Ermelinde Wertl

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Ermelinde Wertl - also Linde Wertl - (born March 27, 1934 in Guggenbach (district of Übelbach , Austria); † July 2004 in Vienna ) was an Austrian table tennis player . She won silver four times at world championships in the 1950s.

Career

Wertl was discovered and promoted in the Guggenbach table tennis club by Josef Fähnrich, then Vice President of the Styrian Table Tennis Association. She stayed with this club until 1951, after which she moved to Vienna. In 1950 she won the Austrian championship for the first time. In early 1951 she made her debut in the national team. In the international match against Germany, she defeated Hilde Bussmann . From 1951 she was looked after by the Yugoslav Tibor Harangozo .

From 1950 to 1955, Wertl was nominated for all six world championships . At the 1951 World Cup , she won silver with the team and in mixed. She won further silver medals in 1953 with the Austrian team and in 1955 in the individual. In total, Wertl played 35 international matches, winning 34 games and losing 10.

In the ITTF world rankings she was third in 1954, in the national Austrian rankings she was in first place in 1957/58. In 1957 she announced the end of her active career, but in mid-1958 she made a comeback when she won a tournament in Leningrad and the championship of Austria. In the early 1980s she tried a comeback at the Wiener SV Ministry of Social Affairs, but her playing strength had clearly decreased.

Private

After moving to Vienna in 1951, Wertl came to live with the married couple Anita and Heinrich Nitschmann, who are known in Austrian table tennis circles. She worked as a secretary at Semperit AG . At the beginning of August 1954 she married a doctor and then appeared under the name Wertl-Rumpler . In 1957 a son named Herbert was born.

In 2004 Wertl died in Vienna, her body was cremated.

Your trophies and medals were brought to the Viennese “Table Tennis Center”, the oldest table tennis hall in Europe (formerly Heitzmann- or Trude Pritzi-Halle).

successes

  • World championships
    • 1950 : 7th place with the team
    • 1951 : quarter-finals in singles and doubles, silver in mixed (with Vilim Harangozo , Yugoslavia), silver with the team
    • 1952 : Semi-finals in singles and doubles (with Helen Elliot , Scotland), quarter-finals in mixed, 4th place with the team
    • 1953 : quarter-finals in singles, semi-finals in doubles (with Kathleen Best , England), silver in mixed (with Žarko Dolinar , Yugoslavia), 3rd place with the team
    • 1954 : Semi-finals in mixed (with Žarko Dolinar , Yugoslavia), 4th place with the team
    • 1955 : Silver in singles, quarter-finals in doubles, 4th place with the team
  • International championships
    • 1951 Belgium: individual victory
    • 1952 England: individual victory
    • 1953/54 Yugoslavia: individual victory
    • 1953/54 Austria: Victory in the individual
    • 1953/54 England: individual victory
    • 1953/54 France: Victory in the individual
    • 1953/54 Belgium: individual victory
    • 1943/54 Germany: 2nd place in singles and doubles (with Trude Pritzi )

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
AUT World Championship 1955 Utrecht NED silver Quarter finals last 16 4th
AUT World Championship 1954 Wembley CLOSELY last 16 last 64 Semifinals 4th
AUT World Championship 1953 Bucharest ROU Quarter finals Semifinals silver 3
AUT World Championship 1952 Bombay IND Semifinals Semifinals Quarter finals 4th
AUT World Championship 1951 Vienna AUT Quarter finals Quarter finals silver 2
AUT World Championship 1950 Budapest HUN last 64 last 16 last 32 7th

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ... died in July 2004 at the age of 71. NEWS SHEET OF THE MARKTGEMEINDE ÜBELBACH • VOL. 35 - NO. 155 - OCTOBER 2006 ( Memento from June 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ History of the TTC-Übelbach : In 1951, Linde Wertl became the youngest table tennis champion at the age of 16 (accessed on June 20, 2012)
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1951/19 p. 3
  4. ↑ Zeitschrift Tischtennis-Schau 1971/3 p. 17 Online (accessed on May 18, 2012) (PDF; 3.6 MB)
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1954/19 p. 1
  6. ↑ Austrian table tennis shop 1966/02 (accessed on 7 March 2011; PDF; 2.4 MB)
  7. ↑ a b DTS magazine , 1957/22 p. 1
  8. ↑ DTS magazine , 1958/12 p. 2
  9. ↑ PDF at ttchke.home.pages.at ( 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ttchke.home.pages.at
  10. ↑ DTS magazine , 1954/16 p. 3
  11. ↑ Ermelinde Wertl results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 17, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Wertl, Ermelinde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wertl, Linde; Wertl-Rumpler, Ermelinde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Guggenbach
DATE OF DEATH July 2004
Place of death Vienna