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| Born | 5 August 1948 St. Valentin, Austria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Austria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Para table tennis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability | Spinal cord injury | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | C3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Egon Kramminger (born 5 August 1948) [1] is an Austrian para table tennis player. He is a four-time World medalist, 12-time European medalist and has participated at the Paralympic Games five times. [2] [3]
On 9 September 1967, Kramminger crashed his car into a high voltage mast while driving tired and was thrown twenty metres out of his car. He had compression fractures on his fifth, sixth and seventh thoracic vertebrae and spent eleven months in a hospital in Bietigheim then was moved to five different hospitals in a span of five years. When he arrived at the Vienna General Hospital, he had a decubitus on his buttocks and was transferred to a rehabilitation centre in Tübingen. In 1972, his left leg got amputated followed by his right kidney, bladder, rectum and his right leg in 1985. [4]
In the early 1990s, Kramminger discovered table tennis and began to compete internationally in 1995 where he won his first ever title when he won the European championships in Hillerod with Peter Starl and Manfred Dollmann. [5]
Matti Launonen was a Finnish para table tennis player who competed until his sudden death in 2019. He was one of the first table tennis players to win a world title in the para table tennis championships in Assen, Netherlands and a European title in Salou, Spain.
Rainer Schmidt is a retired German para table tennis player who played in international level events. He participated in four Summer Paralympic Games and has won three Paralympic titles. He has also won five World titles and nine European titles in mostly team events with Jochen Wollmert.
Gilles de la Bourdonnaye is a French para table tennis player who competes in international level events. He is a triple Paralympic champion, triple World champion and thirteen time European champion. His right arm was amputated when he was three years old after an elevator accident.
Nico Vergeylen is a retired Belgian para table tennis player who competed in international level events. He was a Paralympic champion, double World silver medalist and six-time European medalist. He has won most of his team titles alongside Marc Ledoux and Mathieu Loicq.
Stanisław Frączyk is a retired Austrian-Polish para table tennis player. He is a triple Paralympic champion, a triple World champion, an eleven-time European champion and three time Polish national champion.
Tonnie Heijnen is a Dutch para table tennis player who competes in international level events. He is a Paralympic champion, World champion and six-time European medalist. He competes in team events alongside Gerben Last.
Nico Blok is a retired Dutch para table tennis player who competed in international level events. He is a Paralympic bronze medalist, three-time World medalist and a double European silver medalist.
Daniel Arnold is a retired German para table tennis player who competed in international level events. He is a six-time Paralympic champion, five-time World champion and eight-time European champion. He was born with deformed arms and a shortened right leg due to dysmelia.
Stéphane Messi is a French para table tennis player who competes in international level events. He is a Paralympic champion, a five-time World medalist and a European champion. He has won medals in team events alongside Michel Schaller, François Sérignat and Alain Pichon.
Manfred Dollmann is an Austrian para table tennis player who competes in international level events. He is a double European champion, five-time World medalist and has participated at the Paralympic Games seven times winning two medals.
Desző Berecki is a Hungarian para table tennis player who competes in international level events. He is a four-time European medalist and has participated at the Paralympic Games five times, his highest achievement was reaching the men's singles' quarterfinal in the 2012 Summer Paralympics where he lost to Jose Manuel Ruiz Reyes in three sets to two.
Jan Gürtler is a German para table tennis player who competes in international level events. He is a World silver medalist, a double European champion and three-time Paralympic medalist in team events.
Jiři Suchánek is a Czech para table tennis player who competes in international level events. He is a World and Paralympic bronze medalist and a five-time European medalist.
Maxime Thomas is a French para table tennis player who competes in international level events. He is a triple Paralympic bronze medalist, a World champion and six time European champion in team events. He is also a four-time World bronze medalist and double European champion in singles events.
Hans Ruep is a retired Austrian para table tennis player who competed at international level events. He is a double World medalist, ten-time European medalist and has competed at the Paralympic Games four times where he reached the bronze medal match in the men's team event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics with Andreas Vevera when they lost to South Korea.
Carlos Raul Maslup was an Argentine para table tennis player who competed in international elite competitions. He was a Pan American singles' champion, Parapan American Games bronze medalist in the men's singles and competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. He was also a Paralympic swimmer and Paralympic athlete at the 1988 Summer Paralympics where he won three silver medals and one bronze medal.
Rene Gutdeutsch is an Austrian former para table tennis player who competed at international elite competitions. He is a Paralympic silver medalist and a European champion in team events alongside Stanislaw Fraczyk. He was born with a shortened right leg.
Thomas "Tom" Matthews is a British Paralympic table tennis player. At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, he won a bronze medal in the Men's individual class 1 event. Matthews is also a European champion and a World bronze medalist.
Thomas Rau is a German para table tennis player. He won bronze in the Men's team class 6–7 at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo. He is a European champion and a World bronze medalist. He was born without a right arm and has missing fingers on his left hand.
Walter Kilger is a German former para table tennis player. He is a three-time European champion, World silver medalist and a Paralympic bronze medalist. He was member of the German paralympic tabletennis team at the Paralympics 2000 in Sydney, 2004 in Peking and 2008. and won 2 bronze medals. He was decorated by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany with the Silver Laurel Leaf, Germany's highest sport award.<ref>Sportbericht der Bundesregierung an den Bunbestag - Drucksache 14/96119 - Seite 51 ... seit 1992 werden auch die Medaillengewinner der Paralympischen Spiele mit dem Silbernen Lorbeerblatt ausgezeichnet ...<r/ef>
