Edith Steinke

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Edith Steinke (born March 28, 1939 ) is a German table tennis player who had her top performance in the 1960s. She took part in a European and a world championship.

Career

Steinke first played for the ASV Berlin club . In 1955 she was second in doubles with Bärbel Bürger at the German youth championships. After the descent of ASV from the Oberliga Nord in the 1960/61 season, she moved to the 1961/62 season for TTC Blau-Gold Berlin , with whose women's team she was third at the German championships in the 1965/66 season. Until the 1967/68 season she stayed at TTC Blue-Gold in the Oberliga Nord. She won the championship title in singles at the Berlin championships in 1958/59 and several times in doubles and mixed doubles. At the North German Championships she won two championship titles in doubles: 1959/60 with Uschi Matthias and 1962/63 with Anita Haacke . In the individual competitions of the National German Championships she reached the semi-finals in doubles in 1960 with Uschi Matthias and in 1965 with Anita Haacke.

1959 Steinke was nominated for the individual competitions of the world championship in Dortmund. In doing so, she progressed one round in both singles and doubles. In the singles she won against Claudine Collignon (Belgium) and then suffered a defeat against the Swede Birgitta Tegner. In doubles with Annemie Mann , she defeated Maria Ignacia Hospital / Alicia Guri (Spain) and then lost to Haydon / Rowe . The mixed with Uschi Matthias was eliminated in the first round.

With Uschi Matthias she reached the double final at the International German Championships in Berlin in 1961.

Steinke also took part in the individual competitions at the European Championships in Berlin in 1962 and reached the quarter-finals in singles and doubles. The individual victories over Tine de Jong (Netherlands), Maria Ignacia Hospital (Spain) and Hanna Haering (Germany) were followed by a defeat against Uschi Matthias. The doubles with Anita Haacke defeated Loukia Scrivanou / Emilia Scrivanou (Greece) and Hanna Haering / Inge Natterer (Germany), but then lost to the Germans Oda Mielenhausen / Ilse Lantermann .

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
FRG European Championship 1962 Berlin FRG Quarter finals Quarter finals
FRG World Championship 1959 Dortmund FRG last 64 last 32 last 128

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In 1963 Edith Steinke was 24 years old according to the DTS magazine , 1963/19 p. 12
  2. ^ Association chronicle of the TTC Blau-Gold.
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1957/15 p. 13
  4. ↑ Manfred Schäfer: A game for life. 75 years of DTTB. (1925-2000) . Published by the German Table Tennis Association DTTB , Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , p. 168
  5. ↑ a b Original team report from July 17, 1961, in which Edith Steinke was reported at position 3 of the TTC Blau-Gold. According to the evaluation of the player statistics of the North German Table Tennis Association, she played at the TTC Blau-Gold continuously up to and including 1967/68.
  6. ↑ Axel Korsch: Festschrift 1927 - 1977. A chronicle of the Berlin Table Tennis Association , Berlin 1977, pp. 53–56
  7. ↑ ITTF statistics ( Memento from January 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed September 15, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Steinke, Edith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1939