Karin Suter-Erath

{{short description|Swiss para badminton player}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1970|11|24|df=y}}

| birth_place = Basel, Switzerland

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{{Medal|Competition|Paralympic Games}}

{{Medal|Bronze|2004 Athens|Women's doubles}}

{{Medal|Sport|Para badminton}}

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{{Medal|Competition|World Championships}}

{{Medal|Gold|2011 Guatemala City|Women's doubles}}

{{Medal|Gold|2013 Dortmund|Women's singles}}

{{Medal|Silver|2011 Guatemala City|Women's singles }}

{{Medal|Silver|2013 Dortmund|Women's doubles }}

{{Medal|Bronze|2011 Guatemala City|Mixed doubles }}

{{Medal|Bronze|2013 Dortmund|Mixed doubles }}

{{Medal|Bronze|2015 Stoke Mandeville|Women's singles }}

{{Medal|Bronze|2019 Basel|Women's singles }}

{{Medal|Competition|European Championships}}

{{Medal|Gold|2012 Dortmund|Women's singles }}

{{Medal|Gold|2012 Dortmund|Mixed doubles }}

{{Medal|Gold|2014 Murcia|Women's singles }}

{{Medal|Gold|2014 Murcia|Women's doubles }}

{{Medal|Gold|2014 Murcia|Mixed doubles }}

{{Medal|Gold|2016 Beek|Women's singles }}

{{Medal|Gold|2016 Beek|Women's doubles }}

{{Medal|Gold|2016 Beek|Mixed doubles }}

{{Medal|Gold|2016 Rodez|Women's doubles }}

{{Medal|Silver|2010 Manchester|Women's singles }}

{{Medal|Silver|2012 Dortmund|Women's doubles }}

{{Medal|Silver|2018 Rodez|Women's singles }}

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Karin Suter-Erath (born 24 November 1970) is a Swiss para badminton player and a former wheelchair tennis player.{{Cite web|url=https://www.paralympic.org/karin-suter-erath|title=Karin Suter-Erath - Athlete Bio|last=|first=|date=3 July 2019|website=International Paralympic Committee|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.passionatepeople.invacare.eu.com/karin-suter-erath-the-epitome-of-para-sportswoman/|title=Karen Suter-Erath: The epitome of a para-sportswoman|last=|first=|date=3 July 2019|website=Passionate People|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}

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.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=3 July 2019 |title=Karin Suter-Erath - Swiss Paralympic (in German) |url=http://www.swissparalympic.ch/athleten-archiv/karin-suter-erath/ |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date= |website=Swiss Paralympic Committee}} 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.{{Cite web |last=Griffin |first=Bobby |date=3 July 2019 |title=Suter-Erath in the hunt for another title |url=http://badmintoneurope.com/cms/default.aspx?clubid=4685&m=7734005&pageid=5381&cmsid=239 |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date= |website=Badminton Europe}}