Curt Gerstmann

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Curt Gerstmann (* around 1907; † unknown) was a German table tennis player . He took part in the 1926 World Cup.

Career

Gerstmann played tennis. He became acquainted with table tennis in the early 1920s when Roman Najuch - a well-known tennis player at the time - organized table tennis tournaments in Richard Rau's (100 m runner) sports house so that the tennis players could bridge the winter break.

Gerstmann was an attacking player. He was nominated for the first German international match, which was won 8: 4 against England in January 1926. At the 1926 World Cup , he was seventh with the German team. He came to a score of 4:14 in the team fights, but won against Dr. Hassan-Ali Fyzee , the President of the Indian Table Tennis Association . In the individual competition, Gerstmann lost in the first round to the Englishman AE Stillwell, the doubles with Fritz Zinn was eliminated after a bye in the second round against HA Benett / George J. Ross (England).

At the end of the 1920s, Gerstmann took part in several tournaments in New York.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
GER  World Championship  1926  London  CLOSELY   last 64  last 16  no participants  7th 

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerstmann was “less than 20 years old” at the 1926 World Cup, according to Table Tennis Collector 33 ( memento of the original from May 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 7.3 MB) page 13 (accessed October 17, 2010) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ittf.com
  2. ↑ Manfred Schäfer: A game for life. 75 years of DTTB. (1925-2000) . Published by the German Table Tennis Association DTTB , Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , page 36
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1957/18 West issue, page 4
  4. ↑ a b Article by Tim Boggan (accessed November 28, 2013)
  5. ↑ Curt Gerstmann Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 7, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Gerstmann, Curt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH around 1907
DATE OF DEATH after 1926