Karin Suter-Erath (born 24 November 1970) is a Swiss para badminton player and a former wheelchair tennis player.

Suter-Erath was a very keen handball and soccer player when aged 13 and played in European handball leagues from the ages of 17 to 27. She studied physical education 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 Nottwil, 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 2004 Summer Paralympics 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 Roger Federer and FC Basel 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 Manchester then won eight medals in the BWF Para-Badminton World Championships and twelve medals in the European championships.

Wheelchair tennis statistics

Paralympic Games Outcome YearTournament Surface PartnerOpponentScoreBronze 2004 Summer Paralympics Hard Sandra Kalt Chiyoko Ohmae Mie Yaosa 7–5, 6–3

Para-badminton statistics

World Championships

Women's singles Year Venue Opponent Score Result 2011 Guatemala City, Guatemala Son Ok-cha 19–21, 14–21 Silver 2013 Helmut-Körnig-Halle,Dortmund, Germany Son Ok-cha 21–16, 15–21, 21–11 Gold 2015 Stoke Mandeville Stadium, Stoke Mandeville, England Wang Ping 10–21, 19–21 Bronze 2019 St. Jakobshalle, Basel, Switzerland Sarina Satomi 14–21, 13–21 Bronze

Women's doubles Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result 2011 Guatemala City, Guatemala Sonja Haesler Round Robin Gold 2013 Helmut-Körnig-Halle,Dortmund, Germany Sujirat Pookkham Lee Sun-ae Son Ok-cha 11–21, 21–19, 19–21 Silver

Mixed doubles Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result 2011 Guatemala City, Guatemala Avni Kertmen David Toupe Sonja Haesler 13–21, 14–21 Bronze 2013 Helmut-Körnig-Halle,Dortmund, Germany Thomas Wandschneider Lee Sam-seop Son Ok-cha 19–21, 21–23 Bronze

References

External links

Karin Suter-Erath at the Swiss Paralympic Committee