Dieter Knappe

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Dieter Knappe (born December 30, 1939 in Frankfurt (Oder) , † April 5, 2002 ) was an East German table tennis player . He took part in the 1959 World Cup.

Career

Knappe began his career at the SC Lokomotive Leipzig association , to which he belonged until 1959. In 1956 he was GDR youth champion. In 1958, he was ranked eighth in the GDR rankings. At the GDR championships in 1958 he was third in doubles with Heinz Haupt . A year later he reached top places in all three competitions: third in singles and second in doubles with Dieter Lauk and in mixed with Christa Bannach .

In 1959, Knappe joined the BSG Stahl Blankenburg association. Here he was involved in the rise of the men's team in the association league in 1960, which was then the second highest division in the GDR. He belonged to this association until the end of his life.

In 1959 he was nominated by the table tennis association of the GDR for the individual competitions of the world championship in Dortmund. He was eliminated from the singles in the first round against Jaroslav Staněk (Czechoslovakia). In doubles he played with the Romanian Radu Negulescu . With victories over John de Korver / Frans Robers (Netherlands) and Joseph Demolin / Vojin Djordjevic (Belgium) they reached the third round, where they were defeated by Hungarians Zoltán Bubonyi / László Pigniczki .

For his services to the development of table tennis in the GDR, Knappe was awarded the gold pin of honor by the GDR table tennis association DTTV in 1981.

family

Knappe was married. His brother Bodo Knappe, a former football league player of the SC Einheit Dresden , was married to the table tennis player Liane Rödel († 2002).

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
GDR  World Championship  1959  Dortmund  FRG   last 256  last 32  last 64   

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1959/16 page 1
  2. ↑ a b c Chronicle of the TT department Blankenburg ( Memento from June 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed April 1, 2019)
  3. ↑ Table tennis magazine, official organ of the Lower Saxony table tennis association 2007/10, page 13
  4. ^ GDR championship 1958 ( memento from September 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed April 1, 2019)
  5. ^ GDR championship 1959 ( memento from September 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on April 1, 2019)
  6. ↑ ITTF database ( Memento from January 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed April 1, 2019)

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personal data
SURNAME Knappe, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 2002