Sigrun Kunz

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National team of the GDR
men from right to left: Günter Matthias , Heinz Schneider (hidden), Helmut Hanschmann , Hans Täger and possibly the coach.
Ladies from left to right: Christa Bannach , Doris Kalweit , Ute Mittelstädt , Sigrun Kunz , Isolde Woschee .

Sigrun Kunz (born June 11, 1939 in Chemnitz ) is a German table tennis player . In the early 1960s she was one of the best players in the GDR.

National successes

She won nine titles at the national GDR championships. From 1960 to 1962 she was individual champion three times in a row. In doubles she won in 1959, 1960 and 1961 with Christa Bannach and in 1962 with Doris Kalweit . There are also two mixed titles, 1959 with Heinz Reimann and 1962 with Lothar Pleuse . She reached second place three times, in 1963 in singles behind Doris Kalweit, in 1966 in mixed with Wolfgang Schmidt and in 1967 in doubles with Ingrid Lemke.

Coming from the clubs Wismut Wilkau (since 1952) and later activist Zwickau, she was team champion of the GDR four times in a row with the Club SC Einheit Dresden from 1960 to 1963. She later moved to BSG Motor Dresden-Niedersedlitz, from which the BSG Sachsenwerk Dresden emerged.

International appearances

Sigrun Kunz completed a total of 15 international matches for the GDR between 1959 and 1963. She was nominated three times for participation in world championships: 1959 , 1961 and 1963 . In 1960 she played at the European Championship .

Private

Sigrun Kunz in the Rheinsberg table tennis club
Sigrun Kunz (second from left) in the Rheinsberg table tennis club in July 2019.

In the mid-1960s, Kunz married and then appeared under the name Sigrun Legler . On December 26, 1964, she became the mother of a girl. Today she lives in Rheinsberg. Here she has been running the table tennis club since 1991.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
GDR  European Championship  1960  Zagreb  YUG       Quarter finals   
GDR  World Championship  1963  Prague  TCH   last 32  last 32  last 128  5 
GDR  World Championship  1961  Beijing  CHN   last 32  last 32  last 32  7th 
GDR  World Championship  1959  Dortmund  FRG   last 16  last 64  last 128  10 

Web links

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  • 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 , page 214.
  • Magazine table tennis , 2009/7 regional north side 11
  • Günter Nostitz: Eulogy for his 80th birthday, table tennis magazine , 2099/8 Region 6, page 7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (unknown) GDR newspaper from March 1959 (published before March 27) Ticket: 2011040510006001
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1959/16 West issue p. 1
  3. ↑ http://www.tt-souvenir.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=59&Itemid=67
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1977/23 p. 19
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1965/2 West issue p. 15
  6. ↑ ITTF statistics (accessed on September 11, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Kunz, Sigrun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Legler, Sigrun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz