Andrej Gaćina
Andrej Gaćina 
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| Date of birth: | May 21, 1986 |
| Place of birth: | Zadar , Yugoslavia |
| Playing hand: | Right handed |
| How to play: | Shakehand |
| Current world rankings : | 39 |
| Best world ranking : | 18 (Feb 2016) |
| Current continental ranking position: | 5 (Feb. 2016) |
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| Last update of the infobox: March 11, 2016 | |
Andrej Gaćina (born May 21, 1986 in Zadar , SR Croatia , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a Croatian table tennis player . In 2011 he was European champion in doubles.
Career
Andrej Gaćina made his first international appearance in 2004 at the World Youth Championships when he reached the semi-finals together with Tomislav Zubcic (Croatia). Since 2007 he has been nominated for all six world championships (as of 2012), but where he never came close to medal ranks. He has been represented at the European Championships since 2005. Here he finished second with the Croatian team in 2007 . In 2011 he and his partner Marcos Freitas (Portugal) became European champions in doubles.
In 2008 and 2012 he qualified to participate in the Olympic Games.
German Bundesliga
Andrej Gaćina was active for several European clubs, mostly he gave one-year guest appearances. He played in the Champions League with the Belgian club Royal Villette Charleroi and in the Bundesliga with several German clubs .
Club stations:
- until 2005: Zadar (Croatia)
- 2005-2006: WTTV Ramstein (2nd Bundesliga South)
- 2006–2007: TSV Untermberg
- 2007-2008: TSG Steinheim (2nd Bundesliga South)
- 2008–2009: Royal Villette Charleroi (Belgium)
- 2009-2010: 1. FC Saarbrücken (1st Bundesliga)
- 2010–2011: Royal Villette Charleroi (Belgium)
- 2011–2012: TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen (1st Bundesliga)
- 2012–2016: TTC drawbridge Grenzau
- from 2016: UMMC Verkhnaya Pyshma
Private
Andrej Gaćina has been married since 2015.
Results from the ITTF database
| Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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| CRO | European Championship | 2012 | Herning | THE | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
| HRV | European Championship | 2011 | Gdańsk-Sopot | POLE | gold | |||
| HRV | European Championship | 2009 | Stuttgart | GER | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| HRV | European Championship | 2007 | Belgrade | SRB | 2 | |||
| HRV | Mediterranean Games | 2009 | Pescara | ITA | silver | |||
| CRO | Olympic games | 2012 | London | CLOSELY | last 16 | |||
| HRV | Olympic games | 2008 | Beijing | CHN | no participants | 7th | ||
| CRO | Pro tour | 2013 | Berlin | GER | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| CRO | Pro tour | 2013 | Spala | POLE | last 16 | |||
| CRO | Pro tour | 2013 | Yokohama | JPN | last 16 | |||
| CRO | Pro tour | 2013 | Changchun | CHN | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| CRO | Pro tour | 2013 | Zagreb | CRO | last 32 | |||
| CRO | Pro tour | 2013 | Doha | QAT | last 64 | |||
| CRO | Pro tour | 2013 | catfish | AUT | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| CRO | Pro tour | 2012 | Bremen | GER | last 64 | |||
| CRO | Pro tour | 2012 | Ekaterinburg | RUS | last 32 | |||
| CRO | Pro tour | 2012 | Kuwait City | KUW | last 64 | |||
| CRO | Pro tour | 2012 | Doha | QAT | last 32 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2011 | Schwechat | AUT | last 32 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2011 | Almeria | ESP | last 16 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2011 | Władysławowo | POLE | last 64 | last 16 | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2011 | Dortmund | GER | last 64 | Quarter finals | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2011 | Dubai | UAE | last 16 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2011 | Doha | QAT | last 64 | Semifinals | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2011 | Sheffield | CLOSELY | last 64 | Quarter finals | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2011 | Velenje | SLO | last 64 | last 16 | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2010 | Warsaw | POLE | last 64 | gold | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2010 | catfish | AUT | last 32 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2010 | Suzhou | CHN | last 64 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2010 | Berlin | GER | last 32 | Semifinals | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2010 | Doha | QAT | last 64 | Semifinals | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2010 | Velenje | SVN | last 32 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2009 | Warsaw | POLE | last 32 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2009 | Sheffield | CLOSELY | last 16 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2009 | Minsk | BLR | last 64 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2009 | Doha | QAT | last 64 | last 16 | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2009 | Velenje | SVN | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2008 | Warsaw | POLE | last 16 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2008 | Berlin | GER | last 64 | 9 | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2008 | Salzburg | AUT | last 32 | 9 | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2008 | Daejeon | COR | last 32 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2008 | Yokohama | JPN | 2 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2008 | Santiago | CHI | last 32 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2008 | Belo Horizonte | BRA | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2008 | Doha | QAT | last 64 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2007 | catfish | AUT | last 64 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2007 | St. Petersburg | RUS | last 16 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2007 | Chiba | JPN | last 64 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2007 | Seongnam | COR | last 64 | Quarter finals | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2007 | New Delhi | IND | last 16 | Semifinals | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2006 | Warsaw | POLE | last 64 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2006 | Santiago | CHI | last 64 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2006 | Taipei | TPE | last 32 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2006 | Kuwait City | KUW | last 16 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2006 | Doha | QAT | last 16 | |||
| CRO | World Championship | 2013 | Paris | FRA | last 32 | last 32 | ||
| CRO | World Championship | 2012 | Dortmund | GER | 22nd | |||
| HRV | World Championship | 2011 | Rotterdam | NED | last 64 | last 64 | Scratc.Main | |
| HRV | World Championship | 2010 | Moscow | RUS | 18th | |||
| HRV | World Championship | 2009 | Yokohama | JPN | last 32 | Scratched | last 32 | |
| HRV | World Championship | 2008 | Guangzhou | CHN | 20th | |||
| HRV | World Championship | 2007 | Zagreb | HRV | Agony | last 64 | no participants | |
| HRV | Youth World Championship | 2004 | Kobe | JPN | Semifinals |
Web links
- Andrej Gaćina's biography on the website of the World Table Tennis Federation ittf.com (accessed October 25, 2012)
- Andrej Gaćina Article about Andrej Gaćina on the website of the World Table Tennis Association ittf.com (accessed October 25, 2012)
- Andrej Gaćina in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ) (accessed October 25, 2012)
Individual evidence
- ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
- ↑ Change of club Maestral to Untermberg: magazine tischtennis , 2005/8 page 41
- ↑ Change of club from Untermberg to Steinheim ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on October 25, 2012)
- ↑ Change of club Charleroi to Saarbrücken ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on October 25, 2012)
- ↑ Change of club Charleroi to Ochsenhausen ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on October 25, 2012)
- ↑ Change of club from Ochsenhausen to Grenzau ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on October 25, 2012)
- ↑ ttbl.de : Upheaval in Grenzau (accessed on February 1, 2016)
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2015/8 Region 7, page 7
- ↑ Andrej Gaćina results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on June 26, 2014)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gaćina, Andrej |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Croatian table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zadar |