Erika Buchhold

Erika Buchhold (* around 1920 ) is a former German table tennis player . She was one of the best German players in the 1940s and early 1950s and won four bronze medals at German championships .

Career

In 1936, at the age of 16, Erika Buchhold began playing table tennis. She joined the TTC Schweinfurt association. She quickly increased her skill level and took part in the German championship for the first time in 1939 , where she lost to the later title holder Trude Pritzi . In 1939 she won the Bavarian championship in singles, in 1942 she won the South German championships in Frankfurt am Main in singles, doubles and mixed.

After the Second World War she played for 1.FC Schweinfurt 05 . She won a total of five titles at Bavarian Championships , namely in 1939, 1946 and 1949 in singles and in 1949 and 1950 in doubles with Edith Schmidt . After 1942, she won the title at the South German Championships three times. In 1950 she won the Bavarian selection in Wuppertal in Germany Cup .

In 1950, she took second place in the German rankings behind Hilde Bussmann . She achieved her greatest successes at German Championships , where she won four bronze medals, namely in 1950 in singles and in mixed with Buchholz (Augsburg) and in 1951 in doubles with Edith Schmidt and in mixed with Buchholz.

literature

• Morhard: We introduce: The South German Champion: Mrs. Erika Buchhold , DTS magazine , 1949/12 page 5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erika Buchhold was 16 years old in 1936 according to the DTS magazine , 1949/12 page 5
2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1956/3 page 11
3. ↑ Table tennis magazine, official organ of the Lower Saxony table tennis association, 2005/4 page 12 . Accessed November 22, 2018 (PDF; 847 kB)
4. ↑ Table tennis archive of Hans-Albert Meyer: German champions of women and men from 1931 to 2010 (places 1-4) Retrieved on November 22, 2018 (PDF; 669 kB)