Diane Scholer-Rowe

Diane Scholer (born Rowe ) ( born April 14, 1933, Marylebone, London) is a successful table tennis player. She won 20 medals at world championships and 14 medals at European Championships. She was twice world champion in doubles.

Career

1933, the twin sisters Diane and Rosalind Rowe were born. At 14, she began to seriously play table tennis. You were a member of the club Ealing in west London, where she trained the multiple World Champion Victor Barna and sporty in advancing.

Diane was left-handed. Until the World Cup 1951, she played defense, then she put her style on to attack. Until 1966, they played over 200 international matches for England and took this time to 11 world championships. She won with her sister in 1951 and 1954, the gold medal in doubles. Therefore, they were often also called the Rowe twins ( Rowe twins ). 1962 and 1964 Diane was with Mary Shannon European Champion in doubles.

Early 1966, she married the German top player Eberhard Scholer, with whom she has a daughter. From then on, she lived in Dusseldorf and was a member of Post SV Dusseldorf. For the first time, she was nominated in October 1966, for a German international game, where they lost against Hungary in their individual Weissenthurm. For Germany, it launched in 1967, four times in the World Championships.

On April 27, 1973, she resigned from the international competitive sport, as they played their 70th and last international match for Germany.

Functionary and author

After that, she was still active until 1997 as a trainer and as Damenwartin the West German Table Tennis Association. She was awarded the ITTF Merit Award in 1993. Since 1997 she has been President of the Swaythling Club International. For her contributions to the table tennis sport, she was awarded in June 2001 of the DTTB Dieter Mauritz Memorial Award.

Known are their books The Twins on Table Tennis, which she edited in 1955 with her sister Rosalind, and in 1965 published table tennis.

Achievements

World Championships 1951 in Vienna 1st doubles (with Rosalind Rowe )
3rd Place Mixed ( with Johnny Leach, ENG)
3rd place with Team England

2nd place doubles (with Rosalind Rowe )
2nd place Mixed ( with Johnny Leach, ENG)
3rd place with Team England

3rd place individual
2nd place doubles (with Rosalind Rowe )
2nd place with Team England

Quarter-finals Individual
1st doubles (with Rosalind Rowe )
3rd place with Team England

Quarter-finals Individual
2nd place doubles (with Rosalind Rowe )
3rd place with Team England

Quarter-finals Individual
3rd doubles (with Ann Haydon, ENG )
2nd place with Team England

2nd place doubles (with Ann Haydon, ENG )

3rd doubles (with Ann Haydon, ENG )

Quarter-finals Individual

2nd place doubles (with Mary Shanno, ENG )

3rd place with Team England

5th place with Team Germany

3rd Place Mixed ( with Eberhard Scholer )
7th place with Team Germany

7th place with Team Germany

European Championships 1958 in Budapest Quarter-finals Individual
3rd doubles (with Ann Haydon, ENG )
1st place with Team England

3rd place individual
2nd place with Team England

2nd Single
1st doubles (with Mary Shanno, ENG )
3rd Place Mixed ( with Robert Stevens, ENG)
2nd place with Team England

3rd doubles (with Mary Shannon Wright, ENG)

3rd doubles (with Kathleen Thompson, ENG )

Quarter-finals Individual
2nd place doubles (with Agnes Simon )
Quarterfinals Mixed
7th place with Team Germany

Quarter-finals Individual
Quarter-final double
2nd place with Team Germany

Europe Top 12 1972 in Zagreb: 8th place
1973 in Böblingen: 11th place

International Championships Netherlands 1952 - 1st Place item
Netherlands 1953 - 1st Place item
1953, France - 1st place individual
Netherlands 1956 - 1st Place item
1960 Germany - 2nd place individual
1960 Germany - 1st place doubles (with Katrin Thompson, ENG )
Netherlands 1961 - 1st place doubles (with Rosemarie Gomolla )
Wales 1961 - 1st Place item
Netherlands 1962 - 1st Place item
Wales 1962 - 1st Place item
1962 ( Dec.) Wales - 1st Place Individual
Belgium 1964 - 1st Place Individual
1964 Ireland - 1st Place Individual
1964 Germany - 3rd Place Single, 2nd place doubles (with Mary Shannon, ENG )
1965 Germany - 2nd place individual, 1st doubles (with Mary Shannon, ENG )
1966 Germany - 3rd place individual, 1st doubles (with Mary Shannon Wright, ENG)
Netherlands 1968 - 1st place individual, 1st place Mixed ( with Eberhard Scholer )
Hungary 1969 - 1st place individual, 1st place Mixed ( with Eberhard Scholer )
Belgium 1969 - 1st place doubles (with Agnes Simon ), 1st place Mixed ( with Eberhard Scholer )
England 1969 - 1st Place Mixed ( with Eberhard Scholer )
1970 Germany - 2nd place doubles (with Agnes Simon ), 3rd place Mixed ( with Eberhard Scholer )
CSSR 1970 - 1st Place Mixed ( with Eberhard Scholer )
1972 Germany - 3rd doubles (with Edit Wetzel )
Austria 1972 - 1st place doubles (with Agnes Simon )

National German Championships 1967 in Berlin: 2nd place individual, 2nd place doubles (with Wiebke Hendriksen ), 1st place Mixed ( with Eberhard Scholer )
1969 in Hagen: 2nd place individual, 2nd place doubles (with Wiebke Hendriksen ), 3rd place Mixed ( with Eberhard Scholer )
1970 in Frankfurt / Main: 1st place individual, 1st doubles (with Wiebke Hendriksen ), 3rd place Mixed ( with Eberhard Scholer )
1971 in Hanover: 3rd place individual, 1st doubles (with Agnes Simon ), 3rd place Mixed ( with Eberhard Scholer )
1972 in Karlsruhe: 1st place individual, 1st doubles (with Agnes Simon ), 3rd place Mixed ( with Eberhard Scholer )
In Munich in 1973: 3rd place individual, 3rd doubles (with Monika block ), 1st place Mixed ( with Eberhard Scholer )

English National Championships 1960: 1st place individual, 1st doubles (with Jill Rook ), 1st place Mixed ( with Johnny Leach )
1961: 1st place individual
1962: 1st place individual, 1st place Mixed ( with Johnny Leach )
1964: 1st place individual, 1st place Mixed ( with Ian Harrison)
1965: 1st place Mixed ( with Chester Barnes )

International English Championships 1950-1955: 1st doubles (with Rosalind Rowe )
1956: 1st place doubles (with Ann Haydon )
1960: 1st place doubles (with Catherine Best )
1962: 1st place individual
1962-1965: 1st doubles (with Mary Shannon)

National ranking tournaments 1967 in Hagen: 3rd place
1969 in Siegen: 2nd place
In Augsburg in 1970: 1st Place
1971 in Duisburg: 2nd place

Rank positions 1953 ITTF World Ranking: 5th place
1962 European ranking ETTU: 3rd place
1970 German ranking: 1st place
1972 German ranking: 1st place

Results from the ITTF database

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