Andreas Vevera

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Andreas Vevera Table tennis player
Andreas Vevera
Andreas Vevera with the gold medal from the Beijing 2008 Summer Paralympics
Nation: AustriaAustria Austria
Date of birth: September 24, 1971
Place of birth: Vienna
1st professional season: BSV Weißer Hof
Playing hand: Right handed
How to play: Shakehand
Best world ranking : 1st place

Andreas Vevera (born September 24, 1971 ) is an Austrian table tennis player. At the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing , he won a gold medal in table tennis singles .

Life

Vevera has been paraplegic since a motorboat accident in May 1988 and is in a wheelchair . While on vacation in the Mediterranean, he had chartered a motorboat and sat on a sandbank . His father was able to save his life, but he suffered a fractured cervical vertebra in the accident , which has since then completely paralyzed his legs and stomach, and some arms and neck. His football career , he was a striker (shirt number 11) at the Wiener Sport-Club , was over. In addition to the pain, the injuries also caused breathing and circulatory problems. In AUVA Rehabilitation Center White court he had in months of convalescence learn or relearn new so obvious things like breathing, eating, drinking, dressing and writing. There he found his love for wheelchair table tennis and in 1989 his first trainer Rudolf Hajek .
Vevera has been training with Doris Mader since 2003 and has enjoyed great success together ever since.

He found a new job as a secretary in an integration school with 100 disabled and 200 non-disabled children. In terms of sport, he then concentrated on playing table tennis. The right-hander is in the A-squad of the Austrian national team and plays for BSV Weißer Hof, which is based in Klosterneuburg . In October 2006 he was runner-up at the World Championships in Switzerland and was thus number 1 in the world rankings in handicap class 1. At the 2008 Summer Paralympics , he won gold ahead of Koreans Jae-Kwan Cho (silver) and Hae-Kon Lee (Bronze).

From 2002 to 2019 he led the table tennis club BSV Weißer Hof very successfully (won over 150 medals) and from 2005 to 2013 he played in the Austrian national para table tennis team.

Andreas Vevera at the award ceremony - Paralympics 2008

successes

  • Paralympic winner: 2008
  • European Champion: 2007, 2011
  • Vice World Champion: 2006
  • Vice European Champion: 2009
  • Vice-Team European Champion: 2007
  • 3rd place World Championship: 2010
  • 3rd place European team championship: 2009, 2011, 2013
  • 4th place team Olympia: 2008, 2012
  • 4th place team world championship: 2006, 2010
  • 5th place Olympia: 2012
  • 5th place European Championships: 2013
  • Tetra Open Cologne Winner: 2006 (largest Tetra TT tournament in the world)
  • 9 times Austrian national champion in singles: 1992, 1994, 1998, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
  • 7 times Austrian national champion in mixed doubles: 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014
  • 5 times Austrian vice national champion in singles: 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2017
  • 3 times Austrian Vice State Champion in mixed doubles: 2003, 2006, 2013
  • 2-time Austrian Vice State Champion in doubles: 2014, 2017
  • 7 times Lower Austrian national champion: 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
  • 2-time Lower Austrian Vice Champion: 2007, 2017
  • 5 times Lower Austrian mixed doubles national champion: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
  • 1-time Lower Austrian vice mixed doubles regional champion: 2015
  • 6 times Lower Austrian double national champion: 2005, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2018
  • 5 times Lower Austrian vice-double national champion: 1998, 1999, 2013, 2014, 2019
  • 3 times Austrian double champion: 2013, 2016, 2019
  • 1-time Austrian mixed doubles champion: 2016

Winner of several tournaments at home and abroad and Int. World ranking tournaments:

Andreas Vevera at the Paralympics 2008
  • 5 × Slovenia Open: 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013
  • 4 × Slovakia Open: 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011
  • 2 × Austria Open: 1999, 2008
  • 2 × Hungary Open: 2006, 2009
  • 2 × Italy Team Open: 2012, 2013
  • 1 × German Open: 2006
  • 1 × Croatia Open: 2007
  • 1 × Czech Republic Open: 2010
  • 1 × Italy Open: 2013
  • 1 × Slovakia Team Open: 2006
  • 1 × Romania Team Open: 2010

No. 1 in the world rankings: 1530 days

  • No. 1 in the world rankings: 2006, 2007, 2013 (not continuous)
  • No. 1 in the world rankings: 2008 to 2011 (continuous)

statistics

  • Int. Tournament wins: 24
  • Int. Finals: 51
  • Int. Podiums: 75
  • No. 1 in the world rankings: 1530 days
  • Top 3 in the world rankings: 2800 days
  • Austrian state champion: 16
  • Lower Austria champion: 18
  • Austrian senior champions: 4
  • EM, WM, Olympic medals: 10

Awards

Andreas Vevera Award 2008
  • 2006: Lower Austrian disabled athlete of the year
  • 2006: Golden badge of honor of the NÖTTV
  • 2006: Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
  • 2008: Lower Austrian disabled athlete of the year
  • 2008: Golden ÖTTV badge of honor
  • 2008: Golden Badge of Honor for the State of Lower Austria
  • 2008: Decoration of Honor in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria
  • 2008: 2nd place Austrian disabled athletes
  • 2010: 3rd place in Lower Austrian disabled athletes
  • 2011: 2nd place in Lower Austrian disabled athletes
  • 2011: 2nd place NÖN-Klosterneuburg athlete choice
  • 2013: 1st place NÖN-Klosterneuburg athlete choice
  • 2013: 2nd place in Lower Austrian disabled athletes
  • 2015: Lower Austrian sports legend

Trainer

  • Andreas Zankl - graduate sports teacher at the RZ Weißer Hof
  • Florian Stöger - Dipl. Ex-PE teacher at the RZ Weißer Hof
  • Rudolf Hajek - Paralympic winner, world and European champion, No. 1 in the world rankings, ...
  • Ronald Fischer - Austrian ex-para national coach
  • Johann Knoll - Austrian para national trainer
  • Thomas Haider - Austrian ex-para-national coach
  • Doris Mader - Vice Paralympic Champion, No. 5 in the world rankings, ...

Web links

Commons : Andreas Vevera  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Andreas Vevera - Beijing 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of the bearers of the badge of honor for services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 9, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Vevera, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian gold medalist Paralympics Beijing 2008 in table tennis
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna