János Takács (table tennis player)
János Takács [ ˈjaːnoʃ ˈtɒkaːtʃ ] (born December 5, 1954 ) is a former Hungarian table tennis player .
Life
In 1979, Takács became world champions in Pyongyang with the Hungarian team, which also included Gábor Gergely , István Jónyer , Tibor Klampár and Tibor Kreisz . He still took part in the 1985 World Championships and the 1978 and 1980 European Championships .
Takács initially played football, but eventually decided to play table tennis. He was initially trained by Zoltán Berczik . After twenty years at VSC Budapest - during this time he was Hungarian champion eight times - Takács went to the German Bundesliga in 1986 , where he played for Spvg Steinhagen for a year . In 1987 he moved to ATSV Saarbrücken , with whom he became German team champion in 1989. Further stations were TTC Frickenhausen (1990, 2nd Bundesliga), Spvg. Ludwigsburg and TSV Elektronik Gornsdorf (1993), FC Neureut , Geneva (from 2000).
In 2007 he started for Switzerland , where he plays with the club CTT Carouge in the NLC class, at the Senior European Championship and won the gold medal in the O50 singles.
Results from the ITTF database
Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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HUN | European Championship | 1980 | Bern | SUI | Quarter finals | |||
HUN | European Championship | 1978 | Duisburg | FRG | last 16 | |||
HUN | EURO TOP12 | 1980 | Munich | FRG | 10 | |||
HUN | EURO TOP12 | 1979 | Kristianstad | SWE | 8th | |||
HUN | World Championship | 1985 | Gothenburg | SWE | last 32 | Agony | no participants | 13 |
HUN | World Championship | 1979 | Pyongyang | PRK | last 32 | last 32 | last 32 | 1 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ sport-komplett.de
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1976/5, page 18
- ↑ 40 years of the Bundesliga ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2017 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. at the DTTL (accessed on January 10, 2016)
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1990/9, page 19
- ↑ Magazine DTS , 1993/8 regional / South, page 21
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1998/6 page 8
- ↑ DTS magazine , 2000/8 page 51
- ↑ Archive EUROPEAN VETERANS CHAMPIONSHIPS ( Memento from June 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 10, 2016)
- ↑ János Takács (table tennis player) Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 15, 2011)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Takács, János |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian table tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | 5th December 1954 |