Alena Šafářová

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Alena Šafářová , married Suchánková , (born April 17, 1968 in Žďár nad Sázavou ) is a Czech table tennis player who was internationally active in the 1980s and 1990s. She took part in three world championships, four European championships and in the 1988 Olympic Games and won two silver medals in team competitions.

Career

Šafářová played for the Prague sports club DSO Slovan Orbis from his youth . The student team from the Prague district of Nusle , made up of Zuzana Valentová, Alena and Barbora Šafářová , prevailed in the 1979/80 and 1980/81 national championships against older teams. 1981/82 entered the Nusler women's team, consisting of the students or young players Valentová, Alena and Barbora Šafářová, at the national championships in the first division and came in second. 1987/88 reached the ladies of the DSO Slovan Orbis in the line-up Alena Šafářová, Zuzana Valentová, Dana Kressová and Pavla Rampová in the 1st league in 3rd place. After the Slovan Orbis Prague sports club joined the Sokol , its table tennis department became the TJ Sokol Nusle. 1990/91 came the A-team of the women of the TJ Sokol Nusle (Šafářová, Kressová, Daniela Davídková and Petra Hošková) on the second place in the national 1st division. In the ETTU Cup, the team Šafářová, Kressová and Davídková came third.

Alena Šafářová achieved her first international success in 1985 at the European Youth Championships in The Hague. Here she became European champion with the team. In 1987, 1989 and 1991 she took part in the world championships , where two seventh and one ninth place jumped out in the team competition. She was more successful at European championships . In 1986 she reached the semi-finals with the team as well as in mixed with Milan Orlowski , in 1988 and 1990 she came second with the team, in 1994 she reached the quarter-finals in doubles with Alena Vachovcová . She showed that Alena Šafářová belongs to the top of Europe at the European ranking tournaments EURO-TOP12 . Here it was eighth in 1988, fourth in 1989 and fifth in 1990 and 1991.

In 1988 she qualified for participation in the individual competition of the Olympic Games . Here she failed in the group matches, the three wins over Gordana Perkučin (Yugoslavia), Hae-Ja Kim de Rimasa (Argentina) and Nihal Meshref (Egypt) were faced with two defeats against Bettine Vriesekoop (Netherlands) and Daniela Gergeltschewa (Bulgaria).

In the ITTF world rankings , she was ranked 22nd in 1989.

In 1991 Alena Šafářová moved to TuS Glane in the German Bundesliga after 13 years at the Czech club Sokol Nusle Prague . Further stations in Germany were the clubs TSV Röthenbach (1992/93), SV Casino Kleinwalsertal (1993/94), VfB Lübeck (1994–1997) and Rot-Weiß Klettham-Erding (1997/98). In 1997 she became German champion with Lübeck. In 1998 she joined the Austrian club SV Oberndorf.

Private

At the beginning of 1990 Alena Šafářová married the table tennis manager Daniel Suchanek. Around 2005 she worked in a table tennis school on Sylt.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1991/8 page 46
  2. ↑ Results from the ITTF database ( Memento from January 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 22, 2017)
  3. ↑ History of TJ Sokol Nusle (accessed on January 28, 2017)
  4. ↑ World ranking list 1947 - 2001 ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 22, 2017)
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1991/6 page 9
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1992/8 page 40
  7. ↑ DTS magazine , 1993/6 page 23
  8. ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/8 page 19
  9. ↑ DTS magazine , 1997/6 page 23
  10. ↑ Table tennis archive of Hans-Albert Meyer (accessed on January 22, 2017)
  11. ↑ DTS magazine , 1998/6 page 8
  12. ↑ DTS magazine , 1991/10 page 28
  13. ↑ MICHAEL THALKEN: Ping- pong artistry at its best , article in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger on May 23, 2005 (accessed on January 22, 2017)

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personal data
SURNAME Šafářová, Alena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Safarova, Alena; Suchanek, Alena (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Žďár nad Sázavou