Gertrude Pritzi

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Gertrude Pritzi
Native namePritzi Gertrude
Full nameGertrude Pritzi
NationalityFlag of Austria.svg  Austria
Born15 January 1920
Vienna, Austria
Died21 October 1968(1968-10-21) (aged 48)
Vienna, Austria
Playing style Shakehand grip
Medal record
Women's table tennis
Representing Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
World Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1953 Bucharest Women's Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1951 Vienna Singles
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1951 Vienna Women's Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1949 Stockholm Singles
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1947 Paris Singles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1947 Paris Doubles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1938 Wembley Singles
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1938 Wembley Mixed Doubles
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1938 Wembley Women's Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1937 Baden Singles
Representing Flag of Germany (1935-1945).svg  Nazi Germany
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1939 Cairo Singles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1939 Cairo Doubles
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1939 Cairo Mixed Doubles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1939 Cairo Women's Team

Gertrude Pritzi (15 January 1920 - 21 October 1968) was a female international table tennis player from Austria.

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Table tennis career

From 1937 to 1953 she won fourteen medals in singles, doubles and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships. She also won doubles and team medals in the European Table Tennis Championships. [1]

The champion of Women's Singles in 1937 was declared vacant due to time limit rule in force at the time. In 2001, it was decided to declare the two players (i.e., Gertrude Pritzi and Ruth Aarons) Co-Champions. [2]

She began her table tennis career with the association Badner AC, changed 1936 finally to post office sports association Vienna and 1945 to Austria Vienna. In 1937 and 1938 she won and became generally accepted the Austrian championship thereby against the Trude Wildam prevailing at that time.

After the annexation of Austria by Germany, she participated in the World Championships of 1939 for Nazi Germany.

The fourteen World Championship medals [3] [4] included five gold medals; two in the women's singles, one in the women's team event and two in the doubles with Hilde Bussmann and Gizi Farkas. [5] [6]

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References

  1. ITTF_Database
  2. "ITTF Museum" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-09. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
  3. "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  4. "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  5. Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN   0-316-72645-1.
  6. Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312 . Guinness Superlatives. ISBN   0-85112-492-5.