Misplaced Pages

East Germany national badminton team

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Former national badminton team representing East Germany
East Germany
AssociationDeutscher Federball-Verband (DFV)
ConfederationBE (Europe)
European Mixed Team Championships
Appearances1 (first in 1990)
Best resultGroup stage
Helvetia Cup
Appearances1 (first in 1977)
Best resultThird place (1977)

The East Germany national badminton team represented East Germany in international badminton team competitions. After the German reunification in October 1990, the East German badminton team merged with the national badminton of West Germany and the Deutscher Federball-Verband (also known as DDR-Badmintonverband) was merged with the German Badminton Association.

East Germany competed in the Helvetia Cup mixed team tournament once in 1977 and achieved third place. East Germany also won a bronze at the European Junior Badminton Championships in the women's singles event.

Participation in European Team Badminton Championships

Mixed Team
Year Result
Soviet Union 1990 Group stage

Participation in Helvetia Cup

The Helvetia Cup or European B Team Championships was a European mixed team championship in badminton. The first Helvetia Cup tournament took place in Zürich, Switzerland in 1962. The tournament took place every two years from 1971 until 2007, after which it was dissolved.

Year Result
Soviet Union 1977 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Third place

Players

Squad

As of 1990

Men's team

Name DoB/Age Ranking of event
MS MD XD
Thomas Mundt (1964-03-20)20 March 1964 (aged 26) - - -
Holger Wippich (1965-05-14)14 May 1965 (aged 25) - - -
André Wiechmann (1970-01-07)7 January 1970 (aged 20) - - -
Edgar Michalowski (1950-01-30)30 January 1950 (aged 40) - - -
Erfried Michalowsky (1950-01-30)30 January 1950 (aged 40) - - -

Women's team

Name DoB/Age Ranking of event
WS WD XD
Monika Thiere (1953-02-28)28 February 1953 (aged 37) - - -
Petra Michalowsky (1962-11-27)27 November 1962 (aged 27) - - -
Angela Cassens (1951-11-10)10 November 1951 (aged 38) - - -
Birgit Kämmer (1962-06-16)16 June 1962 (aged 28) - - -
Ilona Michalowsky (1960-07-04)4 July 1960 (aged 30) - - -

References

  1. Helvetia Cup in EuropeanBadminton.org Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
East Germany National sports teams of East Germany
Categories:
East Germany national badminton team Add topic