Christian Awart

Christian Awart (born September 28, 1933 , † February 9, 2009 ; full name: Christian Richard Hans Awart ) was an Austrian national table tennis player who was one of the best players in Austria in the 1950s.

Career

Christian Awart won a title at the national Austrian championships four times , namely in 1953 in singles and from 1953 to 1955 three times in a row in doubles with Wolfgang Stoiber . From 1951 to 1955 he took part in four world championships , but never came close to medal ranks.

Awart played in the clubs Union Landhaus, Union Edlitz-Thomasberg (around 1975), ASKÖ Grimmenstein (around 1977 to 1985) and TT Casino Baden AC (since 1985).

He was buried at the Meidlinger Friedhof .

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
AUT	World Championship	1955	Utrecht	NED	last 256	last 128	Scratched	14?
AUT	World Championship	1954	Wembley	CLOSELY	last 128	last 64	no participants	13
AUT	World Championship	1953	Bucharest	ROU	last 128	last 64	no participants
AUT	World Championship	1951	Vienna	AUT	Agony	no participants	no participants

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Notification of death in: ÖTTV Information No. 1030, February 19, 2009, page 1 (accessed November 25, 2012)
2. ^ Association Union Edlitz-Thomasberg: Lower Austria regional association. Tischtennis-Nachrichten 1975/5 page 7 (accessed November 25, 2012; PDF; 1.3 MB)
3. ^ Association ASKÖ Grimmenstein: Lower Austria regional association. Tischtennis-Nachrichten 1977/12 page 5 (accessed on November 25, 2012; PDF; 854 kB)
4. ↑ Change of club ASKÖ Grimmenstein to TT Casino Baden AC: NOE-TT-Nachrichten 1985/9 p.9 (accessed on November 25, 2012; PDF; 1.3 MB)
5. ↑ Christian Awart Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed November 25, 2012)