Ursula Kamizuru

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Ursula Kamizuru

Ursula Kamizuru b. Hirschmüller (born November 7, 1953 in Sennfeld ; † August 5, 2008 in Wesel ) was one of the strongest German table tennis players in the 1970s and early 1980s .

Career

Because of her height ( the largest was the smallest ) of only 1.49 m, Ursula Hirschmüller was often underestimated. She achieved her first significant success in table tennis in 1971 when she won the TOP 12 national ranking tournament for young people. In the mid-1970s she was one of the best players in Germany. She was German champion in singles five times, and in doubles seven times. From 1979 to 1981 she won all possible nine DM titles. She took part in 4 world championships and 5 European championships. She was most successful internationally in 1982, when she won silver at the European Championships with the German team and bronze in the individual.

Between 1974 and 1982 she was invited to international matches 110 times. At that time she played for the then Duisburg Bundesliga club DSC Kaiserberg .

In 1979 she married Hideyuki Kamizuru from Japan, who worked for the Japanese table tennis supplier Butterfly . A year later she moved with him to Japan. She has two sons with him (Yukio, born March 1, 1983, Yohji, born February 1, 1985). In 1985 the family returned to Germany because Hideyuki Kamizuru took over the management of the European subsidiary of Butterfly from Béla Simon .

In 1996 Ursula Kamizuru became a youth and press attendant at the TuS Rheinberg 08 association. Most recently she lived in Rheinberg- Borth . Here she took care of the young table tennis players. She still played actively in the women's league.

Ursula Kamizuru died on August 5th, 2008 after two months of serious illness. She was buried three days later in the Borth cemetery.

Private

Ursula Kamizuru had two brothers and a sister. She trained as a bookseller and worked in the Duisburg city library.

successes

  • Participation in 4 table tennis world championships
    • 1975 in Calcutta: 10th place with women's team
    • 1977 in Birmingham: Quarter-finals in individual as the only European, 11th place with women's team
    • 1979 in Pyongyang: 9th place with women's team
    • 1981 in Novi Sad: Round of 16 in doubles, 5th place with women's team
  • Participation in 5 European table tennis championships
    • 1974 in Novi Sad: quarter-finals in individual, 6th place with women's team
    • 1976 in Prague: 8th place with women's team
    • 1978 in Duisburg: 8th place with women's team
    • 1980 in Bern:
    • 1982 in Budapest: 3rd place in individual, 2nd place with women's team
  • Europe TOP-12
    • 1975 in Vienna: 11th place
    • 1978 in Prague: 7th place
    • 1980 in Munich: 7th place
    • 1982 in Nantes: 6th place
  • International championships
    • 1974 Belgium: 1st place mixed (with Peter Stellwag ), 2nd place with women's team
    • 1975 Hungary: 2nd place mixed
    • 1976 France: 2nd place doubles
    • 1976 Poland: 1st place doubles (with R. Schmitz), 2nd place with women's team
    • 1977 Hungary: Semi-finals singles, 2nd place doubles, 2nd place mixed
  • National German championships
    • 1973 in Munich - 1st place double (with Rose Diebold )
    • 1974 in Saarbrücken - 2nd place doubles (with Rose Diebold), 4th place mixed (with Peter Stellwag )
    • 1975 in Hanover - 1st place doubles (with Rose Diebold)
    • 1976 in Essen - 2nd place singles, 1st place doubles (with Rose Diebold), 2nd place mixed (with Peter Engel )
    • 1977 in Berlin - 1st place individual
    • 1978 in Lübeck - 2nd place singles, 3rd place doubles (with Rose Diebold), 4th place mixed (with Peter Engel)
    • 1979 in Rüsselsheim - 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Kirsten Krüger ), 1st place mixed (with Ralf Wosik )
    • 1980 in Hamburg - 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Kirsten Krüger), 1st place mixed (with Ralf Wosik)
    • 1981 in Böblingen - 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Kirsten Krüger), 1st place mixed (with Ralf Wosik)
    • 1982 in Hanover - 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Kirsten Krüger), 2nd place mixed (with Ralf Wosik)
  • National ranking tournaments
    • 1975 in Hattersheim: 2nd place
    • 1976 in Elsenfeld: 1st place
    • 1978 in Minden: 1st place
    • 1979 in Hattersheim: 1st place
    • 1980 in Neckarsulm: 2nd place
  • 8 German team championships with DSC Kaiserberg
    • 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1988
  • 5 German cup championships with DSC Kaiserberg
    • 1976 in Löhne: 1st place
    • 1977 in Frankenthal: 1st place
    • 1978 in Süßen: 1st place
    • 1979 in Rinteln: 1st place
    • 1982 in Donauwörth: 1st place
  • West German championships
    • 1975: 1st place doubles
    • 1977: 1st place singles, 1st place doubles
    • 1978: 1st place singles, 1st place mixed
    • 1979: 1st place individual, 1st place mixed
    • 1981: 1st place singles, 1st place doubles, 1st place mixed
  • National ranking tournament TOP-12 youth
    • 1971 in Heusenstamm: 1st place
  • German senior championship
    • 2001 in Bad Iburg: Class 40+ - 3rd place single, 1st place double (with Rose Diebold)
  • Leaderboards
    • 1977: 8th place in the ITTF world rankings
    • 1982: 4th place in the European ranking
    • 1977–1982: 1st place in the German ranking list

societies

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
FRG  European Championship  1982  Budapest  HUN   Semifinals      2
FRG  European Championship  1980  Bern  SUI   Quarter finals       
FRG  European Championship  1974  Novi Sad  YUG   Quarter finals       
FRG  EURO TOP12  1982  Nantes  FRA   6th       
FRG  EURO TOP12  1980  Munich  FRG   7th       
FRG  EURO TOP12  1978  Prague  TCH   7th       
FRG  EURO TOP12  1975  Vienna  AUT   11       
FRG  World Championship  1981  Novi Sad  YUG   last 32  last 16  last 64  5 
FRG  World Championship  1979  Pyongyang  PRK   last 32  last 64  last 64  9 
FRG  World Championship  1977  Birmingham  CLOSELY   Quarter finals  last 32  Agony  11 
FRG  World Championship  1975  Calcutta  IND   last 64  last 32  last 64  10 

literature

  • Gerlinde Glatzer : Winning a title is not the most important thing in life , DTS magazine , 1981/21 pp. 5–6.
  • Willi Baur: The effort was definitely worth it, DTS magazine , 1982/10 issue Süd-West p. 16.
  • Annegret Steffien: I am happy to help anyone who can come - From a visit to Kamizuru in Tokyo, DTS magazine , 1982/14 issue South-West p. 39.
  • Winfried Stöckmann: The fighter's heart has now peace , magazine tischtennis , 2008/9 p. 43.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1981/6 p. 4
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1985/4 p. 21
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/7 p. 24
  4. ↑ SH: Ursula Kamizuru is dead , report from August 6, 2008 on tischtennis.de (accessed on August 21, 2012) ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tischtennis.de
  5. ↑ Corrected obituary in the Rheinische Post from August 7, 2008, local part Rheinberg
  6. ↑ Ursula Kamizuru Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 8, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Kamizuru, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirschmüller, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Sennfeld
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 2008
Place of death Wesel