Gertrude Pritzi

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Gertrude Pritzi, often also called Trude Pritzi (born January 15, 1920 in Vienna , † October 21, 1968 in Vienna), was an Austrian table tennis player . She achieved her greatest successes between 1936 and 1944 while she was a member of the Post SV Wien . In 1937 and 1938 she became world champion. She lived in Vienna and earned her living as a postal worker.

Life

Pritzi began her table tennis career at the Badner AC club , moved to Post SV Vienna in 1936 and finally to Austria Vienna in 1945 . Later she also played for First Vienna FC 1894 . In 1937 and 1938 she won the Austrian championship and prevailed against the then dominant Trude Wildam . In 1938 she also became world champion.

She had already reached the final at the World Cup in 1937, but this was canceled due to exceeding the time limit; the title was not awarded at the time - a curiosity in the history of table tennis. The world association ITTF has now corrected this decision : Since April 2001 Trude Pritzi and the American Ruth Hughes Aarons have been listed as "co-world champions".

After Austria was annexed to Germany in 1938, she performed for Germany at world championships. She was twice world champion in doubles. In 1938 she was ranked number 1 in the German ranking.

In 1968 Pritzi died of cancer and was buried in the Döblingen cemetery .

In 2010 she was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame .

successes

  • World championships
    • 1937 in Baden: 1st place singles together with Ruth Hughes Aarons , quarterfinals mixed
    • 1938 in London: 1st place singles, 3rd place mixed with Alfred Liebster (AUT), 3rd place with Austrian team
    • 1939 in Cairo: 2nd place singles, 1st place doubles with Hilde Bussmann , 3rd place mixed with Mansour Helmy (EGY), 1st place with German team
    • 1947 in Paris: 3rd place singles, 1st place doubles with Gizella Farkas (HUN)
    • 1948 in London: quarter-finals doubles
    • 1949 in Stockholm: 3rd place individual
    • 1951 in Vienna: 3rd place singles, quarter-finals mixed, 2nd place with Austrian team
    • 1952 in Bombay: quarter-finals doubles, quarter-finals mixed
    • 1953 in Bucharest: 3rd place with Austrian team
  • Gaume Championships
    • 1938 - 1st place with the Ostmark team
    • 1939 - 1st place with the Ostmark team
  • Austrian championships
    • 1937 - 1st place individual
    • 1938 - 1st place individual
    • 1946 in Vienna - 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Otti Graszl ), 1st place mixed (with Otto Eckl )
    • 1947 in Vienna - 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Otti Graszl ), 1st place mixed (with Otto Eckl )
    • 1948 in Innsbruck - 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Otti Graszl ), 1st place mixed (with Otto Eckl )
    • 1949 in Graz - 1st place singles, 1st place mixed (with Heinrich Bednar )
    • 1950 in Linz - 2nd place individual
    • 1951 in Salzburg - 1st place singles, 1st place mixed (with Otto Eckl )
    • 1952 in Vienna - 1st place singles, 1st place mixed (with Otto Eckl )
    • 1953 in Bregenz - 1st place individual
    • 1954 in Klagenfurt - 2nd place singles, 1st place doubles with Fritzi Lauber
    • 1955 in Vienna - 1st place singles, 1st place doubles with Fritzi Lauber
  • German team championship
    • 1939 - 1st place with Postsportverein Vienna
  • International championships
    • 1935 Austria - 1st place individual
    • 1937 Germany - 1st place singles, 2nd place doubles with Věra Votrubcová (CSSR)
    • 1938 Germany - 1st place individual
    • 1938 Czechoslovakia - 1st place individual
    • 1939 Germany - 1st place singles, 1st place doubles with Hilde Bussmann , 2nd place mixed with Karl Sediwy
    • 1946 Czechoslovakia - 1st place individual
    • 1947 Czechoslovakia - 1st place individual
    • 1947 Hungary - 1st place doubles with Gizella Farkas (HUN)
    • 1948 Czechoslovakia - 1st place individual
    • 1949 Czechoslovakia - 1st place individual
    • 1949 Wales - 1st place singles
    • 1950 Belgium - 1st place individual
    • 1950 Geneva (Switzerland) - 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Peter), 1st place mixed (with Meyer de Stadelhofen )
    • 1950 Yugoslavia - 1st place individual
    • 1951 England - 1st place singles
    • 1954 Germany - 2nd place doubles with Ermelinde Wertl (AUT)
    • 1956 Basel (Switzerland) - 1st place individual

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
AUT  World Championship  1955  Utrecht  NED   last 128  Quarter finals  last 16  4th 
AUT  World Championship  1954  Wembley  CLOSELY   last 64  no participants  last 32  4th 
AUT  World Championship  1953  Bucharest  ROU   last 32  last 16  last 32  3
AUT  World Championship  1952  Bombay  IND   Quarter finals  Quarter finals  Quarter finals  4th 
AUT  World Championship  1951  Vienna  AUT   Semifinals  Quarter finals  Quarter finals  2
AUT  World Championship  1950  Budapest  HUN   Quarter finals  last 32  last 16  7th 
AUT  World Championship  1949  Stockholm  SWE   Semifinals  last 16  last 32  5 
AUT  World Championship  1948  Wembley  CLOSELY   Quarter finals  Quarter finals  last 16  11 
AUT  World Championship  1947  Paris  FRA   Semifinals  gold  last 16  9 
GER  World Championship  1939  Cairo  EGY   silver  gold  Semifinals  1
AUT  World Championship  1938  Wembley  CLOSELY   gold  Scratched  Semifinals  3
AUT  World Championship  1937  to bathe  AUT   gold  last 16  Quarter finals  4th 
AUT  World Championship  1936  Prague  TCH   last 32  no participants  no participants  4th 

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 2001/6 page 9
  2. ↑ Philip Bauer: Trude Pritzi: Deceased 1968, World Champion 2001. Der Standard from May 23, 2017.
  3. ↑ Grave data (accessed April 1, 2019)
  4. ↑ ITTF Hall of Fame (accessed April 1, 2019)
  5. ↑ ITTF database (accessed April 1, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Pritzi, Gertrude
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pritzi, Trude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1968
Place of death Vienna