Andrei Vyacheslavovich Masunov

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Andrei Vjatscheslawowitsch Masunow ( Russian Андрей Вячеславович Мазунов ; born March 31, 1967 in Gorky ) is a former Soviet table tennis player and Vice European Champion.

successes

Andrei Masunow started playing table tennis at the age of nine. In 1981 he became European Cadet Champion, in 1984 he won this junior title by beating Carl Prean in the final .

At the European Championships (EM) men he reached the final in the singles in Paris in 1988; after the defeat, despite 2-0 lead against Mikael Appelgren , he was runner-up in Europe. At the same European Championship he came third with the Soviet team. In 1984 he had already won bronze in the individual.

Between 1983 and 1999 Masunow took part in all eight world championships . At the 1989 edition he was fourth with the Soviet team, and at the 1991 World Cup he reached the semi-finals in doubles with his brother Dmitri Masunov .

During this period he was also qualified three times for the Olympic Games ( 1988 , 1992 , 1996 ) and seven times for the European ranking tournament Europe TOP-12 . At the 1992 Olympics, the Masunow brothers were eliminated in doubles in the quarterfinals against South Koreans Kim Taek Soo / Yoo Nam-Kyu .

In 1991 Masunow moved from the Radij Gorki club to the Bundesliga for TSV Milbertshofen . Up until then he was the first Soviet table tennis player to appear in the German BL. Subsequently, he played for several Bundesliga clubs:

After the end of his international career, Masunov became youth national coach in Russia in October 2005.

Private

Andrei Masunow has a younger brother Dmitri , who was one of the best Soviet players with him in the late 1980s.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
URS  European Championship  1990  Gothenburg  SWE   last 16  Semifinals     
URS  European Championship  1988  Paris  FRA   silver       
URS  European Championship  1986  Prague  TCH   Quarter finals       
URS  European Championship  1984  Moscow  URS   Semifinals  Quarter finals     
URS  European Youth Championship (Cadets)  1981  Topolcany  TCH   gold       
URS  European Youth Championship (Juniors)  1984  Linz  AUT   gold      1
URS  European Youth Championship (Juniors)  1983  Malmo  SWE   Semifinals      1
URS  EURO TOP12  1991  Hertogenbosch  NED   9       
URS  EURO TOP12  1990  Hanover  FRG   11       
URS  EURO TOP12  1989  Charleroi  BEL   9       
URS  EURO TOP12  1988  Ljubljana  YUG   7th       
URS  EURO TOP12  1987  Basel  SUI   9       
URS  EURO TOP12  1986  Sodertalje  SWE   7th       
URS  EURO TOP12  1985  Barcelona  ESP   9       
RUS  Olympic games  1996  Atlanta  United States   immediately excluded  immediately excluded     
EUN  Olympic games  1992  Barcelona  ESP   immediately excluded  Quarter finals     
URS  Olympic games  1988  Seoul  COR   immediately excluded  immediately excluded     
URS  World Championship  1999  Eindhoven  NED   last 64  last 64  no participants   
RUS  World Championship  1997  Manchester  CLOSELY   no participants  last 16  no participants  9 
RUS  World Championship  1995  Tianjin  CHN   last 64  last 16  no participants  19th 
URS  World Championship  1991  Chiba City  JPN   last 32  Semifinals  no participants  12 
URS  World Championship  1989  Dortmund  FRG   last 64  last 64  no participants  4th 
URS  World Championship  1987  New Delhi  IND   last 16  last 16  no participants  11 
URS  World Championship  1985  Gothenburg  SWE   last 32  last 64  last 32  19th 
URS  World Championship  1983  Tokyo  JPN   last 128  last 64  Agony  16 
EUN  World Doubles Cup  1992  Las Vegas  United States     silver     
URS  World Doubles Cup  1990  Seoul  COR     Quarter finals     
RUS  WTC World Team Cup  1994  Nimes  FRA         5 
URS  WTC World Team Cup  1990  Hokkaido, Aomori, Niig  JPN         5 

literature

  • Rahul Nelson: The Soviet Union is built on a pair of brothers: Andrei and Dmitrij Mazunov , DTS magazine , 1989/5, pages 38–40

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1991/8 page 17
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1991/7 page 15
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1992/6 page 13
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1993/4 page 12
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/6 page 18
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1995/6 page 47
  7. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/7 page 12
  8. ↑ DTS magazine , 1998/6 page 8
  9. ↑ DTS magazine , 2000/6 page 25
  10. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2006/1 page 7
  11. ^ Andrei Vyacheslavovich Masunov Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 12, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Masunow, Andrei Vyacheslavovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Мазунов, Андрей Вячеславович; Mazunov, Andrei
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Gorky , Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic , Soviet Union