Finn Tugwell

Finn Tugwell (born March 18, 1976 in Aarhus ) is a Danish table tennis player . At the 2004 Olympic Games , he won bronze in doubles. He also became European team champion in 2005 .

Career

From 1993 to 2010 Tugwell took part in twelve world championships . He did not succeed in winning a medal. In 2004 he reached the double semifinals with Michael Maze at the ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals . He has been nominated for European championships several times , namely in 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009. He was European champion in 2005 with the Danish team, and in 2009 the team came second.

His greatest success so far was at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens when he won the bronze medal in doubles with Michael Maze .

In the ITTF world rankings he is currently (June 2011) in 169th place. He had his highest ranking position in October 2004 with 65th place.

Activities in Germany

In 1995 Tugwell left the Danish club Horning BTK and joined the German club Eintracht Leer. In 2000 he moved to Würzburger Hofbräu and helped their men's team to rise to the 1st Bundesliga . In 2002 he went to DJK Offenburg and the following year to TTC metabo Frickenhausen . In 2004 he left Germany and went to France for the SAG Cestas TT. He stayed here for four years and returned to Roskilde in Denmark in 2008.

National championships

Tugwell won several titles at the Danish National Championships:

• Singles - four titles: 2001, 2004, 2005, 2009
• Double - eight titles: 1994, 1995, 1997 with Lars Hauth , 2001, 2002, 2009, 2010, 2011 with Allan Bentsen
• Teams: 1993, 1994, 1995 with Horning, 2009, 2010, 2011 with Roskilde.

Tugwell won the TOP12 ranking tournament in 1995, 2002 and 2004. In April 2011, he finished third in the Danish national ranking.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
	European Championship	2009	Stuttgart					2
	European Championship	2005	Aarhus					1
	European Championship	2003	Courmayeur			Quarter finals
	European Championship	2002	Zagreb			Quarter finals
	Nordic championships	1998	Oslo					1
	Olympic games	2004	Athens			bronze
	Olympic games	2000	Sydney		no participants	last 16
	Pro tour	2010	Berlin		last 64
	Pro tour	2010	Doha		last 64
	Pro tour	2009	Tianjin		last 64
	Pro tour	2009	Frederikshavn		last 32
	Pro tour	2009	Frederikshavn			last 16
	Pro tour	2008	Velenje		last 64
	Pro tour	2007	Stockholm		last 64
	Pro tour	2007	St. Petersburg		last 32
	Pro tour	2007	Shenzhen		last 16	last 16
	Pro tour	2007	Velenje		last 64
	Pro tour	2006	Belgrade		last 64
	Pro tour	2006	Yokohama		last 64
	Pro tour	2006	Zagreb		last 64
	Pro tour	2005	Yokohama		last 64
	Pro tour	2005	Fort Lauderdale		last 64	last 16
	Pro tour	2005	Zagreb		last 64	last 16
	Pro tour	2004	Leipzig			Semifinals
	Pro tour	2004	Aarhus		last 64	silver
	Pro tour	2004	Kobe		last 32	Quarter finals
	Pro tour	2004	Chicago		last 32
	Pro tour	2004	Rio de Janeiro		last 16	Quarter finals
	Pro tour	2004	Croatia		last 64	Quarter finals
	Pro tour	2003	Malmo		last 64	Scratched
	Pro tour	2003	Aarhus		last 32
	Pro tour	2003	Bremen		last 64
	Pro tour	2003	Guangzhou		last 32
	Pro tour	2003	Rio de Janeiro		last 32	Quarter finals
	Pro tour	2002	Farum		last 64
	Pro tour	2002	Magdeburg		last 64
	Pro tour	2002	Kobe		last 64	Quarter finals
	Pro tour	2002	Gangneung		last 32	last 16
	Pro tour	2002	São Paulo		last 32	last 16
	Pro tour	2002	Fort Lauderdale		last 64	last 16
	Pro tour	2002	Doha		last 16	last 16
	Pro tour	2001	Farum		Rd 1	Quarter finals
	Pro tour	2001	Skovde			Quarter finals
	Pro tour	2001	Rotterdam			last 16
	Pro tour	2001	Bayreuth			last 32
	Pro tour	2001	Yokohama		Rd 1	Semifinals
	Pro tour	2001	Seoul		last 32	last 16
	Pro tour	2001	Fort Lauderdale		Rd 1	last 16
	Pro tour	2001	Sao Paulo		last 32	Quarter finals
	Pro tour	2001	Doha		last 64	last 16
	Pro tour	2000	Farum		Rd 1	last 16
	Pro tour	2000	Umeå		last 32	last 16
	Pro tour	2000	Warsaw			last 16
	Pro tour	2000	Toulouse		Rd 1	Quarter finals
	Pro tour	2000	Kobe		last 16	Quarter finals
	Pro tour	1999	Karlskrona			last 16
	Pro tour	1999	Bremen		Rd 1
	Pro tour	1999	Hopton-on-Sea		last 32	Rd 1
	Pro tour	1999	Doha			last 16
	Pro tour	1998	Belgrade		Rd 1
	Pro tour	1998	Jinan			Rd 1
	Pro tour	1998	Melbourne		Rd 1	Rd 1
	Pro tour	1997	Gdańsk			last 16
	Pro tour	1997	Kettering			last 16
	Pro tour	1996	Bolzano			Semifinals
	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2004	Beijing			Semifinals
	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2001	Hainan			Quarter finals
	World Championship	2010	Moscow					23
	World Championship	2008	Guangzhou					11
	World Championship	2007	Zagreb		last 64	last 16	no participants
	World Championship	2006	Bremen					24
	World Championship	2005	Shanghai		last 64	last 16
	World Championship	2004	Doha					15th
	World Championship	2005	Paris		last 128	last 32
	World Championship	2001	Osaka		last 128	last 32	no participants	33
	World Championship	2000	Kuala Lumpur					13-16
	World Championship	1999	Eindhoven		Agony	last 32	last 256
	World Championship	1997	Manchester		Rd 3	last 32	last 128	21st
	World Championship	1993	Gothenburg		Agony	Agony	Agony	18th

Individual evidence

1. ↑ EM 2007 ( Memento from June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 13, 2016; PDF file; 1.61 MB)
2. ↑ World ranking list ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2010 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 June 25, 2011)  
3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1995/8 page 33
4. ↑ DTS magazine , 2000/6 page 29
5. ↑ TT-Archiv Hans-Albert Meyer (accessed on June 25, 2011) (PDF file; 47 kB)
6. ↑ Change of club 2003 ( Memento from September 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on June 25, 2011)
7. ↑ Change of club 2005 ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed June 25, 2011)
8. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2008/6 page 7
9. ↑ Danish Championships Singles (accessed February 3, 2016)
10. ↑ Danish championships doubles (accessed February 3, 2016)
11. ↑ Danish championship teams (accessed on February 3, 2016)
12. ↑ TOP12 ( Memento from September 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on June 28, 2011)
13. ↑ Danish ranking (accessed June 28, 2011)
14. ^ Finn Tugwell results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 16, 2011)

Web links

• Finn Tugwell in the Sports-Reference database (archived from the original ), accessed June 25, 2011
• Finn Tugwell biography on the website of the World Table Tennis Federation ittf.com (accessed August 5, 2011)