Hannelore Hanft

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Hannelore Hanft (* 1932 , married Hannelore Gießler ) is a former German table tennis player from the 1950s. She won twelve titles at GDR championships.

successes

Hanft was a defender. In 1949 she won the individual competition at the GDR youth championships, which were held for the first time. She played for the club BSG Einheit Ost Erfurt, with whom she won the GDR women's team championship in 1953/54 and 1954/55. At the GDR individual championships, she won twelve titles, namely once in singles, five times in doubles and six times in mixed. She always competed in doubles with Grete Herber . Until 1954, GDR activists were also allowed to take part in the National German Championships . Hanft / Gerber took advantage of this and won the German championship in doubles in 1953. With the team from Thuringia, Hanft won the German Cup in 1953/54 .

When an all-German team competed at the 1955 World Cup in Utrecht, hemp was nominated for this. She reached 16th place with the women's team. In the individual, she prevailed against Gisele Jeannotin (France). Then she lost to Nel Groot from the Netherlands. In doubles with Kohn , she failed in the first round to the later semi-finalists Fujie Eguchi / Kiiko Watanabe from Japan. The mixed with Heinz Schneider advanced one round against Günter Hoffmann / Eva Graf (Saarland), but then lost to Toshiaki Tanaka / Shizuka Narahara (Japan).

In the overall German ranking, Hanft was in fifth place in 1954.

Title overview

  • GDR championships
    • 1950 Mixed with Heinz Schneider
    • 1952 doubles with Grete Herber , mixed with Wolfgang Müller
    • 1953 doubles with Grete Herber, mixed with Heinz Reimann
    • 1954 singles, doubles with Grete Herber, mixed with Helmut Hanschmann
    • 1955 singles second place, doubles with Grete Herber, mixed with Helmut Hanschmann
    • 1956 double place second with Grete Herber, mixed with Helmut Hanschmann
    • 1957 double place second with Grete Herber
    • 1958 doubles with Grete Herber
    • 1959 double place second with Grete Herber
  • GDR team championships
    • 1953/54 BSG unit East Erfurt
    • 1954/55 BSG unit East Erfurt
  • National German championships
    • 1951 single place third
    • 1953 doubles with Grete Herber, mixed second place with Helmut Hanschmann
    • 1954 double place three with Grete Herber, mixed place two with Helmut Hanschmann

Private

Hanft married in the mid-1950s and then appeared under the name Hannelore Gießler .

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
GER  World Championship  1955  Utrecht  NED   last 64  last 32  last 32  16 

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 , page 104
  2. ↑ 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 , page 153
  3. ↑ Tischtennis Magazin, Official Organ of the Table Tennis Association Lower Saxony 2006, Issue 7–8, page 7
  4. ↑ Hannelore Hanft Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 7, 2011)

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personal data
SURNAME Hemp, Hannelore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giessler, Hannelore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH 1932