Monika Kneip

Monika Kneip (born September 6, 1952 in Wadgassen (Saarland)) was one of the best German table tennis players in the 1970s . She won the German championship in doubles.

youth

From 1961 Monika Kneip played table tennis in the TTC Ramsharde club . At German youth championships she came in second place in 1969 and 1970. In doubles she reached the final in 1968 (with Hannelore Wörtche), in the following two years she won the title here (1969 with Brigitte Scharmacher , 1970 with Sieglinde Prell ). In 1970 she won the mixed championship with Manfred Baum .

In 1970 she reached the final at the European Youth Championship in Teesside in doubles with Sigrid Hans, where they lost to the Hungarians Eszther Juhos / Henriette Lotaller (HUN).

Adults

In 1971 Kneip moved to VfL Osnabrück , and from 1973 to 1975 she competed for TSV Nord Harrislee. She has been playing for Weiß-Rot-Weiß Kleve since 1975 .

At the German championships she won second place four times: in 1970 behind Diane Schöler , in 1971 and 1972 behind Wiebke Hendriksen and in 1982 behind Ursula Hirschmüller-Kamizuru . In doubles, she won the championship title in 1978 with Wiebke Hendriksen, and lost five times in the final (1975 with Kirsten Krüger , 1976, 1979 and 1980 with Wiebke Hendriksen, 1983 with Sabine Bötcher). With Jochen Leiß , she became mixed champions in 1974 and 1977.

In 1977 and 1980 she took first place in the national ranking tournament DTTB-TOP-12 , in which she participated 16 times in a row.

In 1969 she was nominated for a world championship for the first time , but she only played in the individual competitions in Dortmund. Between 1972 and 1980 she made 18 international matches. At the world championships in 1973 , 1975 and 1979 it was also used in the women's team. For the 1977 World Cup she was only nominated as a replacement, but did not get a chance.

1974, 1976, 1978 and 1980 she was represented at European championships . Her greatest success was her third place in Prague in 1976 in doubles with Agnes Simon .

With Osnabrück she was German team champion in the 1972/73 season. She repeated this success in 1980 with WRW Kleve . German cup winner of the teams she was 1974 with Ramsharde and 1975 with Harrislee. In 1976 and 1979 she won the ETTU-Nancy-Evans-Cup (European trade fair cup) with Kleve . Today (January 2007) she plays with the second team from Kleve in the upper league.

Seniors

Monika Kneip was successful in many national and international senior tournaments. She won the over 40s doubles with Jutta Trapp at the Senior World Championships in Melbourne in 1994 , and she was runner-up in singles. At the 2006 World Cup in Bremen, she won silver in doubles over 50s with Kirsten Krüger-Trupkovic .

In 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2006 she won the German senior championship in singles. From 1994 to 1997 she won the doubles title four times in a row with her partner Rose Diebold , and in 2000 with Roswitha Beyerinck . In mixed (over 50) she won in 2011 with Manfred Nieswand .

In 2014 she became vice world champion in the 60+ class at the Senior World Championships in Auckland both in singles and doubles with Gerda Kux-Sieberath.

official

Monika Kneip was from 1997 to 2001 ladies' manager in the West German Table Tennis Association (WTTV) .

Private

Monika Kneip is a commercial clerk. In November 1976 she married Dieter Stumpe (* 1949), who later became the WTTV press manager, and then went on to work under the name of Kneip-Stumpe . In the early 1980s she played soccer in a women's team in Kleve, and later with the Concordia Goch club .

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
FRG	European Championship	1976	Prague	TCH		Semifinals
FRG	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1970	Teeside	CLOSELY		silver
FRG	World Championship	1979	Pyongyang	PRK	Agony	last 64	Agony	9
FRG	World Championship	1975	Calcutta	IND	last 64	last 32	last 32	10
FRG	World Championship	1973	Sarajevo	YUG	last 32	last 32	last 32	7th
FRG	World Championship	1969	Munich	FRG	last 64	Agony	last 64

swell

• Manfred Schäfer: A game for life. 75 years of DTTB. (1925-2000) . Published by the German Table Tennis Association. DTTB, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , pp. 154-169, 213.
• DTS magazine , 1977/5 p. 18.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1977/4 issue Süd-West p. 4.
2. ↑ MS: Senior World Championships in Auckland: Marianne Blasberg World Champion in singles / 18 medals for Germany ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article from May 17, 2014 on tischtennis.de (accessed May 17, 2014) 
3. ↑ West German Table Tennis Association - Boards and committees since 1947 (accessed on December 30, 2015; PDF; 470 kB)
4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1977/1 issue Süd-West p. 4.
5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1981/4 p. 78.
6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/11 p. 31.
7. ↑ Monika Kneip Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 10, 2011)