Mihaela Șteff

Mihaela Ioana Șteff (born November 8, 1978 in Bistrița , Bistrița-Năsăud district ) is a former Romanian table tennis player . She won the European Championship several times .

Career

Șteff is left-handed. She started playing table tennis at the age of nine. She was promoted by the coach Gheorghe Bogza , who also looked after well-known players such as Călin Creangă and Adrian Crişan . She won the national Romanian championships six times, in 1994 in doubles with Antonela Manac, in 1996 in singles, doubles (with Antonela Manac) and mixed (with Andrei Filimon ), in 1997 in singles and in 2002 in mixed with Adrian Crişan.

In 1997 she moved from the Bistrița club to the German Bundesliga to the Galaxis Lübeck team , two years later to TuS Bad Driburg and finally in 2002 to Müllermilch Langweid . In 2004 she left Germany for Italy to the Sterilgarda TT Castelgoffredo. With the team from Lübeck she won the European Cup in 1998 .

She was successful at the European Youth Championships, where she won gold once in singles, five times in doubles and once in mixed gold. At the European Championships for adults , she reached the individual final in 2000 and 2005 . Together with Tamara Boroš , she became European champions in doubles in 2002, 2003 and 2005.

From 1995 to 2006 she took part in nine world championships for Romania . In 2000 and 2004 she qualified for the Olympic Games, where she reached the quarter-finals in both singles and doubles.

In autumn 2005 the Romanian national players Mihaela Șteff, Otilia Bădescu and Adriana Năstase-Simion-Zamfir refused to sign the contracts submitted by the Romanian table tennis association, according to which they forego 10% of the income from the ITTF Pro Tour in favor of the association should. They were then excluded from the national team and no longer considered for the 2007 European Table Tennis Championships .

Private

Șteff is the daughter of a teacher couple. She has four younger sisters and two younger brothers. On September 5, 2005 she married Marius Meruțiu and then appeared under the name Șteff-Meruțiu . In May 2009 she became the mother of a son.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
ROU	Balkan Championship	1996	Vranje	YUG	gold			1
ROU	Balkan Championship	1993	Constanza	ROU				1
ROU	European Championship	2005	Aarhus	THE	silver	gold		1
ROU	European Championship	2003	Courmayeur	ITA	last 16	gold
ROU	European Championship	2002	Zagreb	HRV	Quarter finals	gold		1
ROU	European Championship	2000	Bremen	GER	silver
ROU	European Championship	1998	Eindhoven	NED		Semifinals
ROU	European Championship	1996	Bratislava	SVK	last 16
ROU	European Youth Championship (Cadets)	1993	Ljubljana	SVN	gold	gold
ROU	European Youth Championship (Cadets)	1992	Topolcany	TCH		gold		1
ROU	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1996	Frydek-Mistek	CZE		gold
ROU	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1995	The hague	NED		gold
ROU	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1994	Paris	FRA		gold	gold	1
ROU	EURO TOP12	2007	Arezzo	ITA	3rd place
ROU	EURO TOP12	2006	Copenhagen	THE	3rd place
ROU	EURO TOP12	2005	Rennes	FRA	3rd place
ROU	EURO TOP12	2004	Frankfurt	GER	5th place
ROU	EURO TOP12	2003	Saarbrücken	GER	5th place
ROU	EURO TOP12	2002	Rotterdam	NED	5
ROU	EURO TOP12	2001	catfish	AUT	5
ROU	EURO TOP12	2000	Alassio	ITA	2
ROU	Olympic games	2004	Athens	GRE	last 32	last 32
ROU	Olympic games	2000	Sydney	OUT	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
ROU	Pro tour	2007	Velenje	SVN	last 64
ROU	Pro tour	2006	Warsaw	POLE	last 32
ROU	Pro tour	2006	Bayreuth	GER	last 32
ROU	Pro tour	2006	Kuwait City	KUW	Quarter finals	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	2006	Doha	QAT	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	2006	Velenje	SVN	Quarter finals
ROU	Pro tour	2005	Gothenburg	SWE	last 64
ROU	Pro tour	2005	Magdeburg	GER	Quarter finals
ROU	Pro tour	2005	Doha	QAT	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
ROU	Pro tour	2005	Zagreb	HRV	last 32	Quarter finals
ROU	Pro tour	2004	catfish	AUT	last 64	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	2004	Leipzig	GER	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	2004	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	Semifinals	Semifinals
ROU	Pro tour	2003	Malmo	SWE	Quarter finals
ROU	Pro tour	2003	Bremen	GER	last 64
ROU	Pro tour	2003	Kobe	JPN	last 32
ROU	Pro tour	2003	Rio	BRA	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	2003	Croatia	HRV	Quarter finals	Semifinals
ROU	Pro tour	2002	Farum	THE	Quarter finals	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	2002	Warsaw	POLE	Quarter finals	Semifinals
ROU	Pro tour	2002	Eindhoven	NED	last 16	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	2002	Magdeburg	GER	last 32	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	2002	Kobe	JPN	silver
ROU	Pro tour	2002	Courmayeur	ITA	Semifinals	Semifinals
ROU	Pro tour	2002	catfish	AUT	last 16	Semifinals
ROU	Pro tour	2001	Rotterdam	NED	last 16	Quarter finals
ROU	Pro tour	2001	Bayreuth	GER	last 32	silver
ROU	Pro tour	2001	Zagreb	HRV	Semifinals	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	2000	Umeå	SWE	Quarter finals	Semifinals
ROU	Pro tour	2000	Warsaw	POLE	Semifinals	silver
ROU	Pro tour	2000	Toulouse	FRA	gold	gold
ROU	Pro tour	2000	Fort Lauderdale	United States	last 16	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	1999	Karlskrona	SWE	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	1999	Lievin	FRA	last 32
ROU	Pro tour	1999	Linz / Wels	AUT	last 32	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	1999	Bremen	GER	last 16	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	1999	Kobe City	JPN	last 32	Rd 1
ROU	Pro tour	1999	Zagreb	HRV	last 16	Quarter finals
ROU	Pro tour	1999	Hopton-on-Sea	CLOSELY	Semifinals
ROU	Pro tour	1998	Sundsvall	SWE	last 16	Rd 1
ROU	Pro tour	1998	Courmayeur	ITA	last 32	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	1998	Zagreb	HRV	Quarter finals	Semifinals
ROU	Pro tour	1997	Squid	SWE	last 32	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	1997	Linz	AUT		Quarter finals
ROU	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2002	Stockholm	SWE	last 16
ROU	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2000	Kobe City	JPN	last 16
ROU	World Championship	2006	Bremen	GER				17th
ROU	World Championship	2005	Shanghai	CHN	last 32
ROU	World Championship	2004	Doha	QAT				5
ROU	World Championship	2003	Paris	FRA	last 32	last 16
ROU	World Championship	2001	Osaka	JPN	Quarter finals	last 16	last 16	5
ROU	World Championship	2000	Kuala Lumpur	MAS				3-4
ROU	World Championship	1999	Eindhoven	NED	last 16	last 32	last 64
ROU	World Championship	1997	Manchester	CLOSELY	last 64	last 32	last 64	7th
ROU	World Championship	1995	Tianjin	CHN	last 64	last 64	last 64	4th
ROU	World cup	2004	Hangzhou	CHN	9-12. space
ROU	World cup	2003	Hong Kong	HKG	4th Place
ROU	World cup	2002	Singapore	SIN	5-8. space
ROU	World cup	2001	Wuhu	CHN	3

literature

• Rahul Nelson: Mihaela Steff - I'll keep a little to myself , DTS magazine , 2001/12 pp. 40–42

Web links

• Mihaela Șteff in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Mihaela Șteff Article about Mihaela Șteff on the website of the table tennis world association ittf.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Journal DTS , 1997/8 pp. 14-15.
2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1999/6 p. 19.
3. ↑ Mihaela Steff demisioneaza prin e-mail - Cotidianul of September 26, 2005 ( memento of March 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 4, 2010 (Romanian).
4. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Cotidianul of March 22, 2007 , accessed on December 4, 2010 (Romanian).
5. ↑ Gazeta Sporturilor, July 17, 2009 , accessed December 3, 2010 (Romanian).
6. ↑ ITTF database (accessed April 27, 2019)