Hilde Kraska
Hilde Kraska (* August 24, 1921 as Hilde Rahe ; † December 10, 2018 ) was a German table tennis player from the 1950s. She won two titles at German championships.
Career
Kraska played at FC Schalke 04 until 1952 and then moved to TTC Bottrop-own. At the West German Championships of the WTTV she won the title eight times, in 1955 in singles, 1952 to 1956 in doubles with Hilde Kazmierczak-Gröber and in mixed 1951 with Severin and 1954 with Bernie Vossebein .
1954 Kraska won the national German championship in mixed with Bernie Vossebein. A year later she became German champion in doubles with Hilde Kazmierczak-Gröber, in singles she was second. She reached the semi-finals in 1951 in doubles with Hilde Kazmierczak, in 1953 in mixed with Bernie Vossebein, in 1955 in mixed with Karl-Heinz Harmansa and in 1956 in doubles with Hilde Kazmierczak-Gröber.
In 1955 she was nominated for the world championship . Here she defeated Margita Covic (Yugoslavia) in the singles and was defeated by Fujie Eguchi (Japan). In doubles with Annegret Thöle , she was eliminated in the first round against the English twins Diane Rowe / Rosalind Rowe . She also lost in the mixed with Leopold Holusek in the first round against the Austrians Karl Wegrath / Friederike Lauber . With the German team she came in 16th.
In total, Kraska played 16 international matches. In 1955 she was ranked fourth in the German ranking.
Results from the ITTF database
Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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GER | World Championship | 1955 | Utrecht | NED | last 64 | last 32 | last 128 | 16 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituaries of Hilde Kraska | NW mourning. Accessed April 9, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Anniversary book 75 years of WTTV , p. 24
- ↑ Table tennis magazine, official organ of the Lower Saxony table tennis association 2006/9 p. 3
- ↑ ITTF statistics ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 11, 2011)
Web links
- German Championships (PDF; 669 kB)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kraska, Hilde |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rahe, Hilde (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German table tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1921 |
DATE OF DEATH | December 10, 2018 |