Štefan Kollárovits

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Štefan Kollárovits (born May 11, 1945 in Bratislava ) is a former Czechoslovak table tennis player . He won bronze in singles at the 1966 European Championships .

Career

Štefan Kollárovits started playing table tennis in 1959 at the STO Štart VD Bratislava club. Under the guidance of coaches František Tokár and P. Krchňák, he developed into one of the top players in Czechoslovakia. In 1965 he moved to the Slavia Prague club because of his studies . In 1966 he won the national championship of the CSSR, in the same year he was placed first on the CSSR rankings.

From 1963 to 1971 he took part in all five world championships . He finished fifth with the team in 1965 and 1967 .

At the European Championships in 1966 he reached the semi-finals in singles after victories over Istvan Korpa (Yugoslavia), Felix Felten (Luxembourg), Pentii Tuominen (Finland), Stuart Gibbs (England) and Dorin Giurgiucă (Romania), where he won the eventual European champion Kjell Johansson was subject. In 1964 and 1972 he was involved in the team's bronze medal. In 1969 he was ranked 22nd in the ITTF world rankings .

Štefan Kollárovits graduated from the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport at Charles University in Prague . Later he acquired the trainer's license A. From 1973 Kollárovits worked in Austria as a trainer for ÖTTV or the Vienna Table Tennis Association. In 1975 he joined the Viennese club ABC Komperdell as a player-coach. From 1991 Kollárovits worked in Vienna as an international manager for the ŠKST Sporiteľňa Bratislava.

In 1992 Štefan Kollárovits returned to Slovakia and took over the office of President of ŠKST Sporiteľňa Bratislava. From 1993 to 2005 he was also director of marketing and sponsorship of the club of medalists at world and European championships. After the Sparkasse (Sporiteľňa) left the main sponsor, the club was named ŠKST Bratislava from 2002. After the 2002/03 season, the ŠKST Bratislava got out of the super league and was then bought by the entrepreneur Štefan Kobes. In 2003 the term of office of Štefan Kollárovits as President of ŠKST Bratislava ended, his successor was the club owner Štefan Kobes. Štefan Kollárovits is a member of the Swaythling Club International committee .

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
TCH European Championship 1968 Lyon FRA last 16 Quarter finals
TCH European Championship 1966 London CLOSELY Semifinals
TCH EURO TOP12 1971 Zadar YUG 11
TCH World Championship 1971 Nagoya JPN last 32 last 16 no participants 11
TCH World Championship 1969 Munich FRG last 64 Agony no participants 7th
TCH World Championship 1967 Stockholm SWE last 128 last 64 no participants 5
TCH World Championship 1965 Ljubljana YUG Agony last 32 no participants 5
TCH World Championship 1963 Prague TCH last 64 last 64 last 128

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1965/19 page 16
  2. ^ DTS magazine , 1966/9 page 28
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1966/16 page 27
  4. ↑ table tennis show 1966/3 (May) Page 11: Results of the European Championship 1966 (accessed on February 18, 2014)
  5. ↑ ITTF world rankings from 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 18, 2014)
  6. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1976/2 Page 18
  7. ↑ N.Ö. Table tennis news 1986/07 page 26
  8. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from February 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Štefan Kollárovits results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on February 18, 2014)

Publications

  • Zoltán Kollárovits, Štefan Kollárovits: Stolný tenis , Edícia akozacat sport, Bratislava 1984

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personal data
SURNAME Kollárovits, Štefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava