Anatoly Viktorovich Strokatov

Anatoly Wiktorowitsch Strokatow ( Russian Анатолий Викторович Строкатов ; born March 10, 1955 in Lvov ) is a Soviet table tennis player who had his peak in the 1970s. He is vice European champion in singles and vice world champion in mixed.

Career

Strokatow recorded his first international successes at the European Youth Championships in 1971 and 1972, where he won a total of six titles. In 1971 he won all kinds of titles in Ostend: singles, doubles with Wiktor Fursow, mixed with Elmira Antonyan and team competition. A year later he was defeated in the individual final to the Yugoslav Miran Savnic. He defended the title in doubles with Wiktor Fursow and in mixed with Elmira Antonyan.

Strokatow was USSR individual champion in 1976. From 1971 to 1978 he took part in three European championships and four world championships . At the European Championships in 1976 he was second in the individual. He lost in the final against French Jacques Secrétin . In 1978 he reached the semi-finals in mixed with Valentina Popova .

At the 1973 World Cup , he won silver in a mixed with Asta Stankene-Gedraitite behind Liang Geliang / Li Li from China. The best placement at the European ranking tournament TOP-12 came in 1976 and 1977 with sixth place each, in 1976 he was champion of the Soviet Union.

When he returned from the European Championship in Germany in 1978, one hundred undeclared US dollars were found on him. In addition to an accusation of smuggling, he was not awarded the title of Master of Sports, which is otherwise common among internationally successful athletes, for this incident . As a further consequence, a travel ban was imposed on him in 1981, in other sources the reason given was the smuggling of jeans. In 1984 he moved to Czechoslovakia and played there for five years for a Soviet military team. Subsequently, began to work as a trainer in the army in Leningrad. However, due to differences in the terms of the contract, it was terminated. He still played for a team in Lublin, Poland, and finally ended his career in 1992.

In the USSR rankings Strokatow finished first in 1976, in the ITTF world rankings he was eleventh in mid-1976.

Private

Strokatow lives and works in Lwow (as of 2009). He was in a relationship with his twin partner Valentina Popova for three years, and ended the relationship shortly before the planned marriage. In December 1981 he married Larissa, with whom he has a daughter. He runs a company that manufactures and sells canned food.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
URS	European Championship	1978	Duisburg	FRG			Semifinals
URS	European Championship	1976	Prague	TCH	silver	Quarter finals
URS	European Championship	1974	Novi Sad	YUG	last 16		Quarter finals
URS	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1972	Vejle	THE	silver	gold	gold
URS	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1971	East End	BEL	gold	gold	gold	1
URS	EURO TOP12	1978	Prague	TCH	9
URS	EURO TOP12	1977	Sarajevo	YUG	6th
URS	EURO TOP12	1976	Lübeck	FRG	6th
URS	EURO TOP12	1975	Vienna	AUT	11
URS	World Championship	1977	Birmingham	CLOSELY	last 32	last 64	last 16	7th
URS	World Championship	1975	Calcutta	IND	last 64	last 32	last 16	7th
URS	World Championship	1973	Sarajevo	YUG	last 64	last 16	silver	4th
URS	World Championship	1971	Nagoya	JPN	last 128	last 64	Scratched

Individual evidence

1. ↑ table tennis - bulletin of the German Table Tennis Association of the GDR, 1976/3 p. 4
2. ^ 1978 Duisburg (Results) ( English , PDF; 237 kB) 1978. Archived from the original on October 17, 2013. Retrieved on 2016-17-01.
3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1981/4 p. 6
4. ↑ ^{a b} Василий Танкевич (Vasily Tankevich): ”Звания не дали, потому что приписали мне контрабанду.ua” ( Russian ) Газета.ua.ua ( Russian ) Газета.ua. Retrieved October 12, 2010.
5. ↑ table tennis - newsletter of the German Table Tennis Association of the GDR, 1977/4 S. 17
6. ↑ World rankings 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 19, 2011)  
7. ^ Anatoli Wiktorowitsch Strokatow Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 15, 2011)

Web links

• Brief portrait (Russian) (accessed on September 16, 2010)
• Results of the European Championships for adults (accessed on January 11, 2016)
• European Youth Championships (accessed January 7, 2016)