Stephanie Grebe

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Stephanie Grebe Table tennis player
Stephanie Grebe
PTT Slovenia Open 2013
Nickname: Steffi
Nation: GermanyGermany Germany
Date of birth: September 24, 1987
Place of birth: Berlin , Germany
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Size: 1.56 cm
Weight: 43 kg
Best world ranking : 4 (September 12, 2016)
Last update of the infobox: September 13, 2016

Stephanie (Steffi) Grebe (born September 24, 1987 in Berlin ) is a German table tennis player in the Paralympic starting class TT 6 . She is currently fourth in the world rankings.

Life

Grebe was born without hands and without a right lower leg and first grew up in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg . She attended the Ludwig-Meyn-Gymnasium in Uetersen , where she was a student mentor and later passed her Abitur. Then she completed an apprenticeship at the employment agency . She is currently studying social economics in Hamburg with a focus on labor law.

Athletic career

She began to learn to play table tennis at the age of twelve while on vacation in Greece. As a 13-year-old she trained with the table tennis club 3B Berlin and at the same time in disabled sports and competed in German championships. After the student moved to Heidgraben , Grebe played in the first women's team in the state league at Moorreger SV. In disabled sports, she first started for the BSG Neumünster and later for the VSG Gelsenkirchen. Grebe currently plays for SV Siek.

Stephanie Grebe is right-handed and a shakehand / offensive player . When playing, she uses a special prosthetic arm with a table tennis bat . Her forehand rubber is a GEWO Stratos, for the backhand she uses a Butterfly Feint Long rubber.

She was a participant in the Summer Paralympics 2012 in London , as the only German participant, and in the Summer Paralympics 2016 in Rio de Janeiro . In 2012 at the Summer Paralympics in London she finished fourth in the battle for bronze against Yuliya Klymenko, while in 2016 she won the silver medal in the final against Sandra Paovic (Croatia) at the Summer Paralympics in Rio .

For winning this silver medal, she received the silver laurel leaf from Federal President Gauck on November 1, 2016.

Grebe also earned a double-digit number of gold and silver medals in top-class competitions in her career. She is currently fourth in the world rankings among table tennis players in TT 6, behind Russian Raisa Chebanika , Ukrainians Yuliya Klymenko and Antonina Khodzynska .

Honor

On March 24, 2014, Stephanie Grebe was awarded the sports badge of the state of Schleswig-Holstein for her services to sport .

Sporting successes

(Table tennis for people with disabilities)

  • Multiple German youth champion
  • German runner-up
  • German champion 2010
  • Bronze medal in the team at the 1st French Open in Nantes (France) 2010
  • Bronze medal in Split (Croatia) at the 2011 European Championships
  • Bronze medal in the team in Split (Croatia) at the European Championships 2011
  • Silver medal at the Czech Open in Ostrava (Czech Republic) 2011
  • Silver medal in the team at the Czech Open in Ostrava (Czech Republic) 2011
  • Silver medal in the team at the British Open in Sheffield (Great Britain) 2011
  • Bronze medal at the Bayreuth Open in Bayreuth (Germany) 2011
  • Bronze medal at the Slovakia Open in Piestany (Slovakia) 2011
  • Bronze medal at the Lignano Master Open in Lignano (Italy) 2011
  • Bronze medal in the team at the Hungary Open in Eger (Hungary) 2011
  • Gold medal in the team at the IWAS (International Wheelchair & Amputee Sports Federation) World Games in Sharjah (United Arab Emirates) 2011
  • Gold medal at the 2nd French Open in Nantes (France) 2012
  • Silver medal in the team at the 2nd French Open in Nantes (France) 2012
  • Bronze medal in the team at the table tennis world ranking tournament in Lasko (Slovenia) 2012
  • Silver medal in the table tennis world ranking tournament in Düsseldorf (BSNW Open) 2012
  • Silver medal in the team at the table tennis world ranking tournament in Lignano (Italy) 2012
  • Fourth place at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
  • Third place at the European Championships 2013 (individual discipline)
  • Silver medal at the 2014 World Championships (individual and team discipline)
  • Second place in the team at the 2015 European Championships
  • Gold medal at the Bayreuth Open 2016
  • Bronze medal Slovenian Open in Lasko 2016
  • Silver medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

swell

  • Hamburger Abendblatt dated December 6, 2010: Admiration and check for Steffi Grebe - the table tennis district association supports the Moorreger SV player who was born without hands and wants to compete in the 2012 Paralympics
  • Uetersener Nachrichten of August 9th, 2012: From Heidgraben to London - Paralympics: Table tennis player Stephanie Grebe (24) will fight for a medal from August 30th
  • Hamburger Abendblatt from August 22, 2012: Stephanie Grebe has a good chance of winning gold in London - The 24-year-old world-class table tennis player Stephanie Grebe from Heidgraben will fight for medals at the Paralympics in a few days

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release of the Federal President's Office of November 1, 2016 on the award of the Silver Laurel Leaf: ... On November 1, 2016, Federal President Gauck will award the German medal winners of the 2016 Olympic and Paralymic Games ... with the Silver Laurel Leaf .. .
  2. ↑ Carsten Maltzan, Lars Erik Bethge: Made a contribution to sport: Stephanie Grebe, Dr. Lars Koltermann and Günter Schöning were awarded the state's sports badge . In: www.schleswig-holstein.de . The Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein with the State Chancellery. March 24, 2014. Retrieved May 27, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Grebe, Stephanie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grebe, Steffi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin