Erika Metzger was a German table tennis

Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...

 player. She lived in Berlin

Berlin

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. In 1929 she and Mona Rüster won the first place medal for Germany in doubles in the Table Tennis World Championships

World championship

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Leading up to this win, Metzger won the 1927 International German Championships. She would control the first place position in the German rankings in both 1928 and 1929.

Accomplishments

• Table Tennis World Championships
  World championship
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  • 1928 in Stockholm: 2nd place singles, 2nd place mixed doubles with Daniel Pecsi (HUN). Quarterfinal doubles
  • 1929 in Budapest: 1st place doubles with Mona Rüster (DE), Quarterfinal singles, quarterfinal mixed

• International German Championships
  • 1927 Berlin
    Berlin
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      1st place singles, 2nd place doubles with Wirz, 2nd place mixed with Daniel Pecsi (HUN)
  • 1928 Krefeld
    Krefeld
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      2nd place singles, 1st place mixed with Daniel Pecsi (HUN)

• International Championships
  • 1928 England
    England
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      1st place singles, 1st place mized with Daniel Pecsi (HUN)
  • 1929 Switzerland
    Switzerland
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    1st place singles, 1st place double with Ingeborg Carnatz.