Marcelo Aguirre

Marcelo Aguirre (born January 21, 1993 in Asunción ) is a Paraguayan table tennis player . So far (as of 2019) he is the youngest table tennis player who has ever participated in the Olympic Games.

Career

Marcelo Aguirre qualified in 2008 to take part in the individual competition at the Beijing Olympic Games . He was then 15 years and 211 days old, making him the youngest table tennis player at the Olympic Games (as of 2019). He was eliminated in the preliminary round against the North Korean Jang Song-Man. In 2012 he went back to singles at the Olympic Games . Here he also lost the first game against Oleksandr Didukh from Ukraine.

Marcelo Aguirre was nominated for the table tennis world championships in 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013, but never came close to medal ranks. In 2011 he finished second in the singles of the Latin American Cup.

In the 2018/19 season he played in the German Bundesliga for TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau , after which he was signed by Werder Bremen .

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
PAR	Latin America Cup	2011	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	silver
PAR	Olympic games	2012	London	CLOSELY	last 128
PAR	Olympic games	2008	Beijing	CHN	Agony
PAR	PAN-American Games	2011	Guadalajara	MEX	Quarter finals
PAR	World Championship	2013	Paris	FRA	Agony	Agony
PAR	World Championship	2012	Dortmund	GER				49
PAR	World Championship	2010	Moscow	RUS				73
PAR	World Championship	2009	Yokohama	JPN	Agony	Agony
PAR	Youth World Championship	2010	Bratislava	SVK	last 16		Quarter finals
PAR	World Junior Circuit	2010	Buenos Aires	ARG	silver
PAR	World Junior Circuit	2010	Seligenstadt	GER	Quarter finals
PAR	World Junior Circuit	2009	Coquimbo	CHI	Quarter finals
PAR	World Junior Circuit	2009	Buenos Aires	ARG	silver
PAR	World Junior Circuit	2009	Hong Kong	HKG	Quarter finals
PAR	World Junior Circuit	2009	Cairo	EGY	Quarter finals
PAR	World Junior Circuit	2009	Doha	QAT	silver
PAR	World Junior Circuit	2009	Manama	BRN	Quarter finals
PAR	World Junior Circuit	2008	Cartegena de Indias	COL	gold
PAR	World Junior Circuit	2008	Doha	QAT	Semifinals
PAR	World Junior Circuit	2008	Manama	BRN	Quarter finals
PAR	World Junior Circuit	2007	San Salvador	ESA	Quarter finals
PAR	World Junior Circuit	2007	Cuenca	ECU	Quarter finals
PAR	World Junior Circuit	2007	Viña del Mar	CHI	gold
PAR	World Junior Circuit Finals	2009	Tokyo	JPN	Quarter finals

Web links

• Marcelo Aguirre in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait (accessed July 14, 2014)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Youngest participant (accessed on July 14, 2014)
2. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2019/4 page 6
3. ↑ ITTF database (accessed April 5, 2019)