ITTF Merit Award
The ITTF Merit Award is an award given by the world table tennis association ITTF to people who do not work directly for the ITTF, but who have made a great contribution to table tennis within their national association.
There are no fixed criteria for awarding the ITTF Merit Award. If someone has made a contribution to table tennis, the associated national association can propose this person to the ITTF for the award of the award with a suitable reason. This proposal will then be discussed and decided by the Annual General Meeting (Executive Committee), which will take place at the next World Cup . The honoree receives a medal.
The ITTF Merit Award was an idea of former ITTF President Ichirō Ogimura . The award was given for the first time in 1989, and the first to be honored were the Englishman Bill Vint and Rudi Gruber from Germany, who was the president of the Bavarian and Southern German Association and sports director of the German Table Tennis Association DTTB .
Alternatives
The ITTF can honor individuals who have worked directly for the ITTF in the following ways:
- Honorary President
- Member of the President's personal advisory board
- Honorary member
Particularly successful athletes can be inducted into the Hall of Fame .
The holders of the Merit Award
| year | Award winners | TT Association |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Bill Vint | England |
| 1989 | Rudolf Gruber | Germany |
| 1989 | Werner Lüderitz | GDR |
| 1989 | Keith Bowler | Australia |
| 1989 | Margaret Walden | Canada |
| 1989 | Chen Xian | China |
| 1989 | Song Zhong | China |
| 1989 | Zhang Junhan | China |
| 1989 | Ernest Demetrovic | Czechoslovakia |
| 1989 | Pavol Hajek | Czechoslovakia |
| 1989 | Frantisek Hanek Pivec | Czechoslovakia |
| 1989 | Felix Przybylski | Poland |
| 1989 | Jerzy Dachowski | Poland |
| 1989 | Ron Crayden | England |
| 1989 | Jean Mercier | France |
| 1989 | Žarko Dolinar | Yugoslavia |
| 1989 | Slobodan Jeremic | Yugoslavia |
| 1989 | Mihovil Kapetanic | Yugoslavia |
| 1989 | Borivoje Popovic | Yugoslavia |
| 1989 | Mario de Costa Patricio | Portugal |
| 1989 | Juerg Vonaesch | Switzerland |
| 1989 | Werner Schnyder | Switzerland |
| 1989 | Hugo Urchetti | Switzerland |
| 1989 | Steve Boros | Hungary |
| 1989 | Tibor Horvath | Hungary |
| 1989 | György Lakatos | Hungary |
| 1989 | Ali Abali | Turkey |
| 1989 | Danyal Ciper | Turkey |
| 1989 | Joe Veselsky | Ireland |
| 1989 | Sheikh Abdul-Rahman Bin Rashid | Bahrain |
| 1989 | Spiro Abourjaily | Lebanon |
| 1989 | Amin Abou Heif | Egypt |
| 1989 | Chérif Hajem | Tunisia |
| 1989 | Gilson de Magalhaes Boscoli | Brazil |
| 1989 | Vittorio Zecchi | Uruguay |
| 1989 | Ken Wilkinson | New Zealand |
| 1989 | Chun Wing Kwong | Hong Kong |
| 1989 | Yue Yun-hing | Hong Kong |
| 1991 | Georges Roland | Belgium |
| 1991 | Ladislav Štípek | Spain |
| 1991 | Hisao Kido | Japan |
| 1991 | Hajime Takagi | Japan |
| 1991 | Yasuomi Miyamoto | Japan |
| 1991 | Hiroshi Yaoita | Japan |
| 1991 | James McClure | United States |
| 1991 | Sol ship | United States |
| 1991 | Leonid Makarov | Russia |
| 1991 | Helios Farrell | Mexico |
| 1991 | Soliman Al-Jabhan | Saudi Arabia |
| 1993 | Diane Schöler | Germany |
| 1993 | Vlasta Depetrisová | Czechoslovakia |
| 1993 | Marie Kettnerová | Czechoslovakia |
| 1993 | Stanislav Kolář | Czechoslovakia |
| 1993 | Farkas Paneth | Romania |
| 1993 | Henk Van Dilst | Netherlands |
| 1993 | Bas den Breejen | Netherlands |
| 1993 | Ferenc Sidó | Hungary |
| 1993 | B. Denis George | Scotland |
| 1993 | Chandra Madosingh | Canada |
| 1993 | Ismat El Kurdi | Jordan |
| 1993 | Fayez Yousef Nowar | Jordan |
| 1993 | Fawzi Yousef Diya | Jordan |
| 1993 | Michel Sbat | Lebanon |
| 1993 | Horace Mallet | guernsey |
| 1995 | Odd Gustavsen | Norway |
| 1995 | Ben Dawson | Scotland |
| 1995 | ET Nakhla | Egypt |
| 1995 | Neil Harwood | Australia |
| 1995 | Radivoj Hudetz | Croatia |
| 1995 | Zdenko Uzorinac | Croatia |
| 1995 | Patrick Chu | Ghana |
| 1995 | Tim Boggan | United States |
| 1996 | Liang Zhuohui | China |
| 1996 | Qiu Zhonghui | China |
| 1996 | Wang Chuanyao | China |
| 1997 | José Manuel Antunes Amaro | Portugal |
| 1997 | Jane Pinto | Kenya |
| 1997 | Fouad Nicolas Habib | Lebanon |
| 1997 | Carlos Taranto | Uruguay |
| 1999 | Franklin Mathilda | Netherlands Antilles |
| 1999 | Edith Santifaller | Italy |
| 1999 | Alan Ransome | England |
| 1999 | Johnny Leach | England |
| 2000 | Colin Clemett | England |
| 2001 | Dusan Osmanagic | Yugoslavia |
| 2001 | Nikola Uveric | Yugoslavia |
| 2001 | Hu Bingquan | China |
| 2001 | Liang Youneng | China |
| 2001 | Xu Shaofa | China |
| 2001 | George Michel Hani | Lebanon |
| 2002 | Wang Dayong | China |
| 2003 | Ivam Passos Vinhas | Brazil |
| 2003 | Henrik Pedersen | Denmark |
| 2003 | Claude Bergeret | France |
| 2003 | MC Chowhan | India |
| 2005 | Yuri Posevin | Russia |
| 2007 | Hans-Jürgen Haase | Germany |
| 2007 | Zhang Xielin | China |
| 2008 | Sun Qilin | China |
| 2009 | Yao Zhenxu | China |
| 2009 | Geoffrey Reed | jersey |
| 2009 | Berthe Bakhary | jersey |
| 2011 | Cor you buy | Netherlands |
| 2013 | Richard Yule | England |
| ???? | Cheng Jiayan | China |
| ???? | Wu Huanqun | China |
| ???? | Zhang Jiafu | China |
| ???? | Renato de Aguero Fernandez | Cuba |
| ???? | J. Rufford Harrison | United States |
| ???? | Roy Evans | Wales |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b ITTF archive selection: year "1989 Dortmund" - 8.BGM p.8 - point 18. ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2011 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. (accessed on October 15, 2011)
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1991/1 page 21
- ↑ posthumously
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1993/6 page 10
- ↑ a b DTS magazine , 1999/9 page 24
- ↑ a b c d Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2012 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 October 15, 2011)
- ↑ SH: Hans-Jürgen Haase receives ITTF Merit Award ( memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. News from May 26, 2007 on tischtennis.de (accessed on July 21, 2014)
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2012 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 October 15, 2011)
- ↑ a b c Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 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 on October 15, 2011)
- ↑ http://www.butterflyonline.com/2011/11WCOC.asp (accessed October 15, 2011)
Web links
- MeritAwards at ittf.com/museum (accessed on July 21, 2014; PDF; 16 kB)