Edvard Vecko

Edvard Vecko (born October 29, 1944 in Hrastnik ) is a Slovenian table tennis player and trainer. He was European champion several times. He later worked as a trainer in Germany and Austria.

Career in Yugoslavia

Vecko grew up with four siblings in Hrastnik. In 1956 he came to table tennis. He joined the Olimpija Ljubljana Association. After winning the Slovenian and Yugoslavian youth championships, he was in Bled in 1962 together with Istvan Korpa youth European champion in doubles and with the team.

In the same year he also took part in the European Championship for Adults in Berlin . He was second in doubles with Istvan Korpa and European men's champion with the Yugoslav team. At the next European Championship in 1964 he finished 2nd with the team. 1968 he was double European champion with Antun Stipančić ; they defeated the Swedes Alser / Johannson in the final .

Between 1962 and 1969, Vecko was invited to 140 international matches. He was represented four times at world championships , namely 1963 , 1965 , 1967 and 1969 . At the Balkan Championships, he took first place twice in doubles and in mixed. He won a total of 15 titles at Yugoslav championships.

Career in Germany and Austria

From October 1970 Vecko worked as a state trainer in the Austrian Table Tennis Association . After a short stopover in Slovenia - in 1975 he coached the women's team at Olimpija Ljubljana - he moved to Germany in 1976. Here he played with the club TTC Calw in the Bundesliga . In the same year the TTV Württemberg-Hohenzollern signed him as an association trainer. In 1981 he joined SSV Reutlingen 05 and later TTV Neuhausen (2nd Bundesliga). In mid-1982 he became the coach of the Yugoslav women's national team.

In 1999 he returned to Austria. In Carinthia he dedicated himself as an association trainer to the youth work. With the clubs DSG St. Veit and SC Völkendorf (from 2003) he played in the national league.

Private

Vecko is married. He has a son (* 1972) and a daughter (* 1976).

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
YUG	Balkan Championship	1970	Sofia	BUL	silver			1
YUG	Balkan Championship	1969	Athens	GRE	Semifinals	gold	gold	1
YUG	Balkan Championship	1967	Antalya	DOOR	Semifinals			1
YUG	Balkan Championship	1964	Athens	GRE	Semifinals	silver
YUG	Balkan Championship	1963	Athens	GRE		gold	gold	1
YUG	European Championship	1968	Lyon	FRA		gold
YUG	European Championship	1966	London	CLOSELY		Semifinals
YUG	European Championship	1964	Malmo	SWE				2
YUG	European Championship	1962	Berlin	FRG		silver		1
YUG	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1962	Bled	YUG		gold		1
YUG	Mediterranean Championship	1969	Athens	GRE	gold	gold	gold	1
YUG	World Championship	1969	Munich	FRG	last 128	last 64	last 32	3
YUG	World Championship	1967	Stockholm	SWE	last 32	Quarter finals	last 64	7th
YUG	World Championship	1965	Ljubljana	YUG	last 16	Quarter finals	last 16	4th
YUG	World Championship	1963	Prague	TCH	last 64	last 32	last 32	5

literature

• Journal DTS , 1977/16 pp. 43-44
• Portrait of a trainer , Ferlacher TT-Lokalrundschau, 1st quarter 2003, issue 1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Austrian Table Tennis Show 1972/01 page 2 (accessed on March 16, 2011; PDF; 3.6 MB)
2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1981/10 p. 8
3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1986/7 p. 5
4. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1982/14 Issue South West regional p.25
5. ↑ 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 16, 2011)