Thomas Kreidel

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Thomas Kreidel (* 1964 in Taunusstein ) is a German table tennis and tennis player in a wheelchair. He won gold several times at World Disabled Championships and Paralympics.

pedestrian

Even before his disability, Kreidel was considered a table tennis talent with a future. In 1978 he was ranked number 1 in the Hessian school ranking. That year he won bronze at the German school championships. In 1981 he reached the quarter-finals at the German youth championships. He belonged to the TV Bierstadt association.

At the age of 19 he was paraplegic as a result of a car accident. From now on he was dependent on the wheelchair.

Disabled sports

Kreidel continued to play table tennis, now he competed in class 4 in a wheelchair. Three months after his accident, he won bronze at the German TT Championships for wheelchair users. From 1986 to 1999 he won all 14 German individual championships. With RSG Koblenz he was German team champion in 1991/92. Later he moved to RSC Frankfurt , where he competed in the wheelchair Bundesliga together with Wolf Meißner. In February 2013 he joined TV Leiselheim , where he plays in a non-disabled team in the association league.

Several times he took part in the world championships for the disabled. Here he was individual world champion in 1986, 1990, 1992 and 1996. At the Paralympics in 1984, 1988 and 1992 he was gold medalist in individual and with the team, in 1996 only in individual. He won several titles at European championships.

For his successes, Kreidel was awarded the sports badge of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1992 by Prime Minister Rudolf Scharping . In addition, he received the silver bay leaf on June 23, 1993.

tennis

Kreidel also played wheelchair tennis successfully . Here he was German champion in damage class 4 in 1988, 1989 and 1990.

literature

  • Gerlinde Glatzer-Bittner : Portrait Thomas Kreidel: Not only we have problems ... , DTS magazine , 1991/6 pp. 30–32
  • Gert Adolphi: Thomas Kreidel plays for TV Leiselheim , magazine tischtennis , 2013/3 regional Südwest p. 1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1981/23 p. 16
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1992/4 p. 39
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1992/10 p. 11
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/10 p. 20
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1992/5 dts regional / Südwest p. 15
  6. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V., VIBSS: The Federal President and his duties in the field of sport: ... on June 23, 1993, Federal President von Weizsäcker awarded disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the Olympic and Paralympic Games 1992, with the silver laurel leaf ...
personal data
SURNAME Kreidel, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wheelchair table tennis and tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Taunusstein