Benedek Oláh

Benedek Oláh
year 2014
Nation:	Finland
Date of birth:	March 29, 1991
Place of birth:	Kalajoki
Playing hand:	right
Current world rankings :	94
Best world ranking :	56 (November 2016)
Last update of the infobox: November 3rd, 2016

Benedek Márton Oláh (born March 29, 1991 in Kalajoki ) is a Finnish table tennis player .

Career

Benedek Oláh started playing table tennis in 2000 and joined the Finnish national team in 2006. This year he took part in the World Cup for the first time at the age of 15 and has been represented at every World Cup since then (as of 2016). Since 2008 he has won over 15 titles in Finnish championships in singles, doubles and mixed.

In April 2016, he beat several favorite players in the qualifying tournament for the 2016 Olympic Games - including Andrej Gaćina , who was more than 100 places above him in 19th place - and as a result improved his world rankings by more than 50 places. As a result, he moved up to 74th place in May and thus for the first time into the top 100 in the world (more than 400 places behind the second-best Finn) and qualified as the first Finnish table tennis player ever successfully for the Olympic Games, in which he was Chen Feng from Singapore and then knocked out against the Dane Jonathan Groth . In May, he was also the first Finn to win a World Tour tournament, the Nigeria Open . At the European Championships in 2016 he surprisingly reached the quarter-finals in individual singles, in which he was defeated by Timo Boll , and was also in the mixed with Georgina Póta in the last eight. From the 2017/18 season he will play for the French first division club Jura Morez TT.

societies

• 2013/14: DT Huechtert / Folscht
• 2014/15: Enjoy & Deploy Taverzo
• since 2017: Jura Morez TT

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
FIN	European Championship	2018	Alicante	ESP	last 32	last 32
FIN	European Championship	2017	Luxembourg	LUX				26th
FIN	European Championship	2016	Budapest	HUN	Quarter finals	last 32	Quarter finals
FIN	European Championship	2015	Ekaterinburg	RUS	last 64			28
FIN	European Championship	2014	Lisbon	POR				29
FIN	European Championship	2013	Schwechat	AUT	Agony	Agony		29
FIN	European Championship	2012	Herning	THE	Agony	Agony
FIN	European Games	2019	Minsk	BLR	last 32
FIN	Olympic games	2016	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	last 48
FIN	ITTF Challenge Series	2020	Granada	ESP	Semifinals	last 16
FIN	ITTF World Tour	2016	Lagos	NGR	gold
FIN	World Championship	2019	Budapest	HUN	last 64	last 16	Agony
FIN	World Championship	2018	Halmstad	SWE				53
FIN	World Championship	2017	Dusseldorf	GER	last 64	last 64	last 32
FIN	World Championship	2016	Kuala Lumpur	MAS				53
FIN	World Championship	2015	Suzhou	CHN	last 64	last 64	last 128
FIN	World Championship	2014	Tokyo	JPN				59
FIN	World Championship	2013	Paris	FRA	Agony	Agony	Agony
FIN	World Championship	2012	Dortmund	GER				45
FIN	World Championship	2011	Rotterdam	NED	Agony	Agony	last 128
FIN	World Championship	2010	Moscow	RUS				49
FIN	World Championship	2009	Yokohama	JPN	Agony		Agony
FIN	World Championship	2008	Guangzhou	CHN				54
FIN	World Championship	2007	Zagreb	CRO	Agony	Agony
FIN	World Championship	2006	Bremen	GER				47

Web links

• Benedek Oláh Article about Benedek Oláh on the website of the World Table Tennis Association ittf.com (English)
• Benedek Oláh Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on August 5, 2016)
• Benedek Oláhs world rankings

Individual evidence

1. ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
2. ↑ ittf.com - Most Improved Player of Year, Benedek Olah Lay's Strong Claim to Accolade ( Memento of the original from August 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 5, 2016)  
3. ↑ Benedek Oláh Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on August 19, 2016)