Karin Suter-Erath (born 24 November 1970) is a

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para badminton player and a former

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player. Suter-Erath was a very keen

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and

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player when aged 13 and played in European handball leagues from the ages of 17 to 27. She studied

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at university and became a secondary school teacher once she graduated. In 1997, Suter-Erath was paralysed from the waist down in an accident which caused her to stop playing handball. While in rehab in

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, she tried out wheelchair tennis and when she completed her rehab then she took the sport up professionally. In 2004, Suter-Erath teamed up with Sandra Kalt and competed in the

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and won their first ever Paralympic medal in the women's doubles. From 2005 to 2007, she reached to world number six and was voted as Basel's Athlete of the Year alongside

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and

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a year later. As well as being very successful in wheelchair tennis, she took up para badminton and won a silver medal in the women's doubles at the 2010 Para Badminton European Championships in

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then won eight medals in the

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and twelve medals in the European championships.

Wheelchair tennis statistics

Paralympic Games

Para-badminton statistics

World Championships

''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles''

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Karin Suter-Erath
at the Swiss Paralympic Committee {{DEFAULTSORT:Suter-Erath, Karin 1970 births Living people Swiss female badminton players Swiss female tennis players Paralympic badminton players for Switzerland Paralympic wheelchair tennis players for Switzerland Paralympic bronze medalists for Switzerland Paralympic medalists in wheelchair tennis Wheelchair tennis players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Badminton players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Sportspeople from Basel-Stadt Tennis players from Basel-Stadt People with paraplegia 21st-century Swiss women Swiss para-badminton players