Daniela Gergeltschewa

Daniela Gergeltschewa ( Bulgarian Даниела Гергелчева ; born July 20, 1964 in Momchilgrad , often in French. Daniela Guergueltcheva ) is a former Bulgarian table tennis player . In 1990 she won the European Championship in singles.

Career

Daniela Gergeltschewa began playing table tennis at the age of seven. In 1976 she won the national championships in both the female, male and female classes. At the age of 18 she moved to the Akademik Sofia association. Since she had no serious opponent in Bulgaria at that time, she played with a special permit in the men's team of this club in the first division.

In 1979 she reached the final at the European Youth Championships in Rome, which she lost to the Lithuanian Jolanta Danilevičiūtė .

Between 1979 and 1995 Gergeltschewa took part in eight world championships . It wasn't enough for medal ranks, the best placement was in 1989 reaching the semi-finals in doubles. In the tournament Europe TOP-12 she finished 3rd in 1986 and 1989, 4th in 1992. In 1988 and 1992 she represented Bulgaria at the Olympic Games.

Her greatest success was winning the 1990 European Championship in Gothenburg, Sweden, when she beat Tu Dai Yong (Switzerland) in the final. In this tournament she also won bronze in mixed (with Ding Yi ).

From 1989 she played in France in Montpellier.

Private

Daniela Gergeltschewa studied table tennis at the Sports University Sofia and then dealt with law.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
BUL	Balkan Championship	1985	Pleven	BUL	Semifinals
BUL	Balkan Championship	1984	Athens	GRE	Semifinals
BUL	Balkan Championship	1983	Ivangrad	YUG	Semifinals
BUL	Balkan Championship	1982	Izmir	DOOR			silver
BUL	Balkan Championship	1980	Varna	BUL	Semifinals
BUL	Balkan Championship	1979	Athens	GRE		silver
BUL	European Championship	1994	Birmingham	CLOSELY	last 16
BUL	European Championship	1992	Stuttgart	GER		Quarter finals
BUL	European Championship	1990	Gothenburg	SWE	gold	Quarter finals	Semifinals
BUL	European Championship	1988	Paris	FRA	last 16	Quarter finals
BUL	European Championship	1986	Prague	TCH	last 16		Quarter finals
BUL	European Championship	1984	Moscow	URS	last 16
BUL	European Youth Championship (Cadets)	1979	Roma	ITA	silver
BUL	EURO TOP12	1994	Arezzo	ITA	11
BUL	EURO TOP12	1993	Copenhagen	THE	11
BUL	EURO TOP12	1992	Vienna	AUT	4th
BUL	EURO TOP12	1990	Hanover	FRG	9
BUL	EURO TOP12	1989	Charleroi	BEL	3
BUL	EURO TOP12	1987	Basel	SUI	5
BUL	EURO TOP12	1986	Sodertalje	SWE	3
BUL	Olympic games	1992	Barcelona	ESP	immediately excluded	no participants
BUL	Olympic games	1988	Seoul	COR	last 16	no participants
BUL	World Championship	1995	Tianjin	CHN	last 128	last 64	last 128	21st
BUL	World Championship	1993	Gothenburg	SWE	last 32	last 64	last 64	28
BUL	World Championship	1991	Chiba City	JPN	last 64	last 32	last 128	19th
BUL	World Championship	1989	Dortmund	FRG	last 16	Quarter finals	last 16	15th
BUL	World Championship	1987	New Delhi	IND	last 16	last 16	last 32	17th
BUL	World Championship	1985	Gothenburg	SWE	last 64	last 32	Agony	32
BUL	World Championship	1981	Novi Sad	YUG	last 64	last 64	last 32	19th
BUL	World Championship	1979	Pyongyang	PRK	Agony	last 64	Agony	16

swell

• Radivoj Hudetz : Daniela Guergueltcheva: I know myself best . In: DTS 1988/2, pp. 24-25.
• Martin Gossel: Never more than three sentences . In: DTS 1990/5, p. 13
• Entry in ITTF database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Austrian table tennis newspaper ÖTTZ 2002 / issue 47, p. 10
2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1990/5, p. 16
3. ↑ ITTF statistics ( memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 7, 2011)