Ruth Mertzig
Ruth Mertzig (* 1947 in Tröbitz , married Ruth Müller ) is a former German badminton player .
Career
In her birthplace Tröbitz, she learned to play badminton in the BSG activist Tröbitz . For this club she also achieved all of her sporting successes. In 1966 she first drew attention to herself when she won the mixed title at the GDR Junior Championships together with her club colleague Jürgen Bommel. With this achievement she recommended herself for the first team of the Tröbitzer Verein, which at that time was already six-time GDR team champion. In the years from 1967 to 1969 she was a regular player in the Niederlausitzer team and contributed significantly to Tröbitzer title wins seven, eight and nine. After that, Ruth Mertzig was quiet in the sporting field.
Ruth Mertzig, now married Müller, now lives in Doberlug-Kirchhain .
Sporting successes
event | season | discipline | space | Surname |
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GDR individual championship age group 16/17 | 1965/1966 | Mixed | 1 | Jürgen Bommel / Ruth Mertzig ( activist Tröbitz ) |
GDR team championship | 1966/1967 | team | 1 | Activist Tröbitz ( Gottfried Seemann , Joachim Schimpke , Erich Wilde , Klaus-Peter Färber , Klaus Katzor , Harry Deinert , Helfried Wunderlich , Gerhard Dietze , Ruth Mertzig, Rita Gerschner , Annemarie Fritzsche ) |
GDR team championship | 1967/1968 | team | 1 | Activist Tröbitz ( Gottfried Seemann , Joachim Schimpke , Erich Wilde , Klaus-Peter Färber , Klaus Katzor , Ruth Mertzig, Annemarie Seemann , Rita Gerschner ) |
GDR team championship | 1968/1969 | team | 1 | Activist Tröbitz ( Gottfried Seemann , Joachim Schimpke , Erich Wilde , Klaus-Peter Färber , Klaus Katzor , Roland Riese , Harry Deinert , Ruth Mertzig, Rita Gerschner , Annemarie Seemann , Angelika Seifert , Monika Thiere ) |
credentials
- René Born: 1957–1997. 40 years of badminton in Tröbitz - The history of BV Tröbitz eV , self-published (1997), 84 pages. ( Online version )
- René Born: Badminton in Tröbitz (Part 1 - The beginnings, the medal winners, the statistics) , self-published (2007), 455 pages ( online version )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Mertzig, Ruth |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Müller, Ruth |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German badminton player |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1947 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Trobitz |