Christiane Pape

Christiane Pape

Christiane Pape (born December 12, 1960 in Nuremberg ) is a German table tennis player . She won gold several times at the Paralympics , and she is also a multiple world champion with disabled people.

Career

In her youth, Pape played handball and enjoyed working with horses. She had an accident at the age of 19 and suffered paraplegia . She has been in a wheelchair ever since.

After the accident, she started playing table tennis. This was initially intended as a rehabilitation measure, but it showed talent and enthusiasm. A few years later she joined the RSV Bayreuth club and played in the wheelchair Bundesliga.

Most important successes in disability competitions

In competitions, she entered competition class 4. Here she was ( as of 2006 ) German champion several times : 15 times singles, 7 times doubles and 7 times mixed. At European Championships between 1983 and 2001 she won 17 gold and 4 silver. The world championships for disabled people only take place at irregular intervals. Here she was world champion five times in 1990, 1998 and 2002. At the Paralympics , which take place every four years , she won a total of 7 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze medals in 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004.

In 1993 she was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by the then Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker for her success . In the same year she received the Hermann Haagen Memorial Prize for particularly fair and exemplary behavior from Peter Kuhn, President of the Bavarian Table Tennis Association .

pedestrian

Christiane Pape plays in the club "TSV Lauf" with (predominantly) non-disabled players in a so-called "pedestrian team", successfully in the district league. In 2006 she took part in the Senior World Championships for pedestrians in Bremen.

literature

• Paul Link: Christiane Pape , DTS magazine , 1996/10 pages 44–46

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2018/8 Region 1, page 73

Web links

• Brief portrait (accessed on August 4, 2018)