Diane Schöler

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Diane Rowe (left) and Mary Shannon (1963)

Diane Schöler (née Rowe) (born April 14, 1933 in Marylebone near London ) is a former British - German table tennis player . Between 1951 and 1973 she won 20 medals at world championships and 14 medals at European championships, the majority of them as British; In 1951 and 1954 she celebrated her greatest successes and was both world champion in doubles. From 1966 she competed as a German and won four of her medals.

Career

In 1933 twin sisters Diane and Rosalind Rowe were born. At the age of 14 they started playing table tennis seriously. They became a member of the Ealing club in western London, where the multiple world champion Victor Barna trained and promoted them athletically.

Diane was left handed. She played defense until the 1951 World Cup, after which she switched her style to attack. By 1966 she played more than 200 international matches for England and took part in 11 world championships during this time. She won the gold medal in doubles with her sister in 1951 and 1954. That's why they were often called the Rowe twins . In 1962 and 1964, Diane was European champion in doubles with Mary Shannon .

In early 1966 she married the top German player Eberhard Schöler , with whom she has a daughter. From then on she lived in Düsseldorf and was a member of Post SV Düsseldorf . She was nominated for a German international match for the first time in October 1966, where she lost her individual against Hungary in Weissenthurm . For Germany, she started four more world championships from 1967.

On April 27, 1973, she resigned from international competitive sport when she played her 70th and last international match for Germany.

Functionary and author

She then worked as a trainer and ladies' manager for the West German Table Tennis Association until 1997 . In 1993 she received the ITTF Merit Award . From 1997 to 2013 she was President of the Swaythling Club International . For her services to table tennis, she was awarded the Dr. Dieter Mauritz Memorial Prize awarded.

Known her books The Twins on Table Tennis , which she in 1955 with her sister Rosalind published, as well as the 1965 released Table Tennis .

successes

  • World championships
    • 1951 in Vienna
    • 1952 in Bombay
    • 1953 in Bucharest
      • 3rd place single
      • 2nd place doubles (with Rosalind Rowe )
      • 2nd place with Team England
    • 1954 at Wembley
      • Quarterfinals singles
      • 1st place doubles (with Rosalind Rowe )
      • 3rd place with Team England
    • 1955 in Utrecht
      • Quarterfinals singles
      • 2nd place doubles (with Rosalind Rowe )
      • 3rd place with Team England
    • 1956 in Tokyo
      • Quarterfinals singles
      • 3rd place doubles (with Ann Haydon , ENG)
      • 2nd place with Team England
    • 1957 in Stockholm
    • 1959 in Dortmund
    • 1961 in Beijing
      • Quarterfinals singles
    • 1963 in Prague
    • 1965 in Ljubljana
      • 3rd place with Team England
    • 1967 in Stockholm
      • 1. Participation for Germany, not used in a team
    • 1969 in Munich
      • 5th place with Team Germany
    • 1971 in Nagoya
    • 1973 in Sarajevo
      • 7th place with Team Germany
  • European championships
    • 1958 in Budapest
      • Quarterfinals singles
      • 3rd place doubles (with Ann Haydon , ENG)
      • 1st place with Team England
    • 1960 in Zagreb
      • 3rd place single
      • 2nd place with Team England
    • 1962 in West Berlin
      • 2nd place single
      • 1st place doubles (with Mary Shannon , ENG)
      • 3rd place mixed (with Robert Stevens, ENG)
      • 2nd place with Team England
    • 1964 in Malmö
      • 1st place doubles (with Mary Shannon , ENG)
      • 1st place with Team England
    • 1966 in London
    • 1968 in Lyon
    • 1970 in Moscow
      • Quarterfinals singles
      • 2nd place doubles (with Agnes Simon )
      • Quarterfinals Mixed
      • 7th place with Team Germany
    • 1972 in Rotterdam
      • Quarterfinals singles
      • Quarterfinals doubles
      • 2nd place with Team Germany
  • Europe TOP-12
    • 1972 in Zagreb: 8th place
    • 1973 in Böblingen: 11th place
  • International championships
    • 1950–1955 England - 1st place doubles (with Rosalind Rowe )
    • 1952 Netherlands - 1st place individual
    • 1953 Netherlands - 1st place individual
    • 1953 France - 1st place individual
    • 1956 England - 1st place doubles (with Ann Haydon )
    • 1956 Netherlands - 1st place individual
    • 1960 Germany - 2nd place individual
    • 1960 Germany - 1st place doubles (with Kathleen Best , ENG)
    • 1960 England - 1st place doubles (with Catherine Best)
    • 1961 Netherlands - 1st place doubles (with Rosemarie Gomolla )
    • 1961 Wales - 1st place singles
    • 1962 England - 1st place singles
    • 1962–1965 England - 1st place doubles (with Mary Shannon )
    • 1962 Netherlands - 1st place individual
    • 1962 Wales - 1st place singles
    • 1962 (Dec) Wales - 1st place singles
    • 1964 Belgium - 1st place individual
    • 1964 Ireland - 1st place singles
    • 1964 Germany - 3rd place singles, 2nd place doubles (with Mary Shannon , ENG)
    • 1965 Germany - 2nd place singles, 1st place doubles (with Mary Shannon , ENG)
    • 1966 Germany - 3rd place singles, 1st place doubles (with Mary Shannon-Wright , ENG)
    • 1968 Netherlands - 1st place singles, 1st place mixed (with Eberhard Schöler )
    • 1969 Hungary - 1st place singles, 1st place mixed (with Eberhard Schöler )
    • 1969 Belgium - 1st place doubles (with Agnes Simon ), 1st place mixed (with Eberhard Schöler )
    • 1969 England - 1st place mixed (with Eberhard Schöler )
    • 1970 Germany - 2nd place doubles (with Agnes Simon ), 3rd place mixed (with Eberhard Schöler )
    • 1970 CSSR - 1st place mixed (with Eberhard Schöler )
    • 1972 Germany - 3rd place doubles (with Edit Wetzel )
    • 1972 Austria - 1st place doubles (with Agnes Simon )
  • Ranking positions
    • 1953 ITTF world rankings : 5th place
    • 1962 European ranking list ETTU: 3rd place
    • 1970 German ranking: 1st place
    • 1972 German ranking: 1st place

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
FRG  European Championship  1972  Rotterdam  NED   Quarter finals  Quarter finals    2
FRG  European Championship  1970  Moscow  URS   Quarter finals  silver  Quarter finals   
CLOSELY  European Championship  1966  London  CLOSELY   Quarter finals  Semifinals     
CLOSELY  European Championship  1964  Malmo  SWE     gold  Quarter finals  1
CLOSELY  European Championship  1962  Berlin  FRG   silver  gold  Semifinals  2
CLOSELY  European Championship  1960  Zagreb  YUG   Semifinals  Semifinals    2
CLOSELY  European Championship  1958  Budapest  HUN   Quarter finals  Semifinals    1
FRG  EURO TOP12  1973  Boeblingen  FRG   11       
FRG  EURO TOP12  1972  Zagreb  YUG   8th       
FRG  World Championship  1973  Sarajevo  YUG   last 64  last 16  last 16  7th 
FRG  World Championship  1971  Nagoya  JPN   last 64  last 16  Semifinals  7th 
FRG  World Championship  1969  Munich  FRG   Quarter finals  last 16  Quarter finals  5 
FRG  World Championship  1967  Stockholm  SWE   last 16  last 16  Quarter finals   
CLOSELY  World Championship  1965  Ljubljana  YUG   last 16  last 16  last 64  3
CLOSELY  World Championship  1963  Prague  TCH   last 16  silver  last 64  5 
CLOSELY  World Championship  1961  Beijing  CHN   Quarter finals  last 32  last 32  7th 
CLOSELY  World Championship  1959  Dortmund  FRG   last 32  Semifinals  last 64  4th 
CLOSELY  World Championship  1957  Stockholm  SWE   last 16  silver  Quarter finals  4th 
CLOSELY  World Championship  1956  Tokyo  JPN   Quarter finals  Semifinals  last 16  2
CLOSELY  World Championship  1955  Utrecht  NED   Quarter finals  silver  last 16  3
CLOSELY  World Championship  1954  Wembley  CLOSELY   Quarter finals  gold  Quarter finals  3
CLOSELY  World Championship  1953  Bucharest  ROU   Semifinals  silver  Quarter finals  2
CLOSELY  World Championship  1952  Bombay  IND   last 16  silver  silver  3
CLOSELY  World Championship  1951  Vienna  AUT   last 32  gold  Semifinals  3

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German table tennis sport . 1966/20 issue south-west pages 6–7.
  2. ^ German table tennis sport . 1993/6 page 10.
  3. ^ German table tennis sport . 1997/12 page 32.
  4. ^ German table tennis sport . 2001/7 page 27.
  5. ↑ Diane Schöler Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 14, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Schöler, Diane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rowe, Diane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Marylebone