Werner Schlager
Werner Schlager 
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| Werner Schlager | |
| Nation: |
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| Date of birth: | September 28, 1972 |
| Place of birth: | Wiener Neustadt |
| Playing hand: | Right handed |
| How to play: | Shakehand |
| Current world rankings : | 414 |
| Best world ranking : | 1 (June 2003) |
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Werner Schlager (born September 28, 1972 in Wiener Neustadt ) is an Austrian table tennis player .
Career
Schlager began playing table tennis when he was five. He found his training partner in his father ( Rudolf Schlager ) and his brother ( Harald Schlager ), who was also a top Austrian player. After numerous very good placements in single and double tournaments, as well as with his team SVS Niederösterreich , he became individual world champion in Paris in 2003 . He was the first Austrian since Richard Bergmann in 1937 and the last non-Chinese to date (February 2020) to succeed. At the same time, this also meant jumping to the top of the world rankings.
In 2003, Schlager was voted "Most Popular Foreign Sportsman" in China. In Austria he received the award for Austrian Sportsman of the Year and was honored with his own postage stamp - it is the first Austrian postage stamp dedicated to a living person (excluding heads of state).
Schlager is known as a clever tactician and dangerous server. He often scores points as a result of his varied serves through fast topspins from forehand and backhand close to the table. Werner Schlager is a Butterfly contract player and is currently (2008) playing with the butterfly blade “W. Schlager Carbon (FL) ”. He plays a Butterfly Tenergy 05 (2.1 millimeter sponge thickness) on the forehand and backhand. In 2008 he took part in the Olympic Games for the fourth time, but lost in the team competition together with Chen Weixing and Robert Gardos in the battle for the bronze medal.
In 2009 Schlager set up a table tennis center in Schwechat near Vienna, the Werner Schlager Academy . This training center was awarded the contract to hold the 2013 European Table Tennis Championships . It filed for bankruptcy in 2015 and ended operations in 2016.
successes
Werner Schlager before the 2012 Summer Olympics
- European Champions League winner : 2007/2008
- Individual: World Champion 2003 , 3rd place WM 1999 , 2nd place EM 2009 , 3rd place EM 2002 , 3rd place EM 2008 , 3rd place EM 2010
- Doubles: European Champion 2005 (with Karl Jindrak [AUT]), 2nd place EM 2008 (with Trinko Keen [NED]), 3rd place EM 1998 , 2000 , 2002 (each with Karl Jindrak [AUT]) and 2007 (with Patrick Chila [FRA])
- Mixed: European Champion 2003 (with Krisztina Tóth [HUN]), 3rd place EM 2002 and EM 2005 (each with Liu Jia [AUT])
- Team: 3rd place EM 2002 , 2nd place EM 2005 , 3rd place EM 2008 , 3rd place EM 2011 , 4th place Olympia 2008, several European and Champions League finals.
- Winner of the European ranking tournament Europe TOP-12 in 2000 and 2008
- over 20 Austrian championship titles
Awards
- 2000: Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria
- 2003: Austrian Sportsman of the Year
- 2003: Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria
- 2003: A 55-cent postage stamp with the image of Werner Schlager appears on September 28th, he is the first Austrian athlete on a postage stamp.
societies
- All-round Wiener Neustadt
- ASKÖ Grimmenstein
- ASKÖ TTV Hornstein
- Viennese sports club
- SV Schwechat
- Eden Vienna
- SVS Lower Austria
Private
Schlager lives with Bettina Müller, with whom he has a son and a daughter.
Results from the ITTF database
| Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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| AUT | European Championship | 2010 | Ostrava | CZE | Semifinals | |||
| AUT | European Championship | 2009 | Stuttgart | GER | silver | |||
| AUT | European Championship | 2008 | St. Petersburg | RUS | Semifinals | silver | ||
| AUT | European Championship | 2007 | Belgrade | SRB | Semifinals | |||
| AUT | European Championship | 2005 | Aarhus | THE | last 16 | gold | Semifinals | 2 |
| AUT | European Championship | 2003 | Courmayeur | ITA | Semifinals | gold | ||
| AUT | European Championship | 2002 | Zagreb | HRV | Semifinals | Quarter finals | Semifinals | |
| AUT | European Championship | 2000 | Bremen | GER | Semifinals | |||
| AUT | European Championship | 1998 | Eindhoven | NED | last 16 | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | European Youth Championship (Juniors) | 1989 | Kockelschever | LUX | silver | |||
| AUT | EURO TOP12 | 2011 | Liege | BEL | 3rd place | |||
| AUT | EURO TOP12 | 2010 | Dusseldorf | GER | 9th place | |||
| AUT | EURO TOP12 | 2008 | Frankfurt | GER | 1st place | |||
| AUT | EURO TOP12 | 2007 | Arezzo | ITA | 5th place | |||
| AUT | EURO TOP12 | 2006 | Copenhagen | THE | 2 | |||
| AUT | EURO TOP12 | 2005 | Rennes | FRA | 5th place | |||
| AUT | EURO TOP12 | 2004 | Frankfurt | GER | 2 | |||
| AUT | EURO TOP12 | 2003 | Saarbrücken | GER | 3rd place | |||
| AUT | EURO TOP12 | 2002 | Rotterdam | NED | 9 | |||
| AUT | EURO TOP12 | 2001 | catfish | AUT | 5 | |||
| AUT | EURO TOP12 | 2000 | Alassio | ITA | 1 | |||
| AUT | EURO TOP12 | 1998 | Halmstad | SWE | 11 | |||
| AUT | Olympic games | 2008 | Beijing | CHN | last 16 | 4th | ||
| AUT | Olympic games | 2004 | Athens | GRE | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Olympic games | 2000 | Sydney | OUT | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Olympic games | 1996 | Atlanta | United States | immediately excluded | immediately excluded | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2010 | catfish | AUT | last 32 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2009 | Wakayama | JPN | Semifinals | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2008 | Salzburg | AUT | Quarter finals | 1 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2008 | Daejeon | COR | last 16 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2008 | Yokohama | JPN | last 16 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2008 | Doha | QAT | last 64 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2008 | Kuwait City | KUW | last 16 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2008 | Velenje | SVN | last 32 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2007 | catfish | AUT | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2007 | St. Petersburg | RUS | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2007 | Chiba | JPN | last 16 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2007 | Salwa Cup | KUW | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2007 | Doha | QAT | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2007 | Zagreb | HRV | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2006 | Warsaw | POLE | Semifinals | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2006 | Bayreuth | GER | last 64 | gold | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2006 | St. Petersburg | RUS | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2006 | Yokohama | JPN | last 32 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2006 | Guangzhou | CHN | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2006 | Singapore | SIN | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2006 | Kuwait City | KUW | Quarter finals | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2006 | Doha | QAT | last 32 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2006 | Zagreb | HRV | last 16 | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2005 | Gothenburg | SWE | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2005 | Magdeburg | GER | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2005 | St. Petersburg | RUS | last 64 | gold | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2005 | Yokohama | JPN | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2005 | Suncheon | COR | Semifinals | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2005 | Zagreb | HRV | silver | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2004 | St. Petersburg | RUS | Quarter finals | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2004 | catfish | AUT | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2004 | Leipzig | GER | last 16 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2004 | Kobe | JPN | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2004 | Chicago | United States | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2004 | Rio de Janeiro | BRA | silver | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2004 | Cairo | EGY | silver | silver | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2004 | Athens | GRE | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2004 | Croatia | HRV | gold | silver | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2003 | Malmo | SWE | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2003 | Aarhus | THE | last 64 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2003 | Bremen | GER | last 32 | silver | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2003 | Johor Bahru | MAS | last 16 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2003 | Kobe | JPN | last 16 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2003 | Rio | BRA | last 16 | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2003 | Doha | QAT | Semifinals | silver | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2003 | Croatia | HRV | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2002 | Farum | THE | Semifinals | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2002 | Warsaw | POLE | silver | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2002 | Eindhoven | NED | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2002 | Magdeburg | GER | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2002 | Kobe | JPN | last 64 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2002 | Gangneung City | COR | gold | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2002 | São Paulo | BRA | gold | gold | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2002 | Fort Lauderdale | United States | Semifinals | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2002 | Doha | QAT | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2002 | Cairo | EGY | Semifinals | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2002 | catfish | AUT | Semifinals | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2001 | Farum | THE | Quarter finals | Rd 1 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2001 | Skovde | SWE | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2001 | Bayreuth | GER | silver | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2001 | Yokohama | JPN | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2001 | Seoul | COR | last 32 | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2001 | Fort Lauderdale | United States | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2001 | São Paulo | BRA | Semifinals | gold | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2001 | Zagreb | HRV | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2001 | Doha | QAT | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2001 | Chatham | CLOSELY | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2000 | Farum | THE | silver | gold | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2000 | Umeå | SWE | Semifinals | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2000 | Warsaw | POLE | Quarter finals | silver | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2000 | Rio de Janeiro | BRA | Quarter finals | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2000 | Fort Lauderdale | United States | Semifinals | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1999 | Prague | CZE | last 16 | gold | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1999 | Linz / Wels | AUT | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1999 | Bremen | GER | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1999 | Melbourne | OUT | Semifinals | gold | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1999 | Rio de Janeiro | BRA | last 16 | silver | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1999 | Zagreb | HRV | silver | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1999 | Hopton-on-Sea | CLOSELY | Semifinals | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1999 | Doha | QAT | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1998 | Sundsvall | SWE | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1998 | Belgrade | YUG | Quarter finals | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1998 | Courmayeur | ITA | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1998 | Beirut | LIB | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1998 | Ji 'Nan City | CHN | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1998 | Melbourne | OUT | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1998 | Wakayama | JPN | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1998 | Kota Kinabalu | MAS | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1998 | Zagreb | HRV | last 32 | gold | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1998 | Doha | QAT | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1997 | Lyon | FRA | Scratched | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1997 | Linz | AUT | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1997 | Belgrade | YUG | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1997 | Gdańsk | POLE | last 32 | gold | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1997 | Ipoh | MAS | Semifinals | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1997 | Melbourne | OUT | Quarter finals | silver | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1997 | Doha | QAT | Rd 1 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1997 | Kettering | CLOSELY | Quarter finals | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1996 | Belgrade | YUG | Semifinals | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1996 | Brisbane | OUT | gold | gold | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1996 | Fort Lauderdale | United States | Quarter finals | gold | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1996 | Kitaku-Shu | JPN | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1996 | Kettering | CLOSELY | Quarter finals | gold | ||
| AUT | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2006 | Hong Kong | HKG | last 16 | |||
| AUT | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2005 | Fuzhou | CHN | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2004 | Beijing | CHN | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2003 | Guangzhou | CHN | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2002 | Stockholm | SWE | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2001 | Hainan | CHN | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2000 | Kobe City | JPN | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 1999 | Sydney | OUT | Semifinals | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 1998 | Paris | FRA | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 1997 | Hong Kong | HKG | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 1996 | Tian Jin | CHN | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | World Championship | 2010 | Moscow | RUS | 10 | |||
| AUT | World Championship | 2008 | Guangzhou | CHN | 9 | |||
| AUT | World Championship | 2007 | Zagreb | HRV | last 128 | last 64 | last 32 | |
| AUT | World Championship | 2006 | Bremen | GER | 8th | |||
| AUT | World Championship | 2005 | Shanghai | CHN | last 64 | last 32 | Quarter finals | |
| AUT | World Championship | 2004 | Doha | QAT | 6th | |||
| AUT | World Championship | 2003 | Paris | FRA | gold | Quarter finals | last 16 | |
| AUT | World Championship | 2001 | Osaka | JPN | last 16 | last 16 | last 32 | 5 |
| AUT | World Championship | 2000 | Kuala Lumpur | MAS | 9-12 | |||
| AUT | World Championship | 1999 | Eindhoven | NED | Semifinals | Quarter finals | last 128 | |
| AUT | World Championship | 1997 | Manchester | CLOSELY | last 16 | Quarter finals | last 16 | 10 |
| AUT | World Championship | 1995 | Tianjin | CHN | last 128 | last 32 | last 32 | 9 |
| AUT | World Championship | 1993 | Gothenburg | SWE | last 64 | last 64 | no participants | 9 |
| AUT | World Championship | 1991 | Chiba City | JPN | last 128 | Agony | Agony | 9 |
| AUT | World cup | 2010 | Magdeburg | GER | 9-12. space | |||
| AUT | World cup | 2009 | Moscow | RUS | 9-12. space | |||
| AUT | World cup | 2008 | Liege | BEL | 5-8. space | |||
| AUT | World cup | 2007 | Barcelona | ESP | 5-8. space | |||
| AUT | World cup | 2006 | Paris | FRA | 5-8. space | |||
| AUT | World cup | 2004 | Hangzhou | CHN | 5-8. space | |||
| AUT | World cup | 2003 | Jiangyin | CHN | 9-12. space | |||
| AUT | World cup | 2002 | Jinan | CHN | 4th Place | |||
| AUT | World cup | 2001 | Courmayeur | ITA | 5-8. space | |||
| AUT | World cup | 2000 | Yangzhou | CHN | 9-12. space | |||
| AUT | World cup | 1999 | Xiaolan | 0 | silver | |||
| AUT | WTC World Team Cup | 2010 | Dubai | UAE | 3rd place | |||
| AUT | WTC World Team Cup | 2009 | Linz | AUT | 5th place | |||
| AUT | WTC World Team Cup | 2007 | Magdeburg | GER | 3 | |||
| AUT | WTC World Team Cup | 1995 | Atlanta | United States | 9 | |||
| AUT | WTC World Team Cup | 1994 | Nimes | FRA | 9 | |||
| AUT | WTC World Team Cup | 1991 | Barcelona | ESP | 5 |
philately
On September 25, 2003, Österreichische Post AG issued a multi-colored postage stamp with a picture of Werner Schlager and the text "Table tennis world champion 2003" at a face value of EUR 0.55 ( Michel catalog no. 2698). The circulation of the postage stamp, which was printed in countersink of 50 pieces using halftone gravure, was 700,000 pieces. On this stamp the text was also printed in Chinese characters. Ms. Renate Gruber designed this stamp. Cutted black prints of this stamp that are not valid for postage exist.
On the first day of this stamp a special postmark was used with a picture of a table tennis racket and a table tennis net as well as the text "Werner Schlager Tischtennis Weltmeister 2003, 09/25/2013 1150 Vienna".
On September 26, 2003, a special stamp with the picture of Werner Schlager and the text "Werner Schlager Table Tennis World Champion 2003, SVS Lower Austria, September 26, 2003 * 2320 Schwechat" was used.
literature
- Werner Schlager with Martin Sörös: Match ball. Dreams and triumphs . Ueberreuter, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-8000-7152-5 . (with DVD video)
- Olaf Brockmann: The chaotic artist: Werner Schlager . In: DTS magazine . 1991/1, pages 8-10.
- Werner Schlager / Bernd-Ulrich Groß: "Table tennis perfect" Meyer & Meyer Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89899-573-3
Web links
Commons : Werner Schlager - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Literature by and about Werner Schlager in the catalog of the German National Library
- Werner Schlager biography on the website of the table tennis world association ittf.com (English) (accessed on August 5, 2011)
Individual evidence
- ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed on May 1, 2018).
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2009/11 page 25
- ↑ Table tennis EM 2013 in Schlager-Akademie Schwechat in the Kleine Zeitung-Kleinen Zeitung from September 15, 2010 accessed on September 19, 2010 ( Memento from August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Table tennis: Werner Schlager Academy filed for bankruptcy in the Tiroler Tageszeitung on December 9, 2015, accessed on March 4, 2020.
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2009/10 page 7
- ↑ Werner Schlager Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 14, 2011)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schlager, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiener Neustadt |