Andrei Vyacheslavovich Masunov
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:
- 1991–1992 TSV Milbertshofen
- 1992–1993 TTC Helga Hanover
- 1993–1994 RC Protesia Hamburg
- 1994–1995 Post SV Telekom Augsburg
- 1995–1996 Würzburger Kickers
- 1996–1998 DJK Offenburg
- 1998–2000 TSG Dülmen
- 2000–2001 TuS Rammersweier
- 2001 – today (2014) TTF Altshausen
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 |
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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
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1991/8 page 17
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1991/7 page 15
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1992/6 page 13
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1993/4 page 12
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/6 page 18
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1995/6 page 47
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/7 page 12
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1998/6 page 8
- ↑ DTS magazine , 2000/6 page 25
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2006/1 page 7
- ^ Andrei Vyacheslavovich Masunov Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 12, 2011)
personal data | |
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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 |