Manfred Ullrich

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Manfred Ullrich (born September 6, 1949 ) is a German table tennis player . He was one of the best players in the GDR in the 1970s and won a title at GDR championships twelve times.

Career

Ullrich began his career at the TSC Berlin club , whose table tennis department joined the BSG foreign trade in Berlin in 1968 . With the men's team he was from 1970 to 1980 with the exception of 1976 GDR champions.

In 1966 he had reached the quarter-finals with Wolfgang Vater at the European Youth Championships. In the same year he was East Berlin champion in singles by winning the final against Lothar Pleuse .

At the national championship of the GDR he won the doubles title with Norbert Drescher in 1974 and 1977 . He reached the final seven times in doubles, namely in 1968 with Wolfgang Stein , 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1982 with Norbert Drescher and in 1987 with Bernd Raue . In 1969 he finished second behind Wolfgang Viebig in the individual .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b DTS magazine , 1966/24 page 27
  2. ↑ Table tennis archive of Hans-Albert Meyer: GDR men's team championships (accessed on March 20, 2017)
  3. ↑ Table tennis archive of Hans-Albert Meyer: GDR individual championships (accessed on March 20, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Ullrich, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1949