Karin Suter-Erath

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Karin Suter-Erath Tennis player
Nation: SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Birthday: November 24, 1970
Playing hand: Right
singles
Career record: 200: 119
Highest ranking: 6 (February 13, 2006)
Current placement: 69
Double
Career record: 160: 81
Highest ranking: 6 (November 17, 2003)
Current placement: 86
Paralympic Games
Paralympic Medals:
bronze 2004 Athens Double
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Karin Suter-Erath (born November 24, 1970 as Karin Erath in Basel ) is a former Swiss handball player and wheelchair tennis player and an active player in Parabadminton . She lives in Wettingen , in the canton of Aargau .

Athletic career

Karin Erath was an avid soccer player as a child, but turned to handball at the age of 13 . Between the ages of 17 and 27, she was mainly active as a competitive athlete in Basel, but also in Madrid and Lucerne. In the Swiss U20 women’s national team, Erath was used six times and scored 16 goals, in the women’s national handball team she made seven international appearances in 1991 and 1992 and scored two goals. During this time she completed a sports degree and began to work as a sports teacher at a high school in Basel. Her first sports career ended in early 1997 after an accident in which she suffered paraplegia .

During her rehabilitation at the Swiss Paraplegic Center in Nottwil , she met Thomas Suter, whom she married in 2002. It was through him that she came to wheelchair tennis . Suter-Erath took in 2004 in Athens for the first time at the Paralympic Games in part. In the individual, she was eliminated in the first round against Sonja Peters . In the doubles competition, she and partner Sandra Kalt reached the semifinals, which they lost to Sakhorn Khanthasit and Chanungarn Techamaneewat . They then won the game for third place and the bronze medal against Chiyoko Ohmae and Mie Yaosa . At the 2008 Games in Beijing , Karin Suter-Erath only appeared in singles and was eliminated again in the first round. In the world rankings, she achieved her best placings with sixth place in singles on February 13, 2006 and also sixth in doubles on November 17, 2003.

Before and after her career in wheelchair tennis, Suter-Erath occasionally played badminton or parabadminton to compensate . It soon turned into a competitive sport too. She competed for the first time at the 2010 European Badminton Championships for the disabled in Filzbach , Switzerland . At the European level, she was the dominant player in parabadminton in the 2010s. In 2012 in Dortmund she won gold in singles and mixed with Thomas Wandschneider and silver in doubles with Sonja Häsler . In 2014 in Murcia and 2016 in Beek she won gold in singles, doubles and mixed EM gold, in 2018 in Rodez with Cynthia Mathez gold in doubles and silver in singles. At the Badminton World Championships for the disabled , Suter-Erath was less successful because of the dominance of Asian players. In 2011 she won silver in singles in Guatemala City , gold in doubles with Sonja Häsler, and bronze in mixed with Avni Kertmen . 2013 in Dortmund followed gold in singles, silver with the Thai Sujirat Pookkhum in doubles, and bronze with Thomas Wandschneider in mixed. In 2015 in Stoke Mandeville and 2019 in Basel she won bronze medals in individual. Suter-Erath wants to take part in the Summer Paralympics 2020 in Tokyo , which for the first time have Parabadminton in the program.

Awards

  • Basel Sportswoman of the Year 2008, 2015 and 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hall of Fame Women. In: handball.ch. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Karin Suter-Erath, Para Badminton, Wheelchair Tennis. In: swissparalympic.ch. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Barbara Scherer: This wetting girl plays her way on the podium in quick succession. In: limmatwelle.ch. December 12, 2018, accessed February 10, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Your sport statistics, one place. In: bwfpara.tournamentsoftware.com. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Karin Suter-Erath: The world championship medal dream is still alive at 48. In: SRF . August 17, 2019, accessed February 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Suter-Erath, Karin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erath, Karin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss handball player, wheelchair tennis player and para-badminton player
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel , Switzerland