Tone Folkeson

Tone Folkeson (* 1964 in Gothenburg , † January 13, 1985 in Spain ) was one of the most successful Norwegian table tennis players in the early 1980s . She took part in four European and two world championships .

National successes in Norway

At the age of seven, the Folkeson family moved to Norway, first to Trondheim, then to Oslo.

In 1975, 1977 and 1978 she won the Norwegian Junior Championship in singles, in 1977 and 1978 in doubles and from 1975 to 1978 in mixed. In 1978, when she was 14, she won the Norwegian national championship for women for the first time. She repeated this success five more times, namely from 1981 to 1984 in uninterrupted succession. In doubles, she won the championship five times (1978, 1981 to 1984), plus a mixed title in 1982.

International

Tone Folkeson represented Norway four times at European Championships and in 1981 and 1983 at the World Championships . In the 1984/85 season she moved from the Swedish club Oxie Malmö to SV Ahlem in the German women's Bundesliga . Here she won against strong players like Judit Magos , Susanne Wenzel and Annette Greisinger .

Private

Tone Folkeson had a brother. She studied computer science, first at the University of Oslo, and from 1984 at the University of Kiel.

On January 13, 1985 - the day after a European league match with Norway - Tone Folkeson died in a car accident near Seville.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
NOR	World Championship	1983	Tokyo	JPN	last 128	last 64	Agony	35
NOR	World Championship	1981	Novi Sad	YUG	last 128	Agony	Agony	35

swell

• Peter Huebner: Wish number one: a car , DTS magazine , 1984/9 page 16
• Manfred Schäfer: A person you had to come to love , DTS magazine , 1985/2 page 29
• all successes (Norwegian) ( Memento from October 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) ( MS Word ; 2.0 MB) (accessed on January 4, 2016)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tone Folkeson Findings from ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 6, 2011)