Hannelore sleep

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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
  • 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

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
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

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1970/18 edition Süd-West page 3
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1981/13 page 3
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1981/19 page 10
  4. ↑ ITTF statistics ( memento from January 26, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on April 8, 2019)

literature

personal data
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