Bert Onnes

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Bert Onnes 1962

Bert Onnes (born July 31, 1938 in Amsterdam - † November 10, 2018 ) was a Dutch table tennis player and trainer. In the 1950s and 1960s he won 24 titles at the Dutch championships , four times he took part in world championships .

Career

Bert Onnes initially joined the Sparta Amsterdam association, which later merged with the AMVJ association and was finally integrated into the Blauw Wit Amsterdam . With Sparta he won the Dutch team championship. At the national Dutch championships he was seven times champion in individual. He won a total of 24 titles:

  • 7 times singles: 1956, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965
  • 8 times doubles: 1956 (with Wim Stoop), 1957 (with Henny Grijzenhout), 1959, 1960, 1962 and 1963 (with Frans Schoofs ), 1964 and 1965 (with Mauri Colthof)
  • 9 times mixed: 1956, 1957, 1958 (with Nora van Megen), 1959, 1960 (with Agnes Simon ), 1961, 1962 (with Nellie Visscher), 1964 (with Aukje Wynia), 1965 (with Annemarie Wijnants)

In 1960 he won together with Agnes Simon in Berlin at the International German Championships in the mixed competition.

From 1955 to 1967 Bert Onnes was nominated for four world championships (1955, 1959, 1963, 1967), but where he never came close to medal ranks.

During his active career he also worked as a trainer, especially in the youth field.

In 1968 Bert Onnes ended his career as a competitive athlete because of an arm injury. He opened a table tennis school in Amsterdam.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
NED World Championship 1967 Stockholm SWE last 128 last 128 last 64 20th
NED World Championship 1963 Prague TCH last 64 last 64 last 32 21st
NED World Championship 1959 Dortmund FRG last 64 last 128 last 128 17th
NED World Championship 1955 Utrecht NED last 64 last 16 last 64 9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In memoriam: Bert Onnes (accessed November 14, 2018)
  2. ↑ Manfred Schäfer: A game for life. 75 years of DTTB. (1925-2000) . Published by the German Table Tennis Association DTTB , Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , page 137
  3. ↑ Bert Onnes results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed March 3, 2016)

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personal data
SURNAME Onnes, Bert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch table tennis player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 2018