Petra Stephan

Petra Stephan married Schmidt (born February 17, 1954 ) is a former German table tennis player . She won the GDR championship thirteen times.

Career

Stephan represented the GDR several times at European youth championships and won several titles. In 1966 she was European student champion in individual. Two years later she won the doubles title with Eva Löffler at the European Youth Championships , and silver in mixed with Norbert Drescher . In 1970 and 1972 she made it to the semi-finals in doubles.

At the GDR championships she won thirteen titles, four times in singles, five times in doubles and four times in mixed. She was also in the final fourteen times.

• 1968: Second in doubles with Elke Richter , second in mixed with Wolfgang Vater
• 1969: Victory in singles, second in doubles with Elke Richter , second in mixed with Heribert Zitzmann
• 1970: Second in doubles with Elke Richter
• 1971: Second in singles, second in doubles with Petra Pfleger
• 1972: Second in doubles with Margit Engelmann , second in mixed with Wolfgang Viebig
• 1973: Victory in singles, victory in doubles with Margit Engelmann , second in mixed with Wolfgang Viebig
• 1974: Second in singles, victory in doubles with Margit Engelmann , victory in mixed with Wolfgang Viebig
• 1975: Second in doubles with Margit Engelmann , victory in mixed with Wolfgang Viebig
• 1976: Victory in singles, victory in doubles with Margit Engelmann , second in mixed with Wolfgang Viebig
• 1977: Victory in singles, victory in doubles with Margit Engelmann , victory in mixed with Norbert Drescher
• 1978: Second in doubles with Margit Engelmann , victory in mixed with Norbert Drescher
• 1980: Victory in doubles with Karin Kromnik

With BSG Lokomotive Leipzig-Mitte, she was GDR team champion in 1976/77. In 1975 and 1976/77 she led the DTTV rankings.

In 1969 she was nominated for the world championship . Here she reached seventh place with the GDR team. In the singles she was eliminated in the first round against Asta Godrajtite (USSR). In doubles she was the most successful of all German women together with Asta Godrajtite (USSR). In the quarterfinals they lost to Hwan Hwan Choi / Jung Sook Choi from South Korea. Previously they had won against Patty Martinez / Wendy Hicks (USA), Buchholz / Prell and Toshiko Kowada / Yasuko Konno (Japan).

In 1976 she was awarded the DTTV Gold Badge of Honor for her achievements .

In 1980 she played in the association Aufbau Karl-Marx-Stadt, around 1988 with Chemie Leuna , in 2005 with LSV Mörtitz.

Private

Petra married Stephan in August 1977 and then performed under the name Petra Schmidt .

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
GDR	European Championship	1972	Rotterdam	NED	last 16	Quarter finals
GDR	European Championship	1970	Moscow	URS		Quarter finals
GDR	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1968	Leningrad	URS		gold	silver
GDR	World Championship	1969	Munich	FRG	Agony	Quarter finals	last 32	7th

Individual evidence

1. ↑ table tennis - bulletin of the German Table Tennis Association of the GDR, 1976/9 p. 12 + 1977/8 p. 12
2. ↑ table tennis - bulletin of the German Table Tennis Association of the GDR, 1976/5 p. 20
3. ^ "Table tennis" magazine - bulletin of the German Table Tennis Association of the GDR, ISSN  0138-1547 , 1988/10 p. 5
4. ↑ http://www.global.hs-mittweida.de/~sttv/gs/punktwertungen/PW%20Seniorinnen.pdf (accessed on April 30, 2011)
5. ^ "Tischtennis" magazine - newsletter of the German Table Tennis Association of the GDR, ISSN  0138-1547 , 1977/8 p. 6
6. ↑ Petra Stephan Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 14, 2011)

Web links

• Table tennis archive from Hans-Albert Meyer
• European Youth Championships (accessed January 7, 2016)