Andras Podpinka

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Andras Podpinka (born April 16, 1968 in Budapest ) is a Belgian table tennis player born in Hungary . He won silver at the 2001 World Cup with the Belgian team. In the 1990s he played in the German Bundesliga .

Career

Andras Podpinka was born in Hungary in 1968. He started playing table tennis at the Spartacus Budapest club, and later switched to FÖV Vizmüvek. In 1985 he took part in the World Championship for adults in Gothenburg under the flag of Hungary .

In 1985 he emigrated to Belgium and took Belgian citizenship. Thus he was eligible to play internationally for Belgium. After a year-long stint at the Dutch club TTV Avanti Hazerswoude, he moved to the Belgian club Royal Villette Charleroi .

From 1989 to 2001 Andras Podpinka took part in another seven world championships , this time for Belgium. He reached the 2001 World Cup in team competition, the final, which was lost to China.

In 1989 he was signed by the German Bundesliga club ATSV Saarbrücken . In August 1989 he was granted German citizenship (in addition to Belgian), which meant that the Saarbrücken team "saved" a place for foreigners. In 1991 he returned to Royal Villette Charleroi after a "game of confusion" due to an unresolved contractual situation . With this club he was twice Belgian team champion before he joined the TTC drawbridge Grenzau in 1993 and with this became German champion in 1994. In 1997 he moved to the second division VfB Lübeck and helped them to rise.

The other club stations are

  • 1998–2000 Wolkersdorf-St. / later SVS Lower Austria (Austria)
  • 2000–2002 DJK Offenburg
  • 2002–2004 Immo Mortsel (Belgium)
  • 2004–2005 Kecskeméti Spartacus (Hungary)
  • 2005–2006 Ceglédi VSE (Hungary)
  • 2006 - ???? UTTC Raiffeisen Kennelbach (Austria) xxx STTV tt-Rundschau 0607-10 xxx
  • ???? - 2009 CVSE Celldömölk (Hungary)
  • 2009–2011 TV Hilpoltstein, 2nd Bundesliga South
  • 2011 – today SC Fürstenfeldbruck , 2nd Bundesliga

Private

Andras Podpinka is a nephew of the Hungarian table tennis player Tibor Klampár . His brother Gabor also played for the TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau in the mid-1990s . He has a daughter with his partner.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
BEL European Championship 1994 Birmingham CLOSELY last 16
BEL Pro tour 2002 catfish AUT last 64
BEL Pro tour 2001 Bayreuth GER last 64
BEL Pro tour 2000 Zagreb HRV last 32 Rd 1
BEL Pro tour 1999 Linz / Wels AUT Rd 1 Rd 1
BEL Pro tour 1998 Sundsvall SWE last 32
BEL Pro tour 1998 Courmayeur ITA Rd 1
BEL Pro tour 1997 Squid SWE last 16
BEL Pro tour 1997 Zhuhai CHN Rd 1
BEL Pro tour 1997 Chiba JPN last 16
BEL Pro tour 1997 Doha QAT last 16 Rd 1
BEL World Championship 2001 Osaka JPN last 64 Scratched last 128 2
BEL World Championship 2000 Kuala Lumpur MAS 9-12
BEL World Championship 1999 Eindhoven NED last 128 last 32 no participants
BEL World Championship 1997 Manchester CLOSELY last 64 last 32 no participants 8th
BEL World Championship 1995 Tianjin CHN last 64 last 64 no participants 8th
BEL World Championship 1993 Gothenburg SWE Quarter finals last 64 no participants 6th
BEL World Championship 1989 Dortmund FRG last 128 last 64 Agony 11
HUN World Championship 1985 Gothenburg SWE last 32 Agony last 64 13
BEL WTC World Team Cup 1995 Atlanta United States 9
BEL WTC World Team Cup 1994 Nimes FRA 3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tischtennis magazine , 1986/12 page 21
  2. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 1989/7 page 20 + 1989/8 page 26
  3. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 1989/9 page 4
  4. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 1991/8 page 16 + 1991/10 page 12
  5. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 1993/4 page 12
  6. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 1997/8 page 16
  7. ↑ Table tennis archive Hans-Albert Meyer, 2nd Bundesliga men 1981-2000 (accessed on March 19, 2014)
  8. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2000/6 page 25 + 2002/10 page 11 + 2002/11 page 27
  9. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2002/11 page 27
  10. ↑ Change of club Celldömölk to Hilpoltstein on tischtennis.de ( memento from March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on March 19, 2014)
  11. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 1985/4 page 42
  12. ↑ Andras Podpinka Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on March 19, 2014)

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personal data
SURNAME Podpinka, Andras
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest