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 |
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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
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2009/7 page 28
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2015/8 page 32
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1987/5 page 28
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1992/6 page 13
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/7 page 12
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Branka Batinić Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 3, 2011)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Batinić, Branka |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Yugoslav and Croatian table tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1958 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vinkovci |