Gottfried Bear

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Gottfried Bär (born April 11, 1952 in Hallein ) is a former Austrian table tennis player . He was one of the best players in Austria in the late 1970s and 1980s and took part in the 1988 Olympic Games .

Career

Gottfried Bär played for the TTC Raiffeisen Kuchl club . After initial successes at the local level, he became Austrian school master in 1966. In 1979, 1983 and 1986 he won the Austrian state championship in the individual competition for adults . With the men of the TTC Raiffeisen Kuchl, he became Austrian team champions in 1975, 1976 and 1981. In 1983 he won the national ranking tournament.

Between 1979 and 1989 he took part in five world championships and four times in European championships , but never came close to medal ranks. In 1988 he qualified with Ding Yi for participation in the doubles competition at the Olympic Games , where they were eliminated in the preliminary round.

Later he played for the clubs Waldegg Linz, Stockerau, Police Vienna, before he returned to Kuchl in 1997. He received the ring of honor of the market town of Kuchl.

Private

Gottfried Bär is married.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
AUT Olympic games 1988 Seoul COR no participants immediately excluded
AUT World Championship 1989 Dortmund FRG last 128 last 64 no participants 23
AUT World Championship 1987 New Delhi IND last 32 last 32 last 64 15th
AUT World Championship 1985 Gothenburg SWE Agony last 64 no participants 21st
AUT World Championship 1983 Tokyo JPN Agony Agony Agony 27
AUT World Championship 1979 Pyongyang PRK Agony Agony Agony 22nd

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NÖ Tischtennis-Nachrichten 1983/12 page 14 (accessed on May 21, 2012; PDF; 906 kB)
  2. ↑ NÖTTV-TT-Magazin 1993/2 page 7 (accessed on February 14, 2016; PDF; 3.3 MB)
  3. ↑ NÖTTV-TT-Magazin 1995/6 page 13 (accessed on May 21, 2012; PDF; 943 kB)
  4. ↑ Gottfried Bär results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on May 21, 2012)

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personal data
SURNAME Bear, Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bear, Gotti (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Hallein