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Regina Isecke

Country (sports)	Germany
Born	(1953-01-05)5 January 1953 Pulheim, Germany
Died	26 June 2015(2015-06-26) (aged 62) Lohmar, Germany
Turned pro	1991
Retired	2002
Singles
Highest ranking	No. 3 (26 January 1993)
Other tournaments
Paralympic Games	SF – 3rd (1992)
Medal record Summer Paralympic Games 1992 Barcelona Singles

Regina Isecke (5 January 1953 – 26 June 2015) was a German wheelchair tennis player who competed in international level events. She was known as a pioneer in wheelchair tennis in Germany and was the German Wheelchair Tennis Association's president for many years until her death.

Isecke was involved in an accident in 1971 resulting in a spinal cord injury and paraplegia, she was previously a wheelchair basketball player and a para table tennis player before switching to wheelchair tennis.

A street in Junkersdorf, Cologne is named after her, Regina-Isecke-Straße, in 2018.

References

1. "Trauer um Regina Isecke (in German)". Deutscher Tennis Bund. 2 July 2015.
2. "Regina Isecke - ITF Profile". International Tennis Federation. 8 July 2020.
3. "Behinderthensportler trauern um Regina Isecke (in German)". www.ksta.de. 30 June 2015.
4. "Lindenthaler Straßen passen auf 200 Seiten (in German)". Kolner Wochenspiegel. 27 February 2018.

External links

• Regina Isecke at the International Tennis Federation
• Regina Isecke at the International Paralympic Committee

• 1953 births
• 2015 deaths
• German female tennis players
• German wheelchair tennis players
• Paralympic wheelchair tennis players for Germany
• Paralympic bronze medalists for Germany
• Paralympic medalists in wheelchair tennis
• Medalists at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
• Wheelchair tennis players at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
• Wheelchair tennis players at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
• People from Pulheim
• Sportspeople from Cologne (region)
• Tennis players from North Rhine-Westphalia
• 20th-century German sportswomen