Thomas Schröder (table tennis player)

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Thomas Schröder (born December 28, 1977 ) is a former German table tennis player . He was multiple European youth champion and took part in the 1996 European championship for adults.

youth

Thomas Schröder is a defender. He began his career at the top division TV Hude. From 1990 he enjoyed five years of training at the table tennis center in Heidelberg, among others under the trainer Charles Roesch . Schröder achieved his greatest successes at the European Youth Championships. In the cadet class he reached the doubles final in Granada in 1991 at the side of Thomas Theissmann, with the team he became European champion. The following year he won the title in Topoľčany in singles and doubles with Zoltan Fejer-Konnerth . In the junior class he was second in 1994 (behind the Austrian Kostadin Lengerov ) and in 1995 team European champion.

On the national level, Thomas Schröder won the national ranking tournament DTTB-TOP 12 three times: 1991 among the students, 1995 among the youth and 1996 among the juniors. In 1991 he was German student champion in doubles with A. Lunski. He won silver in singles in 1991 among the students and in 1992 and 1995 among the youngsters, and in 1995 in doubles with Zoltan Fejer-Konnerth.

Adults

In 1994 Schröder switched to the table tennis Bundesliga , where he played in the top and second-highest class for several clubs until 2001. In 2001 he helped TTC Helga Hannover to get promoted to the 1st Bundesliga.

In 1996 he was nominated for the European Championship . Here he was used in the team fights against Slovenia, France and Russia, but remained without a win. He was also eliminated immediately in single and double competitions. Only in mixed with Jie Schöpp two wins.

societies

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
GER European Youth Championship (Cadets) 1992 Topoľčany TCH gold gold
GER European Youth Championship (Cadets) 1991 Granada ESP silver 1
GER European Youth Championship (Juniors) 1995 The hague NED 1
GER European Youth Championship (Juniors) 1994 Paris FRA silver
GER Pro tour 1998 Ji 'Nan City CHN last 32
GER Pro tour 1997 Squid SWE Rd 1
GER Pro tour 1997 Chiba JPN last 16
GER Pro tour 1997 Kettering CLOSELY Quarter finals

literature

  • Manfred Schäfer: A player with perspective: Thomas Schröder - The sympathetic champion , DTS magazine , 1992/8 p. 51
  • National successes in the youth field - 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 , pp. 163–174

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1995/2 p. 46
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/6 p. 18
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1997/8 p. 11
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1998/6 p. 8
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1999/8 p. 16
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 2000/6 p. 29
  7. ↑ DTS magazine , 2001/6 p. 25
  8. ↑ Change of club on tischtennis.de ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on February 2, 2012)
  9. ↑ Thomas Schröder (table tennis player) Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on February 2, 2012)

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personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1977