Federação Portuguesa de Ténis de Mesa

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Federação Portuguesa de Ténis de Mesa
Founded 1944
Place of foundation Lisbon
president Pedro Miguel Gaspar Dias Moura
Homepage www.fptm.pt

The Federação Portuguesa de Ténis de Mesa ( FPTM ) is the umbrella organization for table tennis in Portugal . The FPTM is based in Rua Padre Luís Aparício number 9, in Coração de Jesus , an inner city parish of the capital Lisbon .

The FPTM belongs u. a. the International Table Tennis Federation ITTF, the European Table Tennis Federation ETTU, the umbrella organization Confederação do Desporto de Portugal and the Comité Olímpico de Portugal , the National Olympic Committee of Portugal.

She hosted the 2014 European Table Tennis Championships .

history

prehistory

Table tennis was initially known as ping pong in Portugal and was played in leisure clubs, in school yards or at leisure facilities, for example on beaches. The game quickly gained some popularity in sports and leisure clubs in the greater Lisbon area, particularly in Cascais and Carnide . The beach of Praia das Maçãs near Sintra was also a scene of lively table tennis, especially during the summer holidays.

The first noted table tennis tournament in Portugal was the Taça Gustavo Moreira cup competition in 1927/28 . One of the first documented individual table tennis games was the encounter on January 29, 1928, when table tennis players for Benfica Lisbon competed against a selection of science students and lost 14-2. One of the spectators was Henrique Pinto , who later became the first President of the Portuguese Badminton Federation. Pinto had learned table tennis from his childhood friend Lomelino, who later played a major role in the spread of table tennis in Brazil. In December 1929 Pinto then won all games in the Taça Simões-Lado cup tournament for his club Grupo Desportivo "Os Treze" . The club then competed in a number of cities, including Vila Franca de Xira , and in particular in Porto . There, the Portuguese branch of the YMCA ( Associação Cristã da Mocidade , under the direction of Portugal da Mata) promoted the new sport in northern Portugal, and a regional table tennis association was founded on February 18, 1929 with the Associação do Porto . This was the first table tennis association and thus the first table tennis organization in Portugal.

Up until now, the rackets were made of wood with a coating of cork, sandpaper or billiard table cover, but the attractiveness of the sport increased considerably with the advent of rubber surfaces, the picot anglais , which made more varied and therefore more spectacular moves possible. Some of the previously successful players could not keep up with the new style of play, while others were able to adapt well to it. The previously known Joaquim Cardozo won the individual championship in Lisbon ( Campeão Individual de Lisboa ) for his club Benfica in the 1932/33 season with the new rubber cover , without having lost a game against his 26 competitors.

On February 16, 1932, the Lisbon table tennis association Associação de Ping Pong de Lisboa was founded by the eight clubs Ateneu Comercial de Lisboa , Carnide Clube , Grupo Desportivo “Os Treze” , Grupo Sportivo Adicense , Lisboa Ginásio Clube , Maria Pia Sport Clube , Sport Lisboa e Benfica and Sporting Clube de Portugal . Henrique Pinto was a member of the association's rules committee ( Comissão dos Regulamentos Técnicos da Associação de Ping Pong de Lisboa ) in structuring table tennis in Lisbon. With the first doubles tournament, then called doubles , he also introduced the variant of doubles games in Portuguese table tennis.

From 6 to 12 July 1935, the table tennis team Benfica Lisbon was in Madeira , where they could win the four matches in Funchal .

Henrique Pinto was now not only an authority on table tennis regulations in Portugal, but also the most important referee in the country and not only led the finals of the Taça Fundação Cup and the Lisbon Regional Championships ( Campeonato de Lisboa ), but also the first international table tennis matches in Portugal, So on December 7, 1935 the victory of Benfica against a mixed Madrid selection (8: 1) and on December 8, 1935 the victory of a mixed Lisbon selection against the same Spanish team (7: 2).

The first competition between Lisbon and Porto took place on July 15, 1939 in the Palácio de Cristal in Porto. In the youth, mixed doubles and women categories, opening games took place before the selections for the men of Lisbon and Portos met. At the end of a tournament played in front of a large crowd, Lisbon won 4: 3.

The most successful table tennis club at the time was the Lisbon Académico Sport Clube , before it had to give up in 1937/38 after financial difficulties. After that, Benfica , Sporting , Carnide , Belenenses and the Lisboa Ginásio Clube were important, also from Lisbon, which accepted most of the players from the dissolved Académico .

Since the foundation

On October 27, 1944, the Portuguese table tennis association FPTM was founded in Lisbon. In 1945 the first national championship, the Campeonato Nacional, took place. Benfica Lisbon won the final on July 4, 1945 against the northern Portuguese club Académico do Porto 5-3. In 1947 the FPTM became a member of the world association ITTF . In the following period up to the Carnation Revolution in 1974, table tennis in Portugal was completely dominated by Lisbon clubs, particularly rivals Benfica and Sporting. Of all 156 national titles played in the various categories, 136 went to Lisbon clubs, 51 to Benfica and 31 to Sporting. Twelve went to Porto, five to Coimbra, two to Santarém and one to Leiria. In the case of women, it was even two individual players who dominated the action. Marília Santamarina (Sporting) won 14 singles and doubles championships in Portugal, while Manuela de Jesus (Benfica) won ten titles, including the first women's singles championship in Portugal in 1951. In 1947 Afonso Gago da Silva won the first national championship in men's singles.

After the Carnation Revolution on April 25, 1974, the association went through a process of democratization, and the balance of power in table tennis in Portugal slowly began to change. Between 1976 and 1999 it was now Sporting Lisbon that recorded the most wins with 35 of the 240 titles awarded. But other clubs also gained in playing strength, and no club was able to become champions in all categories at the same time, as had often happened before. In total there were now 50 clubs that won titles between 1976 and 1999, against the 38 between 1945 and 1975. For example, the Palmeiras Lisboa Clube had won the men's championship four times in a row, and the CF won it twice in a row Estrela Amadora . With the establishment of the regional association of Madeira, the Associação de Ténis de Mesa da Madeira , on March 10, 1988, Madeira also indicated a strengthened table tennis, and clubs from the island won 38 of the 240 national titles in various categories between 1976 and 1999.

The regional association of Bragança ( Associação de Bragança ) also gained increased importance, in particular through the association Clube de Ténis de Mesa de Mirandela from Mirandela , which now appeared as a new force in Portuguese table tennis and won nine national titles.

Ricardo Roberto won Portugal's first European title in 1994 in Paris, where he won a bronze medal in singles at the European Youth Championships. Roberto was also six times national champion in singles and three times in doubles. Elsa Henriques recently achieved three championships in a row with the championships in 1997, 1998 and 1999.

With the final victory over the German national table tennis team at the EM 2014 in their own country, the FPTM selection of men won the European title for the first time.

activities

The FPTM supports the Portuguese national teams in international competitions, including the World and European Championships, the Summer Olympic Games , and the Jogos da Lusofonia , the games of the Portuguese- speaking world . The FPTM also organized various international tournaments. The 2014 European Table Tennis Championships should be mentioned in particular ; the venue was the MEO Arena in Parque das Nações , in the capital Lisbon.

In addition, the association organizes the first Portuguese league with the Campeonato Nacional 1.ª Divisão . This is followed by the three-track second division with the 2.ª Divisão de Honra , with a north, a south and a Madeira zone. This is followed by the four groups of the third division, the 2.ª Divisão , which is divided into a Zona Norte, a Zona Centro-Norte, a Zona Centro-Sul and a Zona Sul.

The FPTM maintains its center of excellence ( Centro de Alto Rendimento , CAR) in Vila Nova de Gaia .

Known players

organization

structure

The president is Pedro Miguel Gaspar Dias Moura . In addition to the association management with a president and five vice-presidents, the association has a general assembly ( Assembleia Geral ) and five other organs:

  • Conselho Fiscal (German: Supervisory Board or Control Council, three-person)
  • Conselho de Disciplina (German: Disciplinary Council, three-person)
  • Conselho de Justiça (German: legal counsel, three-person)
  • Conselho de Arbitragem (German: Arbitration Council, three members)
  • Departamento Técnico (German technical department, one-person)

There is also a department for disabled sports ( Departamento Ténis de Mesa Adaptado ), a department for leisure and recreational sports ( Departamento Lazer e Desporto para todos ), and the two-person secretariat.

Spatially, the association is divided into regional sub-associations ( Associações ), which are largely based on the districts of the mainland and the two autonomous island regions Madeira and the Azores .

Finances

FPTM closed the 2014 financial year with a loss of € -8,499. Total income of € 1,471,077 (of which € 636,265 public grants) was offset by expenses totaling € 1,479,576.

The situation of the association corresponds to the generally difficult situation to a large extent of all Portuguese sports associations, which strive for increasing income and increased cost control with falling public subsidies, in an economically persistently difficult environment. The reasons are the government's rigid austerity policy and the tense overall economic situation in Portugal as a result of the euro crisis .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DRAFT MINUTES OF THE ITTF CONGRESS - PARIS - MARCH 4,8,1947 point 8. (accessed on September 26, 2015) ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ittf.com
  2. ^ History page of the Portuguese Table Tennis Association , accessed on September 7, 2015
  3. ↑ Page 21 of the FPTM Annual Report 2014 (pdf download), accessed on September 12, 2015

Coordinates: 38 ° 43 '28.7 "  N , 9 ° 8' 32.9"  W.