Hugo Urchetti

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Hugo Urchetti (born May 10, 1919 in Luino ; † August 5, 2004 in Geneva ) was a Swiss table tennis player and official. In the 1940s and 1950s he was the leading player in Switzerland. For his services to table tennis he was awarded the ITTF Merit Award .

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Hugo Urchetti initially did cycling (Velo) and tennis before he concentrated on table tennis. He won numerous titles at the Swiss National Championships : from 1942 to 1964 he was champion 16 times in singles, 19 times in doubles and 13 times in mixed. With TTC Silver Star Geneva he was from 1936 to 1963 every year, with the exception of 1943, Swiss team champion, a total of 27 times. At the International Swiss Championships between 1937 and 1955 he won nine times in singles, eleven times in doubles and ten times in mixed.

Urchetti was nominated a total of eight times between 1947 and 1957 for participation in world championships , where he was fifth with the Swiss team in 1950 .

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Hugo Urchetti was president of the Swiss club TTC Silver Star Geneva for 57 years , where he also took care of youth training and the promotion of young talent. In 1967 he was one of the co-founders of the Swaythling Club International . From 1963 to 1969 and 1972 to 1975 he was President of the Swiss Table Tennis Association (STTV). Here he coordinated the cooperation between the eight regional associations. He also campaigned for table tennis to become an Olympic sport. For this, the International Olympic Committee IOC awarded him the Olympic Medal in 2000 . As early as 1989 the world association ITTF recognized his services and presented him with the ITTF Merit Award .

Private

Hugo Urchetti's father was northern Italian, his mother came from Ticino. In the mid-1950s he married the Swiss national player Marie-Jeanne. He earned his living as CFO at Givaudan .

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
SUI World Championship 1957 Stockholm SWE last 32 last 64 last 64 17th
SUI World Championship 1955 Utrecht NED last 64 last 64 last 64 14th
SUI World Championship 1954 Wembley CLOSELY last 64 last 16 last 128 25th
SUI World Championship 1953 Bucharest ROU last 128 last 32 no participants 13
SUI World Championship 1951 Vienna AUT last 128 last 64 last 32 7th
SUI World Championship 1950 Budapest HUN last 16 last 64 no participants 5
SUI World Championship 1949 Stockholm SWE last 64 last 64 Scratched 13
SUI World Championship 1947 Paris FRA last 32 last 64 Quarter finals 13

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Le prestigieux palmarès d'Hugo Urchetti ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2016 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. , Journal de Genève , January 17, 1964, p. 9.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.letempsarchives.ch
  2. ↑ Nos portraits: Hugo Urchetti ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2016 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. , Gazette de Lausanne , March 21, 1945, p. 4.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.letempsarchives.ch
  3. ↑ ... the death of our founder member and Honorary President Mr. Hugo Urchetti on the 5th August 2004 at the age of 85 years. ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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 on November 28, 2011)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ittf.com
  4. ↑ National individual championships in Switzerland in the STTV yearbook 2004-2005 page 353 (accessed on February 5, 2016; PDF; 1.7 MB)
  5. ↑ International Championships of Switzerland in the STTV yearbook 2004-2005 page 352 (accessed on February 5, 2016; PDF; 1.7 MB)
  6. ^ Marie-Jeanne Urchetti Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed November 28, 2011)
  7. ↑ Hugo Urchetti results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed November 28, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Urchetti, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss table tennis player and official
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Luino
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 2004
Place of death Geneva