Josefine Kolbe

Josefine "Pepa" Kolbe was an Austrian table tennis player . She won two bronze medals at the 1930 World Championships .

Career

Josefine Kolbe played for Badener AC . In 1929 she took part in the World Championships in Budapest. In the singles she reached the quarterfinals after defeating the Englishwoman Joan Ingram , in which she was defeated by the Hungarian Anna Sipos . In doubles with Anastasia Flussmann, she started directly in the quarter-finals due to the small number of participants. Here she lost to Mária Mednyánszky / Anna Sipos from Hungary. In mixed with Erwin Kohn, she was defeated by the later Hungarian world champions István Kelen / Anna Sipos.

Josefine Kolbe was more successful at the 1930 World Championships in Berlin, where she won bronze in singles and doubles. In the individual she defeated Ingeborg Carnatz (Germany) and Marie Masakova (Czechoslovakia), but lost in the semifinals to the eventual world champion Mária Mednyánszky (Hungary). In doubles with Etta Neumann she lost again in the semifinals against the Hungarians Mária Mednyánszky / Anna Sipos .

In 1931 Kolbe reached the final of the Austrian National Championships , in which she did not play for health reasons.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
AUT	World Championship	1930	Berlin	FRG	Semifinals	Semifinals	last 16
AUT	World Championship	1929	Budapest	HUN	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	last 16

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ÖTTZ - Die Österreichische Tischtennis Zeitung, issue 45, March / April 2002, page 20; also OETTV manual, edition 07/2013, page 110 online (accessed on March 17, 2015)
2. ↑ WM 1929, individual competition ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 17, 2015)  
3. ↑ WM 1929, double competition ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 17, 2015)  
4. ↑ WM 1929, mixed competition ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 17, 2015)  
5. ↑ WM 1930, individual competition ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - the name is wrongly given here as "Kolten" (accessed on March 17, 2015)  
6. ↑ Tennis & Golf magazine, sole official organ of the German Tennis Association EV, 1930/4 p. 117
7. ↑ WM 1930, double competition ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 17, 2015)  
8. ↑ ^{a b} Other sources incorrectly report that Josefine Kolbe finished second at the 1939 World Cup together with Helly Reitzer . NOE Tischtennis-Nachrichten 1983/09 page 26 (accessed on March 17, 2015)
9. ↑ Josefine Kolbe Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on March 17, 2015)