Conny Freundorfer

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Konrad "Conny" Freundorfer (born November 9, 1936 in Freising , † May 7, 1988 in Munich ) was a German table tennis player .

Greatest successes

Freundorfer was German champion nine times in a row from 1953 to 1961. He was 16 years old when he won his first title. This makes him the youngest DMs title holder to date (2010). He denied 102 internationals, participated in nine world championships and four European championships and won 3 times the 1956 hosted the national ranking tournaments . In 1959 he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf of the Federal Republic of Germany for outstanding sporting achievements.

He was German individual champion nine times. Together with Eberhard Schöler , he held the record until 2015, which Timo Boll then beat with his tenth title win.

Career

In 1948 Freundorfer joined TSV Jahn Freising. In 1951 he moved to MTV Munich in 1879 . As early as 1950 - just 13 years old - he won the German championship with the club. He played his first international game in 1952 in Wiesbaden against Austria. In 1954 he left the MTV Munich club due to discrepancies and switched to TSV Milbertshofen ; when the Milbertshofen team disbanded in 1967, he went to SV Weißblau-Allianz München . He later returned to TSV Milbertshofen, which he left in 1976 out of annoyance over a non-line-up. In 1977 he played for Hertha BSC (regional league), in 1980 he went to SV Weißblau-Allianz München (regional league), where he played in a team with his son.

By 1962 he won most of his titles. In 1962 there was a changing of the guard: Eberhard Schöler became the best player in Germany. When the DTTB Freundorfer did not nominate for the team that was to contest the European Championship in 1962, he also refrained from participating in the individual competitions. Freundorfer played in the top German and also in the Bundesliga for 10 years . After that he took care of his sporting goods store, which opened in Munich in 1960. In 1988 he died as a cyclist in a traffic accident in Munich.

Freundorfer had been married to his wife Hildegard Zeitler since May 1958 and had a son (* 1958) who was also called Konrad.

properties

Freundorfer was considered unconventional in many ways. As a left-hander, he was uncomfortable for any opponent. His discipline and unreliability was also frequently criticized. This also led to the separation from his first club MTV Munich in 1879 .

Voices about Conny Freundorfer

“His absolute pleasure in playing, his joy in movement, which often resulted in playfulness, played some tricks on him. In its heyday, however, Conny finally wrested the sport of table tennis from the café atmosphere and made it popular with the unbelievable ease and fullness of his imagination. His virtuosity inspired and fascinated people. Young and old, table tennis fans and casual watchers. This secures Freundorfer his box seat in table tennis history. "

- Friedrich-Karl Brauns (sports journalist) in his obituary

"Fast legs, an extraordinary feeling for the ball and the sure instinct to do the right thing at the right moment."

- Eberhard Schöler on Freundorfer

successes

  • National German youth championships
    • 1949 in Witzenhausen: double 2nd place (with Hans Rockmeier )
    • 1950 in Speyer: single 2nd place, double 1st place (with Hans Rockmeier )
    • 1951 in Remscheid: Individual 1st place
    • 1952 in Hanover: single 1st place, double 1st place (with J.Schnellbögl)
  • World championships
    • 1953 in Bucharest: 7th place with men's team
    • 1954 in London / Wembley: 10th place with men's team, round of 16 in men's doubles (with Hans Rockmeier )
    • 1955 in Utrecht: 9th place with men's team, round of 16 in men's doubles (with Hans Rockmeier )
    • 1956 in Tokyo: 5th place with men's team
    • 1957 in Stockholm: 5th place with men's team
    • 1959 in Dortmund: 9th place with men's team
    • 1961 in Beijing: 7th place with men's team, round of 16 in singles
    • 1965 in Ljubljana: 10th place with men's team
    • 1969 in Munich: only single
  • European championships
    • 1958 in Budapest: 5th place with men's team
    • 1960 in Zagreb: 7th place with men's team, individual 3rd place
    • 1962 in West Berlin: only single
    • 1968 in Lyon: 8th place with men's team
  • International championships
    • 1956 Basel (Switzerland): 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Josef Seiz )
    • 1958 Austria: 1st place singles, 2nd place mixed
    • 1959 Austria: 3rd place individual
    • 1959 Hungary: 3rd place individual
    • 1964 Belgium: 2nd place singles, 1st place doubles (with Eberhard Schöler )
  • National ranking tournaments
    • 1956 in Würzburg: 1st place
    • 1957 in Bottrop: 1st place
    • 1958 in Wiesbaden: 3rd place
    • 1959 in Berlin: 2nd place
    • 1960 in Munich: 1st place
    • 1961 in Neumünster: 2nd place
    • 1963 in Mainz: 3rd place
  • Germany Cup
    • 1955 in Rheydt: 1st place in Bavaria
    • 1957 in Mörfelden: 1st place in Bavaria
  • Bavarian Championships
    • 1954 in Munich: 1st place individual
    • 1957 in Erlangen: 1st place individual, 1st place mixed (with Edith Kwiaton )
    • 1959 in Weiden: 1st place single, 1st place double (with Anton Breumair )
    • 1960 in Erlangen: 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Anton Breumair )
    • 1962 in Burgkunstadt: 1st place doubles (with Anton Breumair )
    • 1963 in Straubing: 1st place individual
    • 1966 in Erlangen: 1st place doubles (with Klaus Maier ), 1st place mixed (with cook)
    • 1967 in Augsburg: 1st place singles, 1st place mixed (with cook)
    • 1969 in Würzburg: 1st place doubles (with Werner Kümmerle )

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
FRG European Championship 1960 Zagreb YUG Semifinals
FRG World Championship 1969 Munich FRG last 128 last 16 Agony
FRG World Championship 1965 Ljubljana YUG Scratched Scratched Scratched 10
FRG World Championship 1961 Beijing CHN last 16 last 16 last 32 8th
FRG World Championship 1959 Dortmund FRG last 128 Scratched last 128 9
GER World Championship 1957 Stockholm SWE last 128 last 32 last 32 5
GER World Championship 1956 Tokyo JPN last 32 last 32 last 64 5
GER World Championship 1955 Utrecht NED last 64 Quarter finals last 128 9
GER World Championship 1954 Wembley CLOSELY last 128 last 16 no participants 11
GER World Championship 1953 Bucharest ROU last 32 last 64 no participants 7th

literature

  • Manfred Schäfer: In the Mao suit among the Chinese , DTS magazine , 1987/1 pages 20–21
  • Rudi Gruber : There's never one like that again , DTS magazine , 1988/6 pp. 11–13 + dts regional / south page 1–

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NDM in Chemnitz: Boll's tenth title a record for eternity / Solja overjoyed ( memento of the original from January 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. News from March 8, 2015 on tischtennis.de (accessed on March 10, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tischtennis.de
  2. ↑ KR: Konny Freundorfer blocked for two months , DTS magazine 1954/20 page 19
  3. ↑ DTS magazine 1967/18 page 20
  4. ↑ DTS magazine 1976/24 page 4
  5. ↑ Journal DTS 1977/17 page 13
  6. ↑ DTS magazine 1980/14 page 26
  7. ↑ Magazine DTS 1991/9 Page 36
  8. ↑ DTS magazine 1958/10 West issue, page 7
  9. ↑ DTS magazine , 1960/4 West issue, page 1
  10. ↑ DTS magazine , 1960/3 West issue, page 14
  11. ↑ Conny Freundorfer results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 6, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Freundorfer, Conny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freundorfer, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Freising
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1988
Place of death Munich