Hildegard Bussmann (24 November 1914 – 10 January 1988) was an international

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

player from

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. She was born in

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ...

Table tennis career

From 1934 to 1939 she won eight medals in singles, doubles and team events in the

World Table Tennis Championships The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The World Championships have been held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Five individual events, which include men ...

. The eight World Championship medals included two

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s in the doubles with Gertrude Pritzi at the

1939 World Table Tennis Championships The 1939 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Cairo from March 6 to March 11, 1939. Only 11 men's teams and 5 women's teams entered the Championships. Hungary, the United States and Austria were the major nations missing. Viktor Barna a ...

and the team event at the

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German female table tennis players 1914 births 1988 deaths Sportspeople from Düsseldorf {{Germany-tabletennis-bio-stub

Table tennis career

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