Heinz Schneider
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| Nationality |  Germany | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 October 1932 Mulhouse | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 20 August 2007 (aged 74) | ||||||||||||||
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Heinz Schneider (October 12, 1932 – August 20, 2007) was a male East German international table tennis player.[1]
He won a bronze medal at the 1957 World Table Tennis Championships in the men's singles.[2][3]
Between 1950 and 1961 Schneider won six East German Championships in singles and six times in doubles. He was the first German to win a medal in table tennis after the Second World War. He played 26 international matches for Germany and more than 100 international matches for the East German team.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ "Men's Singles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2012.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
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