20 years of badminton are enough – that was the headline in the Donau-Zeitung in the summer of 1998. Elke Cramer, then 30 years old, had decided to hang up her badminton racket. After a long maternity break, she once again became interested in playing the sporty version of badminton. The now mother of two topped her comeback in 2004 with numerous German age group titles and promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga with the TV Dillingen team. Now, in 2025, it’s finally over for one of the district’s most successful athletes: the 58-year-old’s hips are literally no longer working.
