Wolfgang Stein

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Wolfgang Stein (born October 21, 1943 ) is a former table tennis player of the GDR. He was GDR champion six times and team champion five times.

successes

The left-hander Stein was one of the best players in the GDR in the 1960s. He began his career in 1963 at BSG Carl Zeiss Jena , with whom he played in the GDR league until 1970 and won the GDR team championship in 1967/68 and 1968/69. In 1970 he switched to BSG Elektronik Gornsdorf . With this club he was three times champion, namely in 1984/85, 1985/86 and 1988/90.

From 1965 to 1967 Stein won the GDR championship title in doubles three times in a row, in 1965 with Lothar Pleuse , then twice with Heribert Zitzmann. In 1967 and 1968 he won the title in singles, in 1969 in mixed with Doris Hovestädt .

The GDR association DTTV nominated Stein in 1964 for the European championship and in 1965 and 1967 for the world championship.

After the 1990/91 season with BSG Elektronik Gornsdorf in the Second Bundesliga, Stein ended his active career as a competitive athlete and founded a table tennis shop in Chemnitz-Rabenstein , which he still operates today. In 1994 he became a member of the regional division Lok Chemnitz.

In the 2011/2012 season, Stein serves for the 3rd team of the SG Handwerk Rabenstein amateur club in the lowest division.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
GDR  World Championship  1967  Stockholm  SWE   last 32  last 128  last 64  11 
GDR  World Championship  1965  Ljubljana  YUG   Agony  last 32  last 32  15th 

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bildkurier accessed on February 10, 2010
  2. ↑ http://hameyer.eu/dttv/dttv-he-bu.pdf
  3. ↑ http://www.hameyer.eu/dttv/dttv-dh.pdf
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/4 regional Süd, p. 17.
  5. ↑ Result service to the city trade association Chemnitz
  6. ^ ITTF statistics ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed September 15, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Stein, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1943