Harald Richter (badminton)

Harald Richter in the Tröbitzer Team 1973, from left: Klaus-Peter Färber, Harald Richter, Monika Thiere, Annemarie Richter, Roland Riese, Joachim Schimpke

Harald Richter (born February 15, 1945 in Chemnitz ) is a former German badminton player .

He experienced the entire 33 years of existence of the Badminton Association of the GDR as an active player. He won his first GDR title at the junior team championship in 1962 with engine IFA Karl-Marx-Stadt . In 1963 he won a medal in all three individual disciplines at the GDR Junior Championships. This was followed by bronze and silver among the adults in the Motor IFA team. After winning silver medals and several bronze medals in mixed and singles, he moved in 1972 together with Annemarie Richter (with whom he is neither related nor related by marriage) to eleven-time GDR team champion, activist Tröbitz . For the club there both won another bronze medal in mixed. Harald Richter as a regular player in the first Tröbitzer team was involved in six second and five third places for the team. At the last age group championships in the GDR, he won gold again in men's doubles.

Harald Richter still lives in Chemnitz today.

Sporting successes

event	season	discipline	space	winner
GDR team championship youth	1961/1962	team	1	Motor IFA Karl-Marx-Stadt ( Joachim Schimpke , Harald Richter, Annemarie Bendig , Klaus Renner, Elke Lein)
GDR individual championship age group 16/17	1962/1963	Men's doubles	2	Klaus Renner / Harald Richter (Motor IFA Karl-Marx-Stadt)
GDR individual championship age group 16/17	1962/1963	Mixed	3	Harald Richter / Elke Lein (Motor IFA Karl-Marx-Stadt)
GDR individual championship age group 16/17	1962/1963	Men's singles	3	Harald Richter (Motor IFA Karl-Marx-Stadt)
GDR team championship	1963/1964	team	3	Motor IFA Karl-Marx-Stadt ( Joachim Schimpke , Jörg Richter, Peter Richter, Harald Richter, Eidam, A. Lein, Elke Lein, Doris Hampel, Annemarie Richter )
GDR team championship	1964/1965	team	2	Motor IFA Karl-Marx-Stadt ( Joachim Schimpke , Harald Richter, Jörg Richter, Böhme, Wolf-Dieter Tränkner, Klaus Eidam, Annemarie Richter , A. Lein, Elke Lein)
GDR individual championship	1967/1968	Men's singles	3	Harald Richter (Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt)
GDR individual championship	1969/1970	Mixed	3	Harald Richter / Annemarie Richter (Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt)
GDR individual championship	1969/1970	Men's singles	3	Harald Richter (Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt)
GDR individual championship	1970/1971	Mixed	2	Harald Richter / Annemarie Richter (Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt)
GDR individual championship	1971/1972	Mixed	3	Harald Richter / Annemarie Richter (Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt)
GDR individual championship	1972/1973	Mixed	3	Harald Richter / Annemarie Richter ( Progress Tröbitz )
GDR team championship	1973/1974	team	2	Progress Tröbitz (Harald Richter, Joachim Schimpke , Klaus-Peter Färber , Roland Riese , Werner Michael , Monika Thiere , Annemarie Richter )
GDR team championship	1974/1975	team	2	Progress Tröbitz (Klaus Katzor, Joachim Schimpke , Roland Riese , Klaus Skobowsky , Harald Richter, Rena Scheithauer , Christine Ober , Carmen Ober )
GDR team championship	1976/1977	team	2	Progress Tröbitz ( Frank-Thomas Seyfarth , Joachim Schimpke , Roland Riese , Klaus Skobowsky , Harald Richter, Christine Ober , Carmen Ober )
GDR team championship	1977/1978	team	2	Progress Tröbitz ( Frank-Thomas Seyfarth , Joachim Schimpke , Roland Riese , Klaus Skobowsky , Harald Richter, Christine Ober , Carmen Ober )
GDR team championship	1978/1979	team	2	Progress Tröbitz ( Frank-Thomas Seyfarth , Joachim Schimpke , Roland Riese , Klaus Skobowsky , Harald Richter, Christine Ober , Carmen Ober )
GDR team championship	1979/1980	team	2	Progress Tröbitz ( Frank-Thomas Seyfarth , Joachim Schimpke , Roland Riese , Klaus Skobowsky , Harald Richter, Christine Ober , Carmen Ober )
GDR team championship	1980/1981	team	3	Progress Tröbitz ( Frank-Thomas Seyfarth , Joachim Schimpke , Roland Riese , Klaus Skobowsky , Harald Richter, Christine Ober , Carmen Ober )
GDR team championship	1981/1982	team	3	Progress Tröbitz ( Frank-Thomas Seyfarth , Joachim Schimpke , Roland Riese , Klaus Skobowsky , Harald Richter, Christine Ober , Carmen Ober )
GDR team championship	1982/1983	team	3	Progress Tröbitz ( Joachim Schimpke , Roland Riese , Frank-Thomas Seyfarth , Thomas Dittrich , Harald Richter, René Born, Christine Ober , Carmen Ober , Annemarie Seemann , Petra Schubert )
GDR team championship	1983/1984	team	3	Progress Tröbitz ( Frank-Thomas Seyfarth , Jens Scheithauer , Joachim Schimpke , Thomas Dittrich , Klaus Skobowsky , Harald Richter, Jörg Deutschmann , Petra Schubert , Andrea Pohling )
GDR senior championship age group I.	1984/1985	Men's doubles	3	Joachim Schimpke / Harald Richter ( Progress Tröbitz )
GDR team championship	1984/1985	team	3	Progress Tröbitz ( Frank-Thomas Seyfarth , Jens Scheithauer , Joachim Schimpke , Thomas Dittrich , Harald Richter, Petra Schubert , Christine Maertin )
GDR senior championship age group I.	1985/1986	Men's doubles	1	Harald Richter / Joachim Schimpke ( Progress Tröbitz )
GDR senior championship age group II	1987/1988	Mixed	2	Harald Richter / Annemarie Richter (Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt)
GDR senior championship age group II	1988/1989	Men's singles	3	Harald Richter (Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt)
GDR senior championship age group II	1988/1989	Men's doubles	3	Harald Richter / Bernd Böhme (Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt)
GDR senior championship age group II	1988/1989	Mixed	1	Harald Richter / Annemarie Richter ( BSG Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt )
GDR senior championship age group II	1989/1990	Men's singles	1	Harald Richter (Wismut Chemnitz)
GDR senior championship age group II	1989/1990	Men's doubles	2	Bernd Böhme / Harald Richter (Wismut Chemnitz)

credentials

• René Born: 1957–1997. 40 years of badminton in Tröbitz - The history of BV Tröbitz eV , self-published (1997), 84 pages. ( Online version )
• René Born: Badminton in Tröbitz (Part 1 - The beginnings, the medal winners, the statistics) , self-published (2007), 455 pages ( online version )