Edit Buchholz

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Edit Buchholz (right) with Ingrid Kriegelstein at the German table tennis championships for women (1966)

Edit Buchholz (later Edit Wetzel ) (born April 19, 1941 in Neumünster ) was one of the best German table tennis players in the 1960s and 1970s . The three-time German champion won the European championship twice with the women's team.

The Kiel TTK Green-White Association

Edit's mother Luise Buchholz was a strong table tennis player and a lifelong member of the Kieler TTK Grün-Weiß . From her, Edit Buchholtz inherited the talent for playing table tennis and loyalty to the club: Edit always played at the KTTK Grün-Weiß.

With the Kiel team, the defender reached the final of the German championship every year from 1961 to 1974 (with the exception of 1971 and 1973). Mostly DTC Kaiserberg was the opponent. They won the German championship three times, namely in 1961, 1964 and 1974, and were runner-up ten times.

Edit Buchholz won the German Cup three times with Kiel, and they came second six times.

National and international level

From 1960, Edit Buchholz regularly took part in national and international tournaments with success. She won the German championship three times in singles, seven times in doubles and twice in mixed.

Between 1962 and 1977 she was appointed to international matches for the German women's national team 73 times. She played at 5 world championships and 7 European championships. In 1962 and 1968 she won the gold medal with the women.

From 1982 Edit - she had married in 1970 and was now called Edit Wetzel - took part in senior gaming operations. She won the German senior championship several times and was also the German senior team champion in 1984 with Kiel. Even today (2004) Edit Wetzel plays actively with the second team from Kiel in the regional league.

In between, Edit Wetzel had given up table tennis for two years in favor of tennis, but then found back to table tennis.

Awards

In 1966 the state of Schleswig-Holstein awarded Edit Wetzel the sports badge of the state of Schleswig-Holstein . She also received the gold pin of honor and the Victor Barna Prize from the DTTB in 1964 . On 2011 she received the Federal President's Medal of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Private

Edit Wetzel's entire family plays table tennis.

Her mother Luise Buchholz was the top player in the Kiel TTK Grün-Weiß in the 1950s . She was still active at the age of 80 and reached the 3rd place at the state championships for senior citizens (75+) in Flensburg. Her father was a ladies' manager at the Kiel TTK.

Edit Wetzel successfully played handball with her twin sister Ellen in the early 1960s for the Holstein Kiel club . Later she concentrated on the sport of table tennis.

With her husband Uwe Wetzel she won the mixed championship of Schleswig-Holstein in 1982, with her sister Ellen Haack (around 1960 Oberliga with TTK Kiel) she won this tournament in doubles; She also won the German championship for senior citizens (U40) in doubles with her in 1983 and 1984. Edit Wetzel has a second sister and two brothers.

Edit Wetzel has two children. Her daughter Sabine (born April 1, 1973) is also a strong TT player. At the end of the 1980s she played at TTK Kiel in the 2nd Bundesliga, later in Berlin in the 2nd BL, then at Rapid-Kappel Chemnitz in the Regional League. She is married to Michael Schmidt. Edit Wetzel's son Thorsten is also active at TTK Kiel.

Sporting successes

  • Participation in 5 world championships
    • 1959 in Dortmund: only individual competition
    • 1963 in Prague: Round of 16 doubles with Ingrid Kriegelstein , 5th place with women's team
    • 1965 in Ljubljana: Round of 16 singles, 6th place with women's team
    • 1967 in Stockholm: quarter-finals doubles with Agnes Simon , round of 16 mixed, 7th place with women's team
    • 1969 in Munich: quarter finals singles, 5th place with women's team
  • Participation in 7 European championships
    • 1962 in West Berlin: quarter-finals singles, quarter-finals doubles with Ursel Fiedler , quarter-finals mixed with Erich Arndt , 1st place with women's team
    • 1964 in Malmö: 6th place with women's team
    • 1966 in London: 3rd place doubles (with Agnes Simon ), 4th place with women's team
    • 1968 in Lyon: Round of 16 singles, quarter finals doubles, 1st place with women's team
    • 1970 in Moscow: Round of 16 singles, 7th place with women's team
    • 1972 in Rotterdam: Round of 16 singles, 2nd place with women's team
    • 1974 in Novi Sad: Round of 16 singles, quarter-finals doubles, 6th place with women's team
  • International championships
    • 1960 Berlin (GER): 3rd place mixed (with Karl Wegrath )
    • 1961 France: 2nd place doubles (with Heide Dauphin), 3rd place mixed (with Dieter Köhler)
    • 1962 St.Ingbert (GER): 3rd place individual, 3rd place mixed (with Erich Arndt )
    • 1962 Scandinavia: 3rd place singles, 3rd place doubles (with Ingrid Kriegelstein), 3rd place mixed (with Erich Arndt)
    • 1963 Frankfurt / Main (GER): 3rd place mixed (with Erich Arndt )
    • 1963 England: 3rd place singles
    • 1963 Netherlands: 1st place singles, 1st place mixed (with Ernst Gomolla ), 3rd place doubles (Rosemarie Seidel)
    • 1963 Scandinavia: 3rd place singles, 3rd place doubles (with Inge Harst)
    • 1964 Romania: 3rd place doubles (with Heide Dauphin), 3rd place mixed (with Edvard Vecko)
    • 1964 Wolfsburg (GER): 3rd place doubles (with Heide Dauphin )
    • 1964 England: 3rd place doubles (with Heide Dauphin)
    • 1964 Netherlands: 3rd place mixed (with Ernst Gomolla)
    • 1964 Austria: 2nd place mixed (with Ernst Gomolla), 3rd place doubles (with Heide Dauphin)
    • 1965 CSSR: 2nd place doubles (with Ingrid Kriegelstein)
    • 1965 Netherlands: 1st place doubles (with Agnes Simon )
    • 1965 Hungary: 2nd place doubles (with Agnes Simon)
    • 1966 Lübeck (GER): 2nd place doubles (with Agnes Simon), 3rd place mixed (with Dieter Weitz )
    • 1966 Austria: 3rd place doubles (with Agnes Simon)
    • 1966 Yugoslavia: 2nd place doubles (with Diane Schöler)
    • 1967 CSSR: 3rd place doubles (with Agnes Simon)
    • 1967 Belgium: 3rd place singles, 2nd place doubles (with Agnes Simon)
    • 1967 Yugoslavia: 3rd place mixed (with Eberhard Schöler )
    • 1968 Romania: 1st place doubles (with Agnes Simon)
    • 1968 Netherlands: 2nd place singles, 1st place doubles (with Agnes Simon)
    • 1969 England: 3rd place doubles (with Diane Schöler)
    • 1970 Netherlands: 1st place doubles (with Diane Schöler )
    • 1970 Austria: 3rd place doubles (with Agnes Simon)
    • 1972 Hagen (GER): 3rd place doubles (with Diane Schöler )
    • 1972 CSSR: 3rd place singles, 2nd place doubles (with Wiebke Hendriksen)
    • 1973 Poland: 1st place doubles (with Agnes Simon)
    • 1974 Munich (GER): 2nd place singles, 3rd place doubles (with Wiebke Hendriksen )
  • German Cup Championship with Kiel TTK Green-White
    • 1963 in Oberlar: 1st place
    • 1964 - 1969: 2nd place
    • 1970 in Asbach: 1st place
    • 1973 in Schwalmstadt: 1st place
  • Germany Cup
    • 1970 in Witten: 1st place with Schleswig-Holstein
    • 1972 in Osnabrück: 1st place with Schleswig-Holstein
  • German team championship with Kiel TTK Grün-Weiß
    • 1961 in Rheinfelden: 1st place
    • 1962 in Duisburg: 2nd place
    • 1963 in Kiel: 2nd place
    • 1964 in Kiel: 1st place
    • 1965-1970: 2nd place
    • 1972 in Rendsburg: 2nd place
    • 1974 in Koblenz: 1st place
  • National ranking tournaments
    • 1963 in Mainz: 2nd place
    • 1964 in Mölln: 1st place
    • 1965 in Berlin: 3rd place
    • 1966 in Wiesloch: 3rd place
    • 1967 in Hagen: 4th place
    • 1968 in Saarbrücken: 1st place
    • 1969 in Siegen: 3rd place
    • 1971 in Duisburg: 4th place
    • 1974 in Löhne: 4th place
    • 1975 in Hattersheim: 4th place
    • 1976 in Elsenfeld: 3rd place
  • Senior tournaments
    • 1982 German Senior Championship in Essen: 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Lisa Danker), 1st place mixed (with Klaus Kreisel)
    • 1983 German Over 40 Championship in Zweibrücken: 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Ellen Haak), 2nd place mixed (with Klaus Kreisel)
    • 1984 German Over 40 Championship in Bad Schwartau: 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Ellen Haak), 1st place mixed (with Klaus Kreisel)
    • 1985 German Championship 40+ in Krefeld: 2nd place singles, 2nd place doubles (with Ellen Haak), 1st place mixed (with Klaus Kreisel)
    • 1986 German Championship 40+ in Baunatal: 1st place individual, 1st place mixed (with Klaus Kreisel)
    • 1984 German team champion with Kiel TTK green-white
    • 2013 Victory at the Senior European Championships in Bremen in the age group 70+ in doubles with Ellen Haak
  • Leaderboards
    • 1964: 1st place in the German ranking list
    • 1968: 6th place in the European ranking
    • 1968: 1st place in the German ranking
    • 1969: 11th place in the ITTF world rankings

Results from the ITTF database

Association competition year place country singles Double Mixed team
FRG  European Championship  1974  Novi Sad  YUG   last 16  Quarter finals     
FRG  European Championship  1972  Rotterdam  NED   last 16      2
FRG  European Championship  1970  Moscow  URS   last 16       
FRG  European Championship  1968  Lyon  FRA   last 16  Quarter finals    1
FRG  European Championship  1966  London  CLOSELY     Semifinals     
FRG  European Championship  1962  Berlin  FRG   Quarter finals  Quarter finals  Quarter finals  1
FRG  EURO TOP12  1975  Vienna  AUT   10       
FRG  World Championship  1969  Munich  FRG   Quarter finals  Agony  last 64  5 
FRG  World Championship  1967  Stockholm  SWE   last 64  Quarter finals  last 16  7th 
FRG  World Championship  1965  Ljubljana  YUG   last 16  last 32  last 16  6th 
FRG  World Championship  1963  Prague  TCH   last 32  last 16  last 32  9 
FRG  World Championship  1959  Dortmund  FRG   last 32  last 64  last 128   

literature

  • Edit Buchholz has sport in her blood , DTS magazine , 1966/5 p. 6
  • Wulf Danker: Edit Wetzel - Good with endurance , DTS magazine , 1997/12 p. 30

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to magazine DTS , 1977/9 edition southwest p.17 Edit Wetzel was born on 22 April.
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1964/14 West issue p. 1
  3. ↑ Award of the Medal of Merit to Edit Wetzel ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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. (accessed on December 13, 2011)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tischtennis.de
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1961/18 West issue p. 4
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1988/6 p. 24
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1988/8 p. 32
  7. ↑ Results of the Senior European Championship 2013 (accessed on June 4, 2013)
  8. ↑ Edit Buchholz results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 4, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Buchholz, Edit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wetzel, Edit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Neumunster