Dietmar Schmidt (table tennis player)

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Dietmar Schmidt (* around 1939) is a German national table tennis player who was active as a competitive athlete in the 1950s.

Career

Dietmar Schmidt comes from Deggendorf . In 1953 he joined the TTC Straubing association. Two years later he became European champion with the German boys' team together with Dieter Köhler , Roland Süßmann and Horst Terbeck . At the German championship in 1956 he reached the semi-finals in the individual, where he failed to Bernhard Vossebein . In 1957 he was third in doubles with Josef Seiz . In April 1956 he was nominated for the international match against Belgium in Lüneburg. With two wins - against Georges Roland and Guy Delabarre - he contributed to the 5-0 success of the German team. In July 1956 Dietmar Schmidt was ranked eighth in the German ranking.

In 1957 Dietmar Schmidt moved to the TSV Milbertshofen club , with whom he was German team champion in the 1957/58 season. In the 1961/62 season he played for TV Haßfurt, then for the Würzburger Kickers .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1956 he was 17 years old according to the magazine DTS , 1956/3 issue West page 2
  2. ^ Association chronicle TTC Straubing - 1952 to 1954 (accessed on November 19, 2017)
  3. ↑ Manfred Schäfer: A game for life. 75 years of DTTB [1925 - 2000]. Ed .: German Table Tennis Association. DTTB, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , p. 165.
  4. ↑ German champions of women and men from 1931 (places 1-4) , table tennis archive by Hans-Albert Meyer (accessed on November 19, 2017)
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1956/14 West issue, page 1
  6. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1957/17 Page 9
  7. ↑ DTS magazine , 1961/17 page 10
  8. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1962/16 Page 5
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH around 1939