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
Eberhard Schöler and Diane Rowe in 1962
Personal information
Full nameDiane Schöler-Rowe
Nationality England  West Germany
Born14 April 1933 (1933-04-14) (age 87)
Marylebone, London, United Kingdom

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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