Jürgen Rebel

Jürgen Rebel (born July 17, 1963 in Darmstadt ) is a former German table tennis player . He was four times German single champion in the school and youth area and twice German master in mixed.

youth

Jürgen Rebel began table tennis at the age of 6 under the guidance of his father. He achieved his first successes at German school championships: in 1977 and 1978 he won the singles title, in 1976 and 1977 in doubles (1976 with Markus Fischer, 1977 with Jörg Budzisz) and in 1978 in mixed with Evelin Ogroske. At the national ranking tournament for schoolchildren he took first place in 1976 and 1978 and second place in 1977.

In 1979 he became German youth champion in singles and doubles (with Markus Fischer). A year later he defended the title in singles and won in mixed with Susanne Wenzel . From 1979 to 1981 he won three times in a row at the top 12 youth ranking tournament. There are also placements at international German championships, 1979 silver in mixed with Susanne Wenzel and gold in singles in 1981.

In 1979 and 1981 he won the European Mixed Championship with Susanne Wenzel.

The successes in the youth field raised hopes for a future high performer, which he could not fulfill.

Adults

Rebel won the national German championships in 1982 and 1985 with Susanne Wenzel . He reached fourth place in 1985, 1986, 1987 in singles and 1980 in doubles with Georg Böhm . In the 1988/89 season he was German team champion with ATSV Saarbrücken . In 1987 he was second in the European Cup with this club .

Between 1981 and 1988 he was used 40 times in international matches for the German national team. He made his debut in March 1981 in Náchod at the Europa League game against the CSSR, where he lost both of his singles. He was represented four times at world championships ( WM 1981 , WM 1983 , WM 1987 and WM 1989 only individual competitions), just as often at European championships (1982, 1986, 1988, 1990 only individual competitions). In 1988 he was represented at the Olympic Games in Seoul.

societies

• until 1976: DJK Ober-Roden
• 1976-1983: TTC Heusenstamm
• 1983–1986: TTC Grenzau
• 1986–1989: ATSV Saarbrücken
• 1989–1994: TSV Heilbronn-Sontheim
• 1994–1996: TTC Frickenhausen
• 1996–1997: SV Plüderhausen
• from 1997: TSV Sontheim

Private

Jürgen Rebel is married to his wife Heidi. He has a son Florian (* 1988).

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
FRG	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1981	Topolcany	TCH			gold
FRG	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1979	Roma	ITA	Semifinals		gold
FRG	Olympic games	1988	Seoul	COR	no participants	immediately excluded
FRG	World Championship	1989	Dortmund	FRG	Agony	last 64	last 64
FRG	World Championship	1987	New Delhi	IND	Agony	last 64	Agony	7th
FRG	World Championship	1983	Tokyo	JPN	last 128	last 64	last 64	15th
FRG	World Championship	1981	Novi Sad	YUG	last 128	last 16	last 64	13

swell

• Manfred Schäfer: A game for life. 75 years of DTTB. (1925-2000) . Published by the German Table Tennis Association. DTTB, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , pages 122-202, 218.
• Rahul Nelson: The climber who actually isn't , DTS magazine , 1985 / page 6

Web links

• Jürgen Rebel: Hope in the youth sector in Germany 20 years ago ( Memento from August 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 5, 2016)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1981/6 pp. 57-58
2. ↑ Jürgen Rebel Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 14, 2011)