Dana Weber

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Dana Weber , b. Kressová (born November 12, 1969 in Prague , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech and German table tennis player and trainer. With TSG Dülmen she became German team champion.

Career

Dana Kressová came in the 1986/87 season to the team of DSO Slovan Orbis Prague in the national game operation of the 1st division. With the team she won three silver and one bronze medals at the Czechoslovak championships. In the 1987/88 season she won third place in the first table tennis league of the Czechoslovakia with the team consisting of Alena Šafářová , Kressová, Hana Valentová and Pavla Rampová. Still playing for the club, renamed Sokol Nusle in 1989, Kressová won second place in the national first division together with Alena Šafářová, Daniela Davídková and Petra Hošková in the 1990/91 season. In the ETTU Cup, the team Alena Šafářová, Kressová and Daniela Davídková came third.

In 1991 she moved from Sokol Nusle Prague to Germany to KSV Hessen Kassel . In 1992 she married the table tennis trainer of ASV JOOLA Landau Ralf Weber (* 1966, † 2018) and from then on played under the name Dana Weber . In May 1995 she received German citizenship.

Via the intermediate station TV Bergen-Enkheim 1993/94 she came to TSG Dülmen in 1994 with which she became German champion in 1995. From 1996 to 1998 she played for the Bundesliga club TSV Betzingen , then as a player-coach at BTTF Zweibrücken and since 2006 with TTF Frankenthal in the regional league.

Kressová won 22 medals at national championships. In the Czech championship she won once in singles and in doubles at the ČSFR championship she won 3rd place. With the team she took second place in the Europa League . She also won individual silver at the International Finnish Championships and bronze at the International Polish Championships.

trainer

Dana Kressová graduated from the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport of Charles University in Prague with a degree in sport, Czech and table tennis. This formed the basis for her coaching activity. In 1997 she was hired by the German Table Tennis Association (DTTB) to look after the youngsters at the Heidelberg table tennis center. In 2006 she moved to the newly built table tennis center in Düsseldorf, where she looked after young people aged 13 to 18. Since January 1, 2008, she has been the national coach for schoolgirls as the successor to Ronald Raue . In 2019, the girls' team became European youth champions in Ostrava under her leadership. In the same year Weber was voted Trainer of the Year for the 2018/19 season. She is the second table tennis player after Jie Schöpp (2016) with this title.

Private

Dana Weber is the mother of a son (* 1992).

swell

  • Dana Weber and the children , DTS magazine , 1997/11 page 32
  • Heinz Lambert: A life for sport , DTS magazine , 1998/10 regional southwest page 13
  • Udo Schöpfer: Dana Weber trains the next generation , tischtennis magazine , 2006/12 regional southwest page 1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of TJ Sokol Nusle (accessed on January 28, 2017)
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1991/6 page 9
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1995/6 page 51 + 1995/8 page 26
  4. ↑ National trainer ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mi51.de
  5. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2019/8 pages 726-27
  6. ↑ Dana Weber voted trainer of the year! Article dated December 23, 2019 (accessed January 11, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Dana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kressova, Dana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player and trainer
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague