Adham Sharara

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Adham Sharara, Mondial Ping 2013 .

Adham Sharara (born March 24, 1953 in Cairo ) was president of the world table tennis association ITTF from 1999 to 2014 .

Active and functionary

Adham Sharara grew up in Canada. At the age of ten he began playing table tennis. Nine years later he was called up to the national team of Canada. He later became the coach of the national team and general director of the Canadian table tennis association CTTA.

When Xu Yinsheng no longer ran for the office of ITTF President in 1999 , Sharara was elected to succeed him. He is considered reform-minded with the aim of making table tennis more understandable and attractive for viewers and the media. During his tenure, the table tennis ball was enlarged from 38 mm to 40 mm. The way of counting has also been reformed, a sentence ends at 11 points (previously at 21 points). In addition, the service rule was changed and speed gluing was banned in 2008 . In 2014 it was decided to reduce the number of participants in World Championships from 2016.

In September 2014, Shahara resigned from his position as ITTF President. His successor was his previous deputy, Thomas Weikert .

Adham Sharara founded the marketing company TMS in 2002. He came under fire because he transferred the marketing of the rights of the world association to TMS and thus obtained personal advantages.

"The international development of our sport and the safeguarding of table tennis as a core sport of the Olympic Games"

- Answer to the question about motivation as ITTF President

"The highlight for me is to have brought table tennis to all corners of the world through a very aggressive development program."

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In March 2019, the world association ITTF suspended Adham Sharara for a period of four years on the grounds that Sharara had violated his fiduciary duties during his tenure as ITTF President. As a result, the ITTF suffered losses and was damaged .

Private

Sharara comes from a diplomatic family. He is Canadian. He is an electrical engineer by profession. Since August 1982 he has been married to the ten-time Canadian champion Mariann Domonkos (* 1958 in Budapest).

swell

  • Friedhard Teuffel: Every year a reform , tischtennis magazine , 2006/3 pages 22–23
  • Friedhard Teuffel: Interview, tischtennis magazine , 2006/5, pages 40–42
  • Friedhard Teuffel: The diplomat can also fend off , table tennis magazine , 2013/7 pages 14–15

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SH: WM: ITTF decides to reduce participants from 2016 / mixed national doubles possible from 2015 , message from May 2, 2014 on tischtennis.de (accessed on March 30, 2019)
  2. ↑ Dietmar Fuchs and Sebastian Stiekel, dpa: Weikert elected World Table Tennis Association President. , Article from May 31, 2017 in the Frankfurter Rundschau (accessed March 30, 2019)
  3. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2017/6 page 34
  4. ↑ Before the World Cup in Düsseldorf: table tennis election campaign with hard bandages , focus.de May 21, 2017 (accessed on March 30, 2019)
  5. ↑ a b magazine tischtennis , 2013/7 page 15
  6. ↑ SH: ITTF suspends ex-President Sharara for four years - message from March 15, 2019 on tischtennis.de
  7. ↑ Table Tennis News, No. 130, November 1982, page 6 (accessed March 16, 2019)
Commons : Adham Sharara  - collection of images, videos and audio files
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SURNAME Sharara, Adham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian table tennis player and official
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo