Heinz Schlueter (table tennis player)

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Heinz Schlueter (born October 2, 1948 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian table tennis player . He was one of the best players in Austria in the 1970s.

Austria

Schlüter is multiple Austrian champion. In 1969 and 1972 he won the national state championship in singles, plus four titles in doubles: 1967 with Conrad Köllner , 1968, 1970, 1972 each with Wolfgang Petrzalka. With the ASKÖ Strassenbahn Wien club he was Austrian team champion in 1967, 1968 and 1969. In a team fight in 1971 he won a victory over the then world champion Tibor Klampár .

From 1967 to 1977 he was nominated for all six world championships. He completed more than 140 international matches for Austria.

Germany

In 1972 Schlueter began to play in the German Bundesliga . He is the first foreigner in the Bundesliga (together with his compatriot Rudolf Weinmann ). He was active at Hertha BSC until 1974 , after which he moved to SSV Reutlingen 05 . With this club he won the DTTB Cup in 1976 and 1977 and the German Team Championship in 1977. In 1976 the club reached the final of the European Exhibition Cities Cup . In 1977 he finished second in doubles at the German championships together with Peter Stellwag .

In the 1980s Schlüter played again in Austria, but returned to Reutlingen in 2001 and has been active here (in the association league) ever since.

Private

Schlüter is a business graduate. In mid-1975 he married Ursula Becker.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
AUT World Championship 1977 Birmingham CLOSELY Scratched Scratched no participants 24
AUT World Championship 1975 Calcutta IND last 64 last 32 no participants 16
AUT World Championship 1973 Sarajevo YUG last 64 last 64 no participants 13
AUT World Championship 1971 Nagoya JPN last 128 last 64 last 64 13
AUT World Championship 1969 Munich FRG last 64 last 64 last 32 16
AUT World Championship 1967 Stockholm SWE last 128 last 32 no participants 21st

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Austrian national champions team (accessed on January 16, 2016)
  2. ↑ Austrian Table Tennis Show 1971/03 page 51 (accessed on March 15, 2011; PDF; 3.6 MB)
  3. ↑ By 1976 Schlüter had played 140 international matches. - DTS magazine , 1976/19 page 7
  4. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2014/6 pages 20–21
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1974/14 page 23
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1976/17 page 7
  7. ↑ DTS magazine , 1975/16 page 23
  8. ↑ Heinz Schlüter (table tennis player) Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 14, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Schlueter, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna