Alan Cooke

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Alan Cooke (born March 23, 1966 ) is an English table tennis player . At the age of 40, Cooke, who retired from active sport in 1998, is still number one in the English rankings. He is currently playing in Switzerland for CTT Meyrin (AGTT) in the National League A.

At the senior world championships in table tennis (May 15-20, 2006 in Bremen), in which he was entitled to participate for the first time, he was individual world champion in the senior 40 class. After his surprisingly clear 3-0 success (12:10 , 11: 7, 11: 7) in the semifinals over the defending champion of the 40th class, Mikael Appelgren (Sweden), he was also just 3-2 (11: 4, 9:11, 13:11, 7th in the final) : 11, 11: 8) against Peter Aranyosi (Hungary).

Greatest successes

  • Six-time English champion in men's singles
  • Nine-time English champion in men's doubles
  • One-time Commonwealth Champion in men's singles
  • Four-time Commonwealth Champion in team competition
  • Two-time vice-European champion with the team
  • Bronze medalist with the team in the World Team Cup
  • Participation in world championships seven times (1985–1997)
  • Senior world champion in singles in the senior 40 class

societies

  • Malmo FF (1993)

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
CLOSELY  Commonwealth Championship  2004  Kuala Lumpur  MAS       silver   
CLOSELY  Commonwealth Championship  1997  Glasgow  SCO   silver  silver    1
CLOSELY  Commonwealth Championship  1995  Singapore  SIN   silver       
CLOSELY  Commonwealth Championship  1994  Hyderabad  IND   silver      1
CLOSELY  Commonwealth Championship  1989  Cardiff  WHALE   gold      1
CLOSELY  Commonwealth Championship  1985  Douglas  IMN   silver      1
CLOSELY  European Championship  1992  Stuttgart  GER         2
CLOSELY  European Championship  1990  Gothenburg  SWE   Quarter finals  Quarter finals     
CLOSELY  European Championship  1988  Paris  FRA         2
GBR  Olympic games  1992  Barcelona  ESP   no participants  immediately excluded     
GBR  Olympic games  1988  Seoul  COR   immediately excluded  immediately excluded     
CLOSELY  Pro tour  2005  Velenje  SVN   Quarter finals       
CLOSELY  Pro tour  1997  Kettering  CLOSELY   Rd 1  Rd 1     
CLOSELY  World Championship  1997  Manchester  CLOSELY   last 128  last 128  no participants  14th 
CLOSELY  World Championship  1995  Tianjin  CHN   last 128  last 32  no participants  13 
CLOSELY  World Championship  1993  Gothenburg  SWE   last 64  last 64  no participants  12 
CLOSELY  World Championship  1991  Chiba City  JPN   last 64  last 64  no participants  10 
CLOSELY  World Championship  1989  Dortmund  FRG   last 64  Quarter finals  no participants  9 
CLOSELY  World Championship  1987  New Delhi  IND   last 16  Agony  no participants  12 
CLOSELY  World Championship  1985  Gothenburg  SWE   last 128  last 64  last 64  10 
CLOSELY  WTC World Team Cup  1994  Nimes  FRA         5 
CLOSELY  WTC World Team Cup  1991  Barcelona  ESP         5 
CLOSELY  WTC World Team Cup  1990  Hokkaido, Aomori, Niig  JPN         3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ITTF statistics ( Memento from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 5, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Cooke, Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1966