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Egon Kramminger

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Egon Kramminger
Kramminger in 2013
Personal information
Born (1948-08-05) 5 August 1948 (age 76)
St. Valentin, Austria
Sport
Country Austria
SportPara table tennis
DisabilitySpinal cord injury
Disability classC3
Medal record
Para table tennis
Representing  Austria
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2010 Gwangju Men's teams C3
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Montreux Men's teams C3
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Beijing Men's teams C3
World Team Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Bratislava Men's teams C3
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 1995 Hillerod Men's teams C3
Silver medal – second place 2005 Jesolo Men's teams C3
Silver medal – second place 2007 Kranjska Gora Men's singles C3
Silver medal – second place 2009 Genoa Men's teams C3
Silver medal – second place 2013 Lignano Men's teams C3
Silver medal – second place 2015 Vejle Men's teams C3
Bronze medal – third place 1997 Stockholm Men's teams C4
Bronze medal – third place 1999 Piestany Men's teams C3
Bronze medal – third place 2001 Frankfurt Men's teams C3
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Kranjska Gora Men's teams C3
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Split Men's teams C3
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Lasko Men's teams C3

Egon Kramminger (born 5 August 1948)[1] is an Austrian para table tennis player. He is a four-time World medalist, 12-time European medalist and has participated at the Paralympic Games five times.[2][3]

Accident

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On 9 September 1967, Kramminger crashed his car into a high voltage mast while driving tired and was thrown twenty metres out of his car. He had compression fractures on his fifth, sixth and seventh thoracic vertebrae and spent eleven months in a hospital in Bietigheim then was moved to five different hospitals in a span of five years. When he arrived at the Vienna General Hospital, he had a decubitus on his buttocks and was transferred to a rehabilitation centre in Tübingen. In 1972, his left leg got amputated followed by his right kidney, bladder, rectum and his right leg in 1985.[4]

In the early 1990s, Kramminger discovered table tennis and began to compete internationally in 1995 where he won his first ever title when he won the European championships in Hillerod with Peter Starl and Manfred Dollmann.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Athens 2004 Paralympic Games - Table Tennis - Official Results Book". ipc-services.org. International Paralympic Committee. 19 September 2004.
  2. ^ "Egon Kramminger - IPTTC Profile". International Para Table Tennis Committee. 1 October 2020.
  3. ^ "Egon Kramminger - Osterreichisches Paralympisches Committee (in German)". Austrian Paralympic Committee. 1 October 2020.
  4. ^ "Current interview with Egon Kramminger (in German)". Steiner. 1 October 2020.
  5. ^ "Egon Kramminger - Never Give Up! (in German)". Egon Kramminger website. 1 October 2020. Archived from the original on 2015-09-26.