Carmen Witte

Carmen Witte - married Carmen Witte Ehrismann - (born October 29, 1961 ) is a Swiss table tennis player . She took part in the world championship in 1983.

Career

Witte is left-handed. She always played for the TTC Uster club , whose women's team was trained by her father Reinhard Witte. At the beginning of the 1980s she was one of the leading young people in Switzerland. She won the doubles with Beatrice Witte and the mixed with Kobi at the U18 youth championships in 1979 . In the U21 age group, she won three times in a row from 1980 to 1982 in doubles with her twin sister Beatrice and in 1980 (with R.Keller), 1981 (with R.Keller) and 1982 (with Kobi) in mixed. In total she won 22 titles in the youth SM (singles, doubles, mixed) team for TTC Uster and Elite in (singles, doubles, mixed) categories.

In the adult singles she reached the final once, but she did not win the title. In 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987 and 1988 she won doubles with Beatrice Witte, in mixed she won gold in 1979 with R.Keller and 1983 with Thierry Miller .

Nominated for the world championships from 1983 . 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 9 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 supervisor from the lowest division to the women's national league A.

Private

Carmen Witte Ehrismann's twin sister Beatrice Schempp-Witte was also a national player. She is married, lives in Winterthur and has a daughter named Nurit Ehrismann , 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. In the early 1980s she lived in Laughton (England) for a few months to improve her English language skills. Later she lived temporarily in Bangkok, Thailand.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
SUI	World Championship	1983	Tokyo	JPN	Agony	last 64	Agony	33

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. ↑ Nurit Ehrismann , TOPSPIN 2006/2007 issue 1 page 20
2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1981/19 page 12
3. ↑ Marcel Ruckstuhl: Steckborn relies on the new generation , Thurgauer Zeitung Online, September 4, 2009 ( Memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 13, 2012)
4. ↑ Promotion round 1.Liga / NL women - Mandement, Düdingen and Uster are promoted - message from April 28, 2009 ( Memento from January 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on March 31, 2019)
5. ↑ Susanne Gutknecht: The ladies of the TTC Uster in the NLA - report from October 10, 2010 ( Memento from April 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 23, 2016)
6. ↑ see STT yearbook 2008/2009
7. ↑ Article from November 23, 2009 ( Memento from August 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 23, 2016)
8. ↑ Carmen Witte Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 5, 2011)

Web links

• Yearbook 2015/2016 of the Swiss Table Tennis Association STT (accessed on January 23, 2016)
• STT from October 2010 ( Memento from April 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 23, 2016)