Branka Batinić

Branka Batinić (born May 8, 1958 in Vinkovci ) is a Yugoslav and Croatian table tennis player and trainer. She is two-time vice-European champion.

National successes in the Balkans

Batinić started playing table tennis when he was eight. At the age of 17, she moved to Zagreb and first joined the Marathon Zagreb club, then the first division club Mladost Zagreb. Here she was looked after for many years by the trainer Zlatko Novakovic.

A total of 42 times she was Croatian and 22 times Yugoslav champion. She was used 250 times in international matches for Yugoslavia.

World championships

Batinić was nominated six times for world championships between 1973 and 1985 . She achieved her greatest success at the 1981 World Cup when she won bronze in mixed with Dragutin Šurbek .

In 2006 in Bremen she became world champion in singles (with a 3-2 win in the final over Larisa Farina, Russia) and in doubles (together with Larisa Farina with a 3-1 victory in the final over the Japanese Kimie Iwata and Yumi Oshima) in the senior class 40.

European championships

At the European Championships she won her first title in 1975 when she won the title in the youth competition with the Yugoslav team. From 1974 to 1986 she took part in the European Championship for adults seven times. In 1982 she was vice European champion in mixed with Dragutin Šurbek, and in 1984 in doubles with Gordana Perkučin and with the team.

In 2009 she won the senior title in the 50+ class in singles and doubles with Russian Larisa Farina, and in 2015 she repeated her success in singles.

Germany

In 1986 Batinić moved from Mladost Zagreb to the 1st Bundesliga for the club FTG Frankfurt , with whom she won the German championship in 1987. Since only one foreigner was allowed to be used in a German team due to the new foreigner regulation that came into force in 1987 , she left Frankfurt for Trieste (Italy) and ended international competitive sport. In 1992 she returned to Germany to TTC Assenheim in order to be promoted to the 1st Bundesliga in 1994. In 1996 she moved to TSG Dülmen .

Trainer

Later she worked as a trainer. From 1998 to 2006 she was a player-coach at NSC Watzenborn-Steinberg (2nd Bundesliga, regional league), in January 2006 she switched to the table tennis school of Borussia Düsseldorf . She provided table tennis development aid for the world association ITTF in Kenya, Jordan and Trinidad and Tobago. But she still successfully trains the table tennis department of the KSV Klein-Karben and the TV Okarben as well as the TTC Ober-Erlenbach and the TSV Klein-Linden . Since 2011 she has played in the Hessenliga at SG Lahr (previously ESV Weil).

Private

Batinić completed a degree in economics.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	competition	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
YUG	Balkan Championship	1985	Pleven	BUL	silver		gold	1
YUG	Balkan Championship	1984	Athens	GRE	gold	gold		1
YUG	Balkan Championship	1983	Ivangrad	YUG	Semifinals	silver	silver
YUG	Balkan Championship	1982	Izmir	DOOR	silver
YUG	Balkan Championship	1981	Constanza	ROU	gold	silver	silver
YUG	Balkan Championship	1980	Varna	BUL	silver	silver	gold	1
YUG	Balkan Championship	1977	Brasov	ROU	Semifinals	gold	silver
YUG	Balkan Championship	1976	Samsun	DOOR	gold	silver
YUG	European Championship	1986	Prague	TCH	last 16		Semifinals
YUG	European Championship	1984	Moscow	URS		silver	Semifinals	2
YUG	European Championship	1982	Budapest	HUN		Quarter finals	silver
YUG	European Championship	1980	Bern	SUI		Quarter finals
YUG	European Championship	1978	Duisburg	FRG		Quarter finals
YUG	European Championship	1976	Prague	TCH	last 16
YUG	European Championship	1974	Novi Sad	YUG		Quarter finals
YUG	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1975	Zagreb	YUG				1
YUG	EURO TOP12	1987	Basel	SUI	11
YUG	EURO TOP12	1986	Sodertalje	SWE	4th
YUG	EURO TOP12	1985	Barcelona	ESP	8th
YUG	EURO TOP12	1984	Bratislava	TCH	7th
YUG	EURO TOP12	1983	Cleveland	CLOSELY	12
YUG	Mediterranean Games	1979	Hvar Split	YUG	3
YUG	World Championship	1985	Gothenburg	SWE	last 32	last 32	last 16	15th
YUG	World Championship	1983	Tokyo	JPN	last 128	last 64	last 16	13
YUG	World Championship	1981	Novi Sad	YUG	last 64	last 32	Semifinals	11
YUG	World Championship	1979	Pyongyang	PRK	last 32	last 32	last 16	8th
YUG	World Championship	1977	Birmingham	CLOSELY	last 64	last 64	Agony	14th
YUG	World Championship	1973	Sarajevo	YUG	last 64	Agony	last 64

philately

The post in Zagreb Croatia used the following special postmarks: February 4, 2002: European Table Tennis Championships 2002, Branka Batinić.

Web links

• muenster.org
• SH: Always on the go when it comes to table tennis: Branka Batinic , message from May 18, 2006 on tischtennis.de (accessed on August 21, 2012)

literature

• Rahul Nelson: A Regular Star , DTS Magazine , 1984/7 page 15
• Gerlinde Glatzer : A woman with temperament and wit, with heart and head: Branka Batinic , DTS magazine , 1987/2 pages 39–41

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2009/7 page 28
2. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2015/8 page 32
3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1987/5 page 28
4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1992/6 page 13
5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/7 page 12
6. ↑ Erwin Küper: Training camp for TSV Klein-Linden in the Emirate of Kartar , article in the Gießener Zeitung from March 19, 2012 (accessed on June 12, 2013)
7. ↑ Branka Batinic strengthens SG Lahr (accessed on June 2, 2012)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Branka Batinić Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 3, 2011)