Thing yi

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Ding Yi (born January 14, 1959 in Shanghai , China ) is an Austrian table tennis player . Since the mid-1980s he has been one of the top players in Austria.

Career in Austria

The penholder player Ding Yi came to Europe in 1982 and then from the Italian club Vita San Elpidio to Austria in the mid-1980s, where he first joined the Raiffeisen Kuchl club and then Union Wolkersdorf. In August 1987 he received Austrian citizenship, which entitled him to start in the national team . At that time he was the strongest player in the country. From 1988 to 1994 he was national champion in individual seven times in a row before he was replaced by Werner Schlager in 1995 . In 1992 and 1993 he won the team championship with Langenlois.

In 1988 and 1990 he was nominated for the European Championship . He won bronze in mixed with Bulgarian Daniela Gergeltschewa in 1990 . From 1989 to 2000 he took part in seven world championships , from 1988 he was represented at four Olympiads.

At the Senior World Championships in 2006 he won bronze in the age group over 40 in doubles with Roland Böhm, in 2008 and 2010 he was senior world champion in singles in the classes over 40 and over 50. In 2009 and 2015 he was also senior European champion in the men's singles over 50s, 2011 and 2013 vice European champion.

Time in Germany and Switzerland

1996 moved to the German Bundesliga for TTC Frickenhausen . With this club he became German runner-up in 1998/99. As a top player, he was instrumental in this success with a positive 7: 5 balance. In 2000 he was signed by the TTC Rhön-Sprudel Fulda-Maberzell before he returned to Austria in the State League A in Wolkersdorf in 2002. Then he played at Mauthausen in the Austrian Bundesliga. Ding Yi has been playing at TTC Baar in Switzerland since the 2016/17 season .

Private

Ding Yi is a trained export merchant. He is married and has two sons.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
AUT  European Championship  1990  Gothenburg  SWE   last 16    Semifinals   
AUT  European Championship  1988  Paris  FRA   last 16       
AUT  EURO TOP12  1995  Dijon  FRA   7th       
AUT  EURO TOP12  1994  Arezzo  ITA        
AUT  EURO TOP12  1993  Copenhagen  THE   7th       
AUT  EURO TOP12  1992  Vienna  AUT        
AUT  EURO TOP12  1989  Charleroi  BEL   4th       
AUT  Olympic games  2000  Sydney  OUT   immediately excluded  no participants     
AUT  Olympic games  1996  Atlanta  United States   immediately excluded  immediately excluded     
AUT  Olympic games  1992  Barcelona  ESP   Quarter finals  immediately excluded     
AUT  Olympic games  1988  Seoul  COR   last 16  immediately excluded     
AUT  Pro tour  1999  Linz / Wels  AUT   last 32       
AUT  Pro tour  1996  Bolzano  ITA     Quarter finals     
AUT  World Championship  2000  Kuala Lumpur  MAS         9-12 
AUT  World Championship  1999  Eindhoven  NED   no participants  no participants  no participants   
AUT  World Championship  1997  Manchester  CLOSELY   Scratched  last 64  no participants  10 
AUT  World Championship  1995  Tianjin  CHN   last 16  Scratched  no participants 
AUT  World Championship  1993  Gothenburg  SWE   last 128  last 32  Agony 
AUT  World Championship  1991  Chiba City  JPN   last 32  last 64  last 128 
AUT  World Championship  1989  Dortmund  FRG   last 32  last 16  last 16  23 
AUT  World cup  1993  Guangzhou  SWE   5th-8th space       
AUT  WTC World Team Cup  1995  Atlanta  United States        
AUT  WTC World Team Cup  1994  Nimes  FRA        
AUT  WTC World Team Cup  1991  Barcelona  ESP        

literature

  • Uwe Dietz: Qualified - but not eligible to start , DTS magazine , 1988/1, page 36
  • fxh: Mit Kämperherz and Wiener Schmäh , DTS magazine , 1999/6, page 14

Individual evidence

  1. DTS magazine , 1984/7 p. 20
  2. DTS magazine , 1987/10 p. 16
  3. http://members.aon.at/langenlois/frlgesch.htm
  4. http://www.oettv.org/de/menu_3/europa2/senioren3/newsshow-senioren-----vize-senioren-europameister-ding-yi
  5. Ding Yi results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 5, 2011)

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