Lothar Pleuse

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Lothar Pleuse (born June 4, 1936 in Berlin ) is a former table tennis player of the GDR . From the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s he was one of their top players. He was several times GDR champion and took part in six world championships .

Career

Pleuse did not come into contact with table tennis until he was 14. He joined the Ajax Neptun Berlin club and then Stern Kaulsdorf . He later moved to Motor Ostend , where the then leading GDR player Siegfried Facius (1915–1968) was his coach. Later Pleuse played for the clubs SC Motor Berlin , BSG Lok Erich Steinfurth Berlin , TSC Oberschöneweide and TSC Berlin . With SC Motor Berlin, he was GDR team champion in 1956 and 1957. At the end of the 1960s, Pleuse had to stop competitive sports for health reasons.

successes

Pleuse took part in the world championships in 1955 , 1957 , 1959 , 1961 , 1963 and 1965 . In 1961 the GDR team won against that of the FRG. Pleuse defeated Wolfgang Prandke and Martin Ness . In 1958, 1960, 1964 and 1966 he was nominated for the European table tennis championships . In 1964 he won bronze in a mixed with Doris Hovestädt . He played a total of 74 international matches for the GDR. In 1961 he became the international champion of Poland. In 1965 he retired from the national team.

Pleuse won the GDR championship in 1960 and 1965 in singles and in 1957, 1960, 1961 (each with Heinz Schneider ), 1963 (with Siegfried Lemke ) and 1965 (with Wolfgang Stein ) in doubles. Around 1965 he was ranked number 1 in the GDR rankings for several years.

In 1959 he was awarded the honorary title of Master of Sports .

Private

Pleuse is a carpenter by profession. He is married and has two sons.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
GDR  European Championship  1964  Malmo  SWE       Semifinals   
GDR  European Championship  1960  Zagreb  YUG     Quarter finals     
GDR  World Championship  1965  Ljubljana  YUG   last 128  last 32  last 64  15th 
GDR  World Championship  1963  Prague  TCH   last 64  last 32  last 32  9 
GDR  World Championship  1961  Beijing  CHN   last 128  last 32  last 64  4th 
GDR  World Championship  1959  Dortmund  FRG   last 32  last 128  last 32  17th 
GER  World Championship  1957  Stockholm  SWE   last 64  last 32  last 32   
GER  World Championship  1955  Utrecht  NED   Agony  Agony  last 64   

literature

  • Friedrich-Karl Brauns: Salut for two great table tennis players , DTS magazine , 2001/6 regional north p. 11–12

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b (unknown) GDR newspaper from March 1959 (published before March 27) Ticket: 2011040510006001
  2. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2005/5 p. 7; in DTS 1965/18 p. 5 there is talk of almost 100 international matches
  3. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2009/12 regional north p. 2
  4. ↑ Magazine DTS , Issue West, 1965/15 p 16
  5. ^ ITTF statistics (accessed on September 14, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Pleuse, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin