Elke Schall-Suess

Elke Schall-Suess
Elke Wosik at the 2004 World Championships in Doha
Nation:	Germany
Date of birth:	19th July 1973
Place of birth:	Speyer
Playing hand:	Right handed
How to play:	Shakehand
Best world ranking :	29 (Oct - Dec 2005)
Current national ranking:	17th

Elke Schall-Süß , formerly Wosik (born July 19, 1973 in Speyer ) is a German table tennis player and trainer. She won the European Championship twice and with the team and came to 187 appointments to the national team.

Career

Elke Schall-Süß grew up in Heiligenstein , a district of the Palatinate Römerberg . At first she played handball in a boys' team, later she switched to the table tennis department of the TTV Römerberg. In the 6th school year she switched to the sports boarding school Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium in Kaiserslautern , where she was supported by the coaches Herbert Schwarz and Karl-Gerhard Emmerich. In the 11th year of school she dropped out of school and became a professional table tennis player.

Since the 2009/2010 season, the 187-time national player has been playing in the table tennis Bundesliga at DJK TuS Holsterhausen (now TUSEM Essen ) . In 2014 she ended her career as a competitive athlete for the time being. In 2018 she became active again at the Swiss first division club TTC Neuhausen .

On July 1, 2013, she was hired by the Hessian table tennis association HTTV as an association trainer, where she particularly looked after the next generation of women. In 2015 she switched to the German Table Tennis Center in Düsseldorf as a trainer .

Private

Elke Schall-Süß has three siblings. Her older brother Martin Schall played with SV 03 Tübingen in the second basketball league, although he has now ended his active basketball career and is now teaching as a high school teacher in Tübingen. In 1991 Elke Schall-Süß met the table tennis player Torben Wosik , with whom she was married from December 2001 to 2008. She has been the wife of table tennis player Christian Süß since June 2012 and calls herself Elke Schall-Süß . She has a daughter with him.

former clubs

• … -… TTV Römerberg
• … –1988 1st TTC Pirmasens
• 1988–1989 DJK SW RW Mainz-Finthen
• 1989–1991 VSC Donauwörth
• 1991–1994 TSG Dülmen
• 1994–1996 SC Bayer 05 Uerdingen
• 1996–1997 TTC Assenheim
• 1997–1999 SC Bayer 05 Uerdingen
• 1999–2000 SV winter advertising
• 2000–2002 Team Heidifoto Coesfeld
• 2002–2009 TV Busenbach
• 2009 -... DJK TuS Holsterhausen (today TUSEM Essen )

titles and achievements

• European youth champion in mixed 1991 (with Torben Wosik ), silver with the girls' team
• 2nd place in the Europe TOP-12 of the youth
• European champion 1996 and 1998 (women's team, doubles with Nicole Struse ),
• European Championship third 1996 (women singles),
• World Cup third 1997 (women's team),
• World Cup sixth women's team 2004 ,
• European Championship third 2000 (women's doubles),
• European Championship runner-up in 2000 and 2002 (women's team),
• European Championship third 2007 (women's doubles with Wu Jiaduo and team)
• seven-time winner of the Europa League ,
• six-time German champion in mixed,
• German champion in individual 2009
• two-time German champion (women's doubles: 1998 with Tanja Hain-Hofmann , 2000 with Nicole Struse ),
• DM runner-up in 1999, 2001, 2007 and 2008 (women's singles),
• German team champion 2005 with TV Busenbach
• Winning the national ranking tournament DTTB Top 12 in 1992 and 1997
• Table tennis player in 2003, 2005 and 2006

Game system

Attack (special strike: double-sided topspin game), right-handed, shakehand

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
GER	European Championship	2007	Belgrade	SRB	last 16	Semifinals
GER	European Championship	2005	Aarhus	THE	last 16	Quarter finals
GER	European Championship	2003	Courmayeur	ITA	last 16
GER	European Championship	2002	Zagreb	HRV	last 16		Quarter finals	2
GER	European Championship	2000	Bremen	GER	last 16	Semifinals	Quarter finals	2
GER	European Championship	1998	Eindhoven	NED		gold		1
GER	European Championship	1996	Bratislava	SVK	Semifinals	gold		1
GER	European Championship	1992	Stuttgart	GER			Quarter finals
GER	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1991	Granada	ESP			gold
GER	EURO TOP12	2010	Dusseldorf	GER	5th place
GER	EURO TOP12	2008	Frankfurt	GER	9th place
GER	EURO TOP12	2007	Arezzo	ITA	9th place
GER	EURO TOP12	2006	Copenhagen	THE	9th place
GER	EURO TOP12	2004	Frankfurt	GER	5th place
GER	EURO TOP12	2003	Saarbrücken	GER	5th place
GER	EURO TOP12	2000	Alassio	ITA	9
GER	Olympic games	2008	Beijing	CHN	last 64			13
GER	Olympic games	2004	Athens	GRE	last 32	last 32
GER	Olympic games	2000	Sydney	OUT	no participants	last 16
GER	Olympic games	1996	Atlanta	United States	no participants	immediately excluded
GER	Olympic games	1992	Barcelona	ESP	immediately excluded	immediately excluded
GER	Pro tour	2011	Almeria	ESP	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2011	Władysławowo	POLE	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2011	Dortmund	GER	last 64
GER	Pro tour	2010	Warsaw	POLE	last 64	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2010	catfish	AUT	last 64
GER	Pro tour	2010	Budaörs	HUN	last 32
GER	Pro tour	2010	Suzhou	CHN	last 64
GER	Pro tour	2010	Doha	QAT	last 32
GER	Pro tour	2010	Velenje	SVN	last 64	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2009	Warsaw	POLE	last 16	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2009	Bremen	GER	last 64	silver
GER	Pro tour	2009	Doha	QAT	last 32
GER	Pro tour	2009	Kuwait City	KUW	last 16	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2009	Frederikshavn	THE	Quarter finals	Semifinals
GER	Pro tour	2008	Warsaw	POLE	last 16	Semifinals
GER	Pro tour	2008	Singapore	SIN	last 32	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2008	Daejeon	COR	last 32
GER	Pro tour	2008	Yokohama	JPN	last 32			3
GER	Pro tour	2008	Doha	QAT	last 32	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2008	Velenje	SVN	last 32	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2007	Stockholm	SWE	last 64
GER	Pro tour	2007	Bremen	GER	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2007	catfish	AUT	last 32
GER	Pro tour	2007	Chiba	JPN	last 64	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2007	Seongnam	COR	last 64	Semifinals
GER	Pro tour	2007	Salwa Cup	KUW	last 32	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2007	Doha	QAT	last 16	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2007	Zagreb	HRV	last 32	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2006	Warsaw	POLE	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2006	Bayreuth	GER	last 16	Semifinals
GER	Pro tour	2006	Belgrade	SRB	last 64	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2006	Yokohama	JPN	last 32
GER	Pro tour	2006	Guangzhou	CHN	last 16	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2006	Taipei	TPE	Scratched	Scratched
GER	Pro tour	2006	Jeonju	COR	last 32	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2006	Kuwait City	KUW	last 32	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2006	Zagreb	HRV	last 64	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2005	Magdeburg	GER	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2005	St. Petersburg	RUS	Semifinals	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2005	Yokohama	JPN	last 16	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2005	Fort Lauderdale	United States	last 16	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2005	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2005	Doha	QAT	last 32
GER	Pro tour	2005	Zagreb	HRV	last 32	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2004	catfish	AUT	last 32
GER	Pro tour	2004	Leipzig	GER	last 32	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2004	Warsaw	POLE	last 32	Semifinals
GER	Pro tour	2004	Kobe	JPN	last 32
GER	Pro tour	2004	Singapore	SIN	last 16	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2004	Pyeongchang	COR	last 32	silver
GER	Pro tour	2003	Aarhus	THE	last 32
GER	Pro tour	2003	Bremen	GER	last 64
GER	Pro tour	2003	Doha	QAT	last 16	Semifinals
GER	Pro tour	2003	Croatia	HRV	last 64	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2002	Farum	THE	last 32	Semifinals
GER	Pro tour	2002	Warsaw	POLE	last 16	Semifinals
GER	Pro tour	2002	Eindhoven	NED	last 32
GER	Pro tour	2002	Magdeburg	GER	Quarter finals	Scratched
GER	Pro tour	2002	São Paulo	BRA	last 16	Semifinals
GER	Pro tour	2002	Fort Lauderdale	United States	last 32	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2002	Courmayeur	ITA	last 64	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2002	catfish	AUT	last 16	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2001	Skovde	SWE	last 32	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2001	Rotterdam	NED	last 16	last 32
GER	Pro tour	2001	Bayreuth	GER	last 32	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2001	Fort Lauderdale	United States	Scratched	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2001	Zagreb	HRV	last 32	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2000	Umeå	SWE	last 16	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2000	Warsaw	POLE	Rd 1	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2000	Toulouse	FRA	Rd 1	Semifinals
GER	Pro tour	2000	Zagreb	HRV	last 16	Semifinals
GER	Pro tour	1999	Karlskrona	SWE	last 32	last 16
GER	Pro tour	1999	Linz / Wels	AUT	last 32	Semifinals
GER	Pro tour	1999	Bremen	GER	last 32	last 16
GER	Pro tour	1999	Kobe City	JPN	last 32	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	1999	Guilin	CHN	last 32	Rd 1
GER	Pro tour	1999	Zagreb	HRV	Rd 1	gold
GER	Pro tour	1999	Hopton-on-Sea	CLOSELY	last 32	last 16
GER	Pro tour	1999	Doha	QAT	Rd 1	last 16
GER	Pro tour	1998	Sundsvall	SWE	Rd 1	last 16
GER	Pro tour	1998	Courmayeur	ITA	last 16	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	1998	Ji 'Nan City	CHN	Rd 1	last 16
GER	Pro tour	1997	Lyon	FRA	Quarter finals	last 16
GER	Pro tour	1997	Squid	SWE	last 32	last 16
GER	Pro tour	1997	Linz	AUT	Rd 1	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	1997	Gdańsk	POLE	Quarter finals	Semifinals
GER	Pro tour	1997	Zhuhai	CHN	Rd 1
GER	Pro tour	1997	Chiba	JPN	last 32	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	1997	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	last 16
GER	Pro tour	1997	Kettering	CLOSELY	last 32	silver
GER	Pro tour	1996	Lyon	FRA		Semifinals
GER	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2009	Macau	MAC		Semifinals
GER	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2005	Fuzhou	CHN	last 16
GER	World Championship	2010	Moscow	RUS				3
GER	World Championship	2009	Yokohama	JPN	last 32	last 16	Quarter finals
GER	World Championship	2008	Guangzhou	CHN				9
GER	World Championship	2007	Zagreb	HRV	last 64	last 64	last 32
GER	World Championship	2006	Bremen	GER				11
GER	World Championship	2005	Shanghai	CHN	last 32	last 32	last 64
GER	World Championship	2004	Doha	QAT				6th
GER	World Championship	2003	Paris	FRA	last 32	last 32	last 16
GER	World Championship	2001	Osaka	JPN	last 128	last 16	last 64	9
GER	World Championship	2000	Kuala Lumpur	MAS				5-8
GER	World Championship	1999	Eindhoven	NED	last 64	last 32	last 32
GER	World Championship	1997	Manchester	CLOSELY	last 128	last 32	last 32	3
GER	World Championship	1995	Tianjin	CHN	last 128	last 16	last 32	6th
GER	World Championship	1993	Gothenburg	SWE	no participants	last 32	no participants	6th
GER	World Championship	1991	Chiba City	JPN	last 64	Agony	last 64	13
GER	WTC World Team Cup	2007	Magdeburg	GER				5
GER	WTC World Team Cup	1995	Atlanta	United States				5
GER	WTC World Team Cup	1994	Nimes	FRA				2

literature

• Rahul Nelson: Die Könner - Elke Schall , DTS magazine , 1996/11 pages 4–7

Web links

• The main source for this article was the player portrait on the homepage of the German Table Tennis Association (accessed on August 21, 2012)
• Elke Schall-Süß biography on the website of the table tennis world association ittf.com (accessed August 5, 2011)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2014/8 page 18
2. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2019/1 page 7
3. ↑ Elke Schall-Süß new association trainer in Hessen ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Report from August 9, 2013 on tischtennis.de (accessed on August 10, 2013) 
4. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2015/6 page 7
5. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2012/7 page 7
6. ↑ Stella Helene enchants the Schall-Süß family ( memento of the original from May 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Report on tischtennis.de from May 3, 2017 (accessed on May 4, 2017)  
7. ↑ Elke Schall-Süß results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 14, 2011)