Daniel Arnold (table tennis player)

Daniel Arnold (born December 16, 1978 in Augsburg ) is a German table tennis player . By 2011 he won three gold medals at the Paralympic Games , five titles at world championships and eight titles at European championships for the disabled.

Career

Daniel Arnold plays because of the shortening of both arms and the right leg in disabled sports in competition class 6, and occasionally also in competition class AB for "general handicapped people". He started playing table tennis at the age of seven at the TSV Merching club. From 1995 he started with the disabled. He switched to BSV Munich, where he plays with the disabled. In addition, he has been playing in a non-disabled team at Post SV Augsburg since 1999 . Since 1999 it has been number one in the world rankings for several years.

successes

The most important successes at German Championships (DM), German Team Championships (DMM), European Championships (EM), World Championships (WM) and Paralympics:

• 1996 DM in St. Ingbert: 1st place single (class 6), place double (Winfried Stelzner)
• 1997 DM in Stuttgart: 1st place individual
• 1997 EM in Stockholm (Sweden): Gold in the team, third in the individual
• 1998 DM in Furtwangen: 2nd place individual
• 1998 World Championships in Paris (France): gold in the individual, gold in the team
• 1999 DM in Dessau: 1st place individual
• 1999 European Championship in Piestany (Slovakia): gold in the individual, gold in the team
• 2000 DM in Ulm: 1st place single, 3rd place double (open class with Peter Fenn)
• 2000 Paralympics in Sydney (Australia): silver in the individual, gold in the team
• 2001 DM in Berlin: 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (open class with Peter Fenn), 3rd place singles (open class)
• 2001 EM in Frankfurt (Germany): Gold in the team
• 2002 DM in Laichingen: 1st place individual
• 2002 World Cup in Taipei (Taiwan): Gold in the team (with Dieter Meyer and Rainer Schmidt ), third in the individual (defeat in the semifinals against Dieter Meyer)
• 2003 DM in Offenburg: 1st place single, 2nd place double (open class with Peter Fenn)
• 2003 European Championship in Zagreb (Croatia): Gold in the team, silver in the individual
• 2004 DM in Koblenz: 1st place individual
• 2004 Paralympics in Athens (Greece): gold in the individual, gold in the team
• 2005 DM in Bad Kreuznach: 2nd place single, 3rd place single (open class)
• 2005 European Championship in Jesolo (Italy): gold in the individual, silver in the team
• 2006 DM in Schwerin: 2nd place singles, 1st place doubles (open class with Jan Brinkmann)
• 2006 World Championships in Montreux (Switzerland): gold in the individual, gold in the team (with Rainer Schmidt)
• 2007 DM in Offenburg: 1st place singles, 2nd place doubles (open class with Jan Brinkmann)
• 2007 EM in Kranjska Gora (Slovenia): Gold in the individual, gold in the team (with Rainer Schmidt)
• 2008 DM in Neuenstein: 1st place single, 2nd place double (open class with Jan Brinkmann)
• 2008 DMM in Solingen: 2nd place
• 2008 Paralympics in Beijing (China): Silver in the individual
• 2009 DM in Alveslohe: 1st place single, 1st place double (class 9.10 + AB with Jan Brinkmann)
• 2009 DMM in Koblenz: 2nd place
• 2010 DM in Dietzenbach: 1st place singles, 3rd place doubles (class 9.10 + AB with Jan Brinkmann)
• 2010 DMM overseas: 2nd place
• 2011 DM in Greifswald: 1st place single, 1st place double (class 9.10 + AB with Jan Brinkmann)
• 2013 DM in Neuenstein: 1 place individual

Honors

In 2011 Daniel Arnold was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame . The admission had already been decided a year earlier at the World Disabled Championships in South Korea. Since Arnold was absent there due to an injury, this was made up for at the Bavarian Championships for the disabled in Munich in 2011.

Further honors:

• 2000: Honorary member of TSV Merching
• 2000: Honorary citizen of the Merching community
• 2000: Silver bay leaf for success at the Paralympics in Sydney
• 2002: Sports award from the Bavarian Prime Minister, presented by Edmund Stoiber
• 2004: Daniel-Arnold-Förderpreis, with which the municipality of Merching has given every four years since 2004, honoring deserving athletes in the city
• 2004: Sportsman of the Year from Augsburg
• 2004: Hermann Haagen Memorial Prize from the Bavarian Table Tennis Association
• 2004: Silver bay leaf because of the successes at the Paralympics in Athens
• 2006: "Best Player of World" of all damage classes by the World Association for the Disabled
• 2006: Sportsman of the year from Augsburg
• 2008: Silver bay leaf because of the success at the Paralympics in Beijing

Private

Daniel Arnold is a freight forwarder by profession. He lives in Merching .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ bayern table tennis , official notices of the Bavarian table tennis association , 2006/12 p. 7
2. ^ Association booklet "Post SV Telekom Augsburg eV", 2002, No. 5, page 143
3. ^ Association booklet "Post SV Telekom Augsburg eV", 2004, Issue 1 page 22
4. ^ Association booklet "Post SV Telekom Augsburg eV", 2004, issue 5, pages 74 + 86
5. ^ Association booklet "Post SV Telekom Augsburg eV", 2006, Issue 5, page 84
6. ↑ bayern table tennis , official notices of the Bavarian table tennis association , 2007/44 p. 2
7. ^ Association booklet "Post SV Telekom Augsburg eV", 2008, Issue 5, page 79
8. ↑ Report from the DM 2013 (accessed on April 30, 2013)
9. ↑ Report on tischtennis.de ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 23, 2011)  
10. ^ Association booklet "Post SV Telekom Augsburg eV", 2002, No. 5, page 143
11. ^ Association booklet "Post SV Telekom Augsburg eV", 2005, No. 1 page 19
12. ^ Association booklet "Post SV Telekom Augsburg eV", 2006, No. 5, page 84

Web links

• Homepage of Daniel Arnold (accessed on July 22, 2011)
• Club booklets of PSV Augsburg (accessed on February 3, 2016)