French national table tennis team

The French national table tennis team is the selected team of table tennis players who represent France at World Championships , European Championships , the European Games and the Olympic Games . The umbrella organization is the Fédération Française de Tennis de Table .

successes

World championships

• Silver (2): 1948 , 1997
• Bronze (4): 1936 , 1947 , 1950 , 1953

European championships

• Gold (3): 1984 , 1994 , 1998
• Silver (2): 1986 , 1996
• Bronze (4): 2002 , 2010 , 2015 , 2017

European Games

• Silver (1): 2015

European Nations Cup

• Gold (1): 1996
• Silver (2): 1992, 1994
• Bronze (3): 1991, 1997, 1998

history

World ranking positions of the best French table tennis players

After the French team won bronze at the 1953 World Cup , a long time followed without major successes. At the 1984 European Championships , the team won the first European Championship medal with gold, followed by silver in 1986 . In the 1990s France played successfully at the European Nations Cup , winning gold in 1994 and 1998 and silver in 1996 at the European Championships. The greatest success was winning the World Cup silver medal in 1997. At the 2002 European Championship , bronze was won again. From the beginning of the 21st century, however, the performance of the French team gradually declined, without good young players being able to move up. This situation improved from 2008, when the French youth team won the first of five consecutive European youth titles. In 2010 France won bronze again at the European Championship, in 2015 bronze at the European Championship and silver at the European Games . In the quarterfinals of the World Cup in 2016 , France lost against the previous group opponents England, the one in the preliminary round 3: had 0 beaten with 2: 3 and thus missed the first World Championship medal since 1997. 2016 France was also the first time for the team competition of the Olympic Games represented , but lost to the United Kingdom just 3-2 in the first game, with each game only ending in the decisive fifth set.

Current squad

• Tristan Flore ( AS Pontoise-Cergy TT )
• Simon Gauzy ( TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen )
• Emmanuel Lebesson ( SPO Rouen )
• Alexandre Robinot ( Chartres ASTT )
• Quentin Robinot ( GV Hennebont )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ittf.com: Press Release: Great Britain Break Records to Defeat France at Rio 2016 Team Event. (No longer available online.) August 3, 2016, archived from the original on October 19, 2016 ; accessed on August 5, 2017 . 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.  
2. ↑ fftt.com: La sélection française. Retrieved August 5, 2017 .