Member Associations | 1 Jun 2015

Elke SCHALL-SUSS joined DTTB coaching team

Heike AHLERT: Elke is the perfect person for this position

Another member of the golden generation, Elke SCHALL-SUSS, joined Jörg ROSSKOPF and Jie SCHÖPP as a member of coaching stuff in DTTB. She will work in German table tennis center in Dusseldorf (DTTZ) in charge of the national residential school children training group. The two-time team's World bronze medalist, four-time European champion, German Single Champion and five-time Olympian will succeed Jörg BITZIGEIO at the DTTZ who is doing 2 jobs at once at the moment – residential school kids training next to his main task as junior national girls' coach.

"I look forward to the new job. I gained valuable experience working in Hessian Table Tennis Federation" said SCHALL-SUSS, who lives already for years in Dusseldorf. "I will try to show the children the way to the high-performance sports."

Heike AHLERT, Vice-President of the twelfth-biggest German sports federation stated: "Elke is the perfect person for this position: She will contribute experiences as a former successful national team player, as a coach at a German regional association and used to join a residential table tennis school as a child".