Erich Amplatz

Erich Amplatz (born February 6, 1960 in Judenburg ) is a former Austrian table tennis player . He was one of the best players in Austria in the 1970s and 1980s.

Career

Erich Amplatz began his career at the Atus Judenburg association . He later switched to the clubs from Langenlois , TTC Raiffeisen Langenlois and UTTC Römerquelle Langenlois. After an interlude at Union Wolkersdorf , he returned to UTTC Langenlois in 1996.

He achieved his first successes in 1976 when he became Austrian student champion in doubles (with Franz Pröglhöf). In 1977 he won the Austrian youth championship in singles. In the same year he reached the final in doubles with Alexander Pokorny at the European Youth Championships.

Amplatz was Austrian champion in singles four times (1978, 1980, 1981, 1982), several times he won the title in doubles and mixed. In 1976 he was nominated for the Austrian national team, in the European league match against Italy he defeated Stefano Bosi .

Between 1977 and 1985 he took part in five world championships and several times in European championships , but never came close to medal ranks. In 1992 he qualified with Ding Yi for participation in the double competition at the Olympic Games , where they lost two matches in the preliminary round and were eliminated.

In 1999 Erich Amplatz ended his career.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
AUT	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1977	Vichy	FRA		silver
AUT	Olympic games	1992	Barcelona	ESP	no participants	immediately excluded
AUT	World Championship	1985	Gothenburg	SWE	last 64	Agony	last 64	21st
AUT	World Championship	1983	Tokyo	JPN	last 128	last 32	no participants	27
AUT	World Championship	1981	Novi Sad	YUG	last 128	last 64	last 64	23
AUT	World Championship	1979	Pyongyang	PRK	last 64	last 32	no participants	22nd
AUT	World Championship	1977	Birmingham	CLOSELY	last 128	last 32	last 64	24

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NÖTTLV-Nachrichten 1975/1 p.31 (accessed on May 20, 2012; PDF; 1.9 MB)
2. ↑ NÖTTV-TT-Magazin 1995/6 p.13 (accessed on May 20, 2012; PDF; 943 kB)
3. ↑ NÖTTLV-Nachrichten 1976/11 page 7 (accessed on May 20, 2012; PDF; 619 kB)
4. ↑ NÖTTLV-Nachrichten 1977/5 pp.6-7 (accessed on May 20, 2012; PDF; 1.3 MB)
5. ↑ Results of the European Youth Championships on ettu.org ( Memento from November 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on May 20, 2012)
6. ↑ NÖTTLV-Nachrichten 1976/11 page 11 (accessed on May 20, 2012; PDF; 619 kB)
7. ^ Homepage Hadersdorf (accessed on May 20, 2012)
8. ↑ ITTF statistics ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 20, 2012)  

Web links

• Erich Amplatz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )