Claude Rougagnou

Claude Rougagnou (* unknown) is a former French table tennis player from the 1950s. She took part in five world championships.

Career

Claude Rougagnou, the daughter of a French city commander of Karlsruhe, became champion of Alsace in 1952. In the same year she became French youth champion.

She won eight titles at the French National Championships : singles in 1957 and 1959, doubles in 1955, 1956 and 1960 with Christiane Watel, and mixed in 1958, 1959 (with René Roothooft ) and 1961 (with Maurice Granier). From 1954 to 1961 she was nominated five times for world championships . She came in fourth in the team competition in 1954 and 1955 . In 1960 she became number one in France's rankings.

In March 1954 she took part in the first Franco-German international match after the Second World War in Koblenz .

In the mid-1950s she played for the German club ESV Karlsruhe, with whom she competed in the final round of the German team championship in 1957.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
FRA	World Championship	1961	Beijing	CHN	last 64	last 32	last 64	7th
FRA	World Championship	1959	Dortmund	FRG	last 64	last 16	last 64	7th
FRA	World Championship	1957	Stockholm	SWE	last 64	last 16	last 32	7th
FRA	World Championship	1955	Utrecht	NED	last 64	last 32	last 32	4th
FRA	World Championship	1954	Wembley	CLOSELY	last 16	last 32	last 64	4th

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1952/22 Page 1 + 1952/7
2. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1952/22 Page 2
3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1960/6 page 11
4. ↑ 40 years of the TTVR 1949-1989 - Chronicle of table tennis in the Rhineland, page 105 (accessed on November 1, 2014)
5. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1957/5 Page 3
6. ↑ Table tennis district of Lake Constance: May 11, 1957: Lake Constance / Hegau expects great table tennis - At the German team championships of the TT women in Radolfzell (accessed on November 1, 2014)
7. ^ Claude Rougagnou results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed November 1, 2014)