Nicole Struse (born 31 May 1971 in
Haan
Haan () is a town in the district of Mettmann, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated at the western edge of the Bergisches Land, 12 km southwest of Wuppertal and 17 km east of Düsseldorf. In 1975, Gruiten was incorporated i ...
,
North Rhine Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabi ...
) is a German
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, who won several national contests and reached round three with
Elke Wosik in the Women's Doubles Competition at the
2004 Summer Olympics
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. She represented her native country at four consecutive
Summer Olympics
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, starting in 1992. 1995 she was ranked no 1 in the European ranking list. 2004 she won the
Europe Top-12
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History
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table tennis tournament. After winning the eight German single championship she replaced
Hilde Bussmann
Hildegard Bussmann (24 November 1914 – 10 January 1988) was an international table tennis player from Germany. She was born in Düsseldorf.
Table tennis career
From 1934 to 1939 she won eight medals in singles, doubles and team events in ...
and
Trude Pritzi as new record holder in 2005. 2006 she and
Wu Jiaduo
Wu Jiaduo (; born 19 September 1977) is a Chinese-born German table tennis player.
Personal
At age seven, Wu received specialised table tennis training. In 1995, she became the Zhejiang provincial champion. She enrolled at the East China Univer ...
won the German double championship. Struse ist right-hander, her strength is the offence. Recently, in March 2009, she was sixth of the German ranking. After that she was not ranked any more because of having not taken part in enough table tennis games during the last twelve months.
Associations
Nicole Struse belonged to the following associations:
* SSVg Haan (from 1980)
* TTC Fortuna Solingen
*
DSC Kaiserberg (1985–1986)
*
Weiß-Rot-Weiß Kleve (1986–1987)
*
Spvg Steinhagen (1987–1994)
*
TSG Dülmen TSG may refer to:
Organisations
* Sabre Holdings (former NYSE ticker symbol)
* The Sage Group, a worldwide software company
* Technology Services Group, a UK-based IT company
* Technology Solutions Group, former name of HP Enterprise Business, a ...
(1994–1997)
* Assistance Coesfeld (1997–1998)
* Montpellier TT (Frankreich) (1999–2000)
* FSV Kroppach (2000–2009)
*
SV Böblingen (2009-????)
Private life
On 1 May 2000 Struse became a member of the ''“Sportfördergruppe” of the
"Federal Defence Force"'' of Germany in
Mainz
Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main (river), Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-we ...
.
[Zeitschrift DTS, 2000/7 S.9]
Literature
* Rahul Nelson: ''Energiegeladenes Temperamentbündel auf dem Weg nach oben: Nicole Struse'', Magazine
DTS, 1990/6 S.36-38
* Manfred Schillings: ''Auf dem Gipfel des Erfolges'', Bericht über die dreifache Europameisterin 1996, Magazine
DTS, 1996/6 S.8-9
* Rahul Nelson: ''Das Leben der Nicole Struse'' (4 parts series)
** Teil 1: ''Allein unter Jungs'', Magazine
DTS, 1996/7 S.7-9
** Teil 2: ''Lehrjahre sind keine Mädchenjahre'', Magazine
DTS, 1996/9 S.36-38
** Teil 3: ''School is out forever'', Magazine
DTS, 1996/10 S.50-52
** Teil 4: ''Auf dem Gipfel Europas'', Magazine
DTS, 1996/11 S.26-28
See also
*
List of table tennis players
This list of table tennis players is alphabetically ordered by surname. The main source of the information included in this page is the official International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) database. More detailed information about their careers is ...
References
External links
Entry in the ITTF-Datenbank
{{DEFAULTSORT:Struse, Nicole
1971 births
Living people
People from Haan
Sportspeople from Düsseldorf (region)
German female table tennis players
Olympic table tennis players for Germany
Table tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 2004 Summer Olympics