakma Cruz D'Elia (Brazil) she finished in the last sixteen after several byes and a win over Baik Og Hi / Lim Re Sook (North Korea). Here was the end of the line against the Japanese Kazuko Ito / Noriko Yamanaka . In the mixed with Rudolf Lippert she was eliminated in the first round against Zhang Xielin / Cheng Min-chih (China). With the GDR women's team, she reached fifth place.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
GDR	World Championship	1963	Prague	TCH	last 64	last 16	last 128	5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Austrian Table Tennis Show 1965/2 page 26 (accessed on June 11, 2012) (PDF; 2.4 MB)
2. ↑ Austrian Table Tennis Show 1965/5 page 16 (accessed on June 11, 2012) (PDF; 2.7 MB)
3. ↑ Carla Stiebner Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 15, 2011)

Web links

• Table tennis archive from Hans-Albert Meyer