Dagmar Mestchen

Dagmar Mestchen , married. Fischer , (born November 2, 1963 in Gommern ) is a German table tennis player who was GDR champion seven times in the 1980s .

Career

Mestchen began her career with the association BSG Aktivist Gommern . She won titles at the GDR Youth Championships several times. From 1979 to 1985 she was one of the national players of the GDR, but never took part in European or World Championships because the GDR limited itself to international matches with Eastern Bloc countries in table tennis. Around 1980 she moved to Chemie Schönebeck , with whose women's team she won the GDR Cup in 1980, 1981 and 1982. In the mid-1980s she joined BSG Lokomotive Leipzig-Mitte , where she was GDR team champion in 1986, 1987 and 1989.

At the GDR championships she won four titles, namely in 1982 and 1983 in both singles and doubles with Halka Lukaschek . In addition, she was in the final with Halka Lukaschek in 1981 and 1987, and in the individual in 1988. On her 17th birthday, she was the only participant of the former GDR to win bronze in singles at international championships, and she also took part in the final in doubles with Halka Lukaschek at international championships in Görlitz.

After the German reunification in 1990 , she became state champion of Saxony-Anhalt in 1992. After a break of more than ten years due to professional and family commitments, she took part in the World Seniors Championship in Bremen in 2006 and the European Seniors Championship in Rotterdam in 2007.

Private

After graduating from high school, she studied medicine at the Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg . In the mid-1980s she started a family and played under the name Dagmar Fischer , as far as "time allowed". After completing her specialist training as a pediatrician and a doctorate at the children's clinic of the university in question in the ultrasound diagnosis of muscle diseases, she has been working in her own practice as a pediatrician in her home town since 2003.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Player portrait Dagmar Fischer on ttvsa.de (accessed on February 2, 2016)
2. ↑ http://www.hameyer.eu/dttv/dttv-da-bu.pdf (accessed on April 14, 2011)

Web links

• Brief portrait (accessed on April 14, 2011)
• GDR championships (accessed on April 14, 2011) (PDF; 38 kB)
• Pediatric and Adolescent Practice Dr. med. Dagmar Fischer (accessed June 19, 2011)
• Image by Dagmar Fischer (accessed June 19, 2011)