Hannelore sleep
Hannelore Schlaf , b. Hannelore Imlau , also Hanne Schlaf , (born December 27, 1930 in Lübeck , † March 28, 1985 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German table tennis player and official. In the 1950s she was one of the strongest German table tennis players. Later she took on many functions in the functionary area.
Career
At the age of nine, Hannelore Schlaf contracted polio. Nevertheless, she first started with handball and at the age of 19 with table tennis and joined the LSV Gut-Heil Lübeck club. When she won the district championship, she brought Jupp Schlaf to VfB Lübeck .
Hannelore Schlaf was a defender. She took part in five table tennis world championships and two European championships. She won the German championship three times in singles, four times in doubles and twice in mixed. She won other championship titles with her team Eintracht Frankfurt . In the German ranking list she was led from 1954 to 1957 and again in first place in 1959. Between 1954 and 1960 she took part in 93 international matches.
In 1960 she suffered such a severe meniscus injury at the national ranking tournament in Neumünster that she had to end her active career. After that, she continued to volunteer for table tennis. From 1961 to 1981 she held the post of ladies' warden of the German Table Tennis Association (her successor was Ella Lauer ). At the European Championships in 1962, 1968 and 1972, she looked after the German women's team as a non-playing captain . For these activities she was honored by the DTTB in 1973 with the DTTB Gold medal , and in 1981 she was made an honorary member of the DTTB. On October 5 of the same year, Federal President Karl Carstens awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.
In 1954 she married the table tennis player and functionary Jupp Schlaf . In 1985 she died after a serious illness.
Sporting successes
- Participation in 5 world championships
- 1953 in Bucharest: 9th place with women's team
- 1954 at Wembley: 13th place with women's team
- 1955 in Utrecht: Round of 16 in doubles (with Uschi Fiedler ), 16th place with women's team
- 1957 in Stockholm: quarter-finals in doubles, 13th place with women's team (with Uschi Fiedler)
- 1959 in Dortmund: 10th place with women's team
- Participation in European championships
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National German championships
- 1953 in Herford: 3rd place doubles (with Ursula Paulsen), 3rd place mixed (with Heinz Schneider )
- 1954 in Berlin: 1st place doubles (with Edith Schmidt )
- 1955 in Osnabrück: 1st place singles, 2nd place doubles (with Edith Schmidt )
- 1956 in Dortmund: 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Uschi Fiedler ), 1st place mixed (with Conny Freundorfer )
- 1957 in Berlin: 2nd place singles, 1st place doubles (with Uschi Fiedler )
- 1958 in Neumünster: 2nd place singles, 1st place doubles (with Uschi Fiedler )
- 1959 in Donaueschingen: 1st place singles, 4th place doubles (with Ursula Paulsen-Matthias ), 1st place mixed (with Wolf Berger )
- 1960 in Essen: 4th place individual, 1st place mixed (with Dieter Michalek )
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National ranking tournaments
- 1957 in Mönchengladbach: 2nd place
- 1959 in Berlin: 1st place
- International championships
- 1955 Kiel: 3rd place singles, 2nd place doubles (with Uschi Fiedler ), 2nd place mixed (with Conny Freundorfer )
- 1956 Netherlands: quarter-finals singles
- 1958 Austria: 2nd place mixed
- 1958 Scandinavia: 2nd place doubles
- 1959 Netherlands: 2nd place doubles
- German team championship with Eintracht Frankfurt
- 1956–1959: 1st place
- German cup championships
- 1959 in Duisburg: 1st place with Eintracht Frankfurt
- societies
- LSV Gut-Heil
- until 1956: VfB Lübeck
- from 1956: Eintracht Frankfurt
Results from the ITTF database
Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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FRG | World Championship | 1959 | Dortmund | FRG | last 128 | last 32 | last 32 | 10 |
GER | World Championship | 1957 | Stockholm | SWE | last 128 | Quarter finals | last 32 | 14th |
GER | World Championship | 1955 | Utrecht | NED | last 128 | last 16 | last 128 | 16 |
GER | World Championship | 1954 | Wembley | CLOSELY | last 128 | last 32 | last 128 | 9 |
GER | World Championship | 1953 | Bucharest | ROU | last 32 | last 32 | last 32 | 9 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1970/18 edition Süd-West page 3
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1981/13 page 3
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1981/19 page 10
- ↑ ITTF statistics ( memento from January 26, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on April 8, 2019)
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Haase : Never took a rest , DTS magazine , 1985/5 page 46
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Sleep, Hannelore |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Imlau, Hannelore (maiden name); Sleep, Hanne |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German table tennis player and official |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1930 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 1985 |
Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |