Mihaela Steff
Ioana Mihaela Steff ( born November 8, 1978 in Bistrita, Bistrita-Nasaud circle ) is a former Romanian table tennis player. Repeatedly won the European Championship.
Career
Steff is left-handed. At age nine, she started to play table tennis. It was promoted by the coach Gheorghe Bozga who also oversaw known players such as Calin Creangă and Adrian Crisan. Six times they won at the Romanian National Championships in 1994 in a double with Antonela Manac, 1996 in singles, doubles (with Antonela Manac ) and mixed ( with Andrei Filimon ), 1997 Single and 2002 Mixed by Adrian Crisan.
In 1997 she joined the club in the German Bundesliga for Bistrita team galaxy Lübeck, two years later to TuS Bad Driburg and finally in 2002 to Müllermilch Langweid. In 2004 she left Germany to Italy to Sterilgarda TT Castelgoffredo. With the team of Lübeck, she won the 1998 European Cup.
Successfully she was at the European Youth Championships, where she won gold again in the singles, five times in duplicate and once in mixed doubles. At the European Championships of adults, it reached 2000 and 2005 in the individual the final. Together with Tamara Boroš she was in the double in 2002, 2003 and 2005 European champion.
From 1995 to 2006 she participated in nine World Championships for Romania. 2000 and 2004 she qualified for the Olympic Games, where she in 2000 in singles and doubles reaching the quarterfinals.
In the fall of 2005, refused the Romanian internationals Mihaela Steff, Otilia Bădescu and Adriana Zamfir - Simion - Năstase to sign the contracts submitted by the Romanian Table Tennis Federation, which they do without, inter alia, 10% of the revenue from the ITTF Pro Tour in favor of the Association should. They were then excluded from the national team and no longer considered for the Table Tennis Championships 2007.
Private
Steff is the daughter of a teacher married couple. She has four younger sisters and two younger brothers. On September 5, 2005, she married Marius Meruţiu and then stepped under the name Steff- Meruţiu. In May 2009 she became the mother of a son.
Results from the ITTF database