Bernhard Bukiet

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Bernhard Bukiet (born January 1919 in Poland ; † 1995 ) was one of the best German table tennis players until 1952 . He became German team champion and later three times American champion.

Bukiet was born in Poland in 1919. During World War II he was held in a Russian concentration camp. After his release he played table tennis in Germany. First he joined the club SC Fürstenfeldbruck . In 1948 he was defeated by Heinz Raack in a comparison match in Berlin . A year later he won the individual championship in Bavaria. He later moved to TSV Milbertshofen , with whom he was German team champion in 1951/52.

In 1952 he moved to the USA, in 1957 he took American citizenship. In 1958 he was led in the USA rankings in first place. In 1955 he returned to Germany. In Kiel he won the double competition at the International German Championships together with the American Erwin Klein . In 1960 he joined Eintracht Frankfurt as a player-coach.

In 1957, 1963 and 1966 he was American champion in singles. Between 1954 and 1973 he represented the USA at eight world championships. He came furthest in 1954 , when he was eliminated in the quarterfinals by a defeat against the eventual world champion Ichirō Ogimura (Japan).

Results from the ITTF database

Association competition year place country singles Double Mixed team
United States  World Championship  1973  Sarajevo  YUG   Agony  last 64  Agony  17th 
United States  World Championship  1965  Ljubljana  YUG   last 128  last 32  no participants  23 
United States  World Championship  1963  Prague  TCH   last 32  last 32  last 64  5 
United States  World Championship  1959  Dortmund  FRG   last 128  last 64  last 32  17th 
United States  World Championship  1957  Stockholm  SWE   last 128  last 32  last 16  5 
United States  World Championship  1956  Tokyo  JPN   last 32  last 16  last 32  11 
United States  World Championship  1955  Utrecht  NED   last 64  last 16  no participants  5 
United States  World Championship  1954  Wembley  CLOSELY   Quarter finals  last 64  no participants  4th 

Web links

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  • DTS magazine , 1994/5 page 38
  • DTS magazine , 1994/7 regional south pages 5–6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 75 years of the Berliner Tischtennisverband eV - Chronicle 1927 - 2002, 2002, publisher: Berliner Tischtennisverband eV, Berlin, page 18
  2. ↑ Homepage of the SC Fürstenfeldbruck: Chronicle - Foundation and 1950s (accessed on January 10, 2016)
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1958/7 West issue, page 2
  4. ↑ Tischtennis Magazin, official organ of the Lower Saxony table tennis association, 2006 issue 4, page 21
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1960/6 issue West page 1 + page 10
  6. ↑ Bernhard Bukiet Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 4, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Bukiet, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German and American table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH January 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Poland
DATE OF DEATH 1995