Diane Rowe

Diane Schöler (née Rowe on 14 April 1933) is a retired table tennis player from England. In 1966 she married German table tennis player Eberhard Schöler, and since then competed for West Germany.[1] From 1951 to 1972 she won several medals in single, double, and team events in the Table Tennis European Championships, and in the World Table Tennis Championships.[2]

Diane Rowe
Diane Rowe in 1962
Personal information
Full nameDiane Schöler-Rowe
Nationality England  West Germany
Born14 April 1933 (1933-04-14) (age 89)
Marylebone, London, United Kingdom
Medal record
Table tennis
Representing  West Germany
World Championships
1971 Nagoya Mixed doubles
European Championships
1972 Rotterdam Team
1970 Moscow Doubles
Representing  England
World Championships
1965 Ljubljana Team
1963 Prague Doubles
1959 Dortmund Doubles
1957 Stockholm Doubles
1956 Tokyo Doubles
1956 Tokyo Team
1955 Utrecht Doubles
1955 Utrecht Team
1954 Wembley Doubles
1954 Wembley Team
1953 Bucharest Singles
1953 Bucharest Doubles
1953 Bucharest Team
1952 Bombay Doubles
1952 Bombay Mixed doubles
1952 Bombay Team
1951 Vienna Doubles
1951 Vienna Mixed doubles
1951 Vienna Team
European Championships
1966 London Doubles
1964 Malmo Doubles
1964 Malmo Team
1962 Berlin Singles
1962 Berlin Doubles
1962 Berlin Mixed doubles
1962 Berlin Team
1960 Zagreb Singles
1960 Zagreb Doubles
1960 Zagreb Team
1958 Budapest Doubles
1958 Budapest Team

Rowe started training in table tennis aged 14, under Viktor Barna. She is left-handed and until 1951 played a defensive style, but later put more accent on attacking. In early 1966, she married Eberhard Schöler and moved to Düsseldorf, where she gave birth to a daughter. She retired from competitions in 1973 and until 1997 worked as a table tennis coach. In 1993 she received the ITTF Merit Award,[3] and in 2001 the Dieter Mauritz Gedächtnispreis.[4]

She also won 17 English Open titles.

Diane has a twin sister, Rosalind Rowe, who was also an international table tennis player and often played doubles together with Diane.[5] In 1955 they published a book The twins on table tennis.[6] Their father was former amateur footballer Vivian Rowe.[7]

See also

References

  1. Zeitschrift DTS, 1966/20, pp. 6–7
  2. SCHOLER-ROWE Diane (FRG). ittf.com
  3. Zeitschrift DTS, 1993/6, p. 10
  4. Zeitschrift DTS, 2001/7, p. 27
  5. Happy birthday Diane and Rosalind, national heroines Archived 2014-07-18 at the Wayback Machine. ettu.org. 15 April 2013.
  6. Diane Rowe and Rosalind Rowe (1955). 'The twins' on table tennis.
  7. Haynes, Graham; Coumbe, Frank (2006). Timeless Bees: Brentford F.C. Who's Who 1920-2006. Harefield: Yore Publications. p. 138. ISBN 978-0955294914.
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