Jörg Bitzigeio

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Jörg Bitzigeio (born December 19, 1976 in Andernach ) is a German table tennis player and trainer. From 2006 to February 2012 he was the national coach of the German women's table tennis team .

Active player

Bitzigeio played from the beginning of the 1990s to 2006 in the second division , first with TVB Nassau, later until 2000 with WTTF Ramstein. After an interlude at TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt from 2000 to 2003 , he returned to WTTF Ramstein. In the 2006/07 season he played with DT Dudelange in the first division of Luxembourg, then he joined the regional division TSV Besse, and in 2011 he moved to ASV Wuppertal .

The year 2004 was successful when he finished third in the German mixed championship with Jie Schöpp . In the same year he won the German university championships in doubles and mixed, in singles he reached the final.

Trainer

Since 1995 Bitzigeio acted as a coach, initially for the team of the TTF Ramstein, in which he also played himself. In 2003 he acquired the A license for coaches. At the beginning of 2005 he became an honorary trainer for the German Table Tennis Association DTTB . After Tobias Beck left , he became his successor on January 1, 2006 as the national coach of the German women's national team. Under his leadership, Wu Jiaduo became European champion in 2009 , and the women's team won bronze at the 2010 World Cup . In February 2012, he resigned as national coach due to differences of opinion with the team members, his successor was Jie Schöpp . Until July 2015 he worked in the junior division at the German Table Tennis Center in Düsseldorf, after which he separated from the DTTB - after differences. An obligation as a trainer and manager at the TTC Grenzau in February 2016 was canceled after a few days.

In May 2016 Jörg Bitzigeio took over responsibility for planning training and further education for trainers at the German Canoe Association . From July 2017 to August 2019 he was the Sports Director (High Performance Director) of USA Table Tennis (USATT), the table tennis association of the United States of America.

Private

Bitzigeio studied business administration and sport at the German Sport University Cologne and graduated with a diploma in 2010. He has been married since 2007 and has a son and a daughter. He lived in Breitscheid (Ratingen) until 2017 . Since July 2017 he has been living with his family in Colorado Springs USA.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
GER  Pro tour  2005  Zagreb  HRV   last 64       
GER  Pro tour  2005  Velenje  SVN   last 64       
GER  Pro tour  2002  São Paulo  BRA   last 32  last 16   

swell

  • Simone Hinz: No new territory for Jörg Bitzigeio , tischtennis magazine , 2005/11 page 31
  • Susanne Heuing: Mister 100 percent , table tennis magazine , 2011/2 pages 8–12
  • Portrait (PDF) (accessed January 1, 2016)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1993/8 p. 40 + 2000/6 p. 25 + club change 2003 Bergneustadt to Ramstein ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on 18 September 2012) + club change 2007 Dudelange to Besse ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on September 18, 2012)
  2. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2011/9 regional West page 2
  3. ↑ Susanne Heuing: The spirits divide , tischtennis magazine , 2012/3 pages 16-17
  4. ↑ Ulrich Hartmann: The calm after the coup: The German table tennis women have freed themselves from coach Bitzigeio - but does less rigor bring success? , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 29, 2012, page 43
  5. ↑ Announcement from February 6, 2012 on tischtennis.de ( Memento of the original from February 7, 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tischtennis.de
  6. ↑ SH: DTTB and Jörg Bitzigeio split up , report from June 24, 2015 on tischtennis.de ( memento of the original from June 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed June 25, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tischtennis.de
  7. ↑ The refused handshake - tischtennis magazine , 2017/6 page 30
  8. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2016/3 page 34
  9. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2016/6 page 6
  10. ↑ a b ms: Make America great: Bitzigeio new sports director of the USA ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Message from April 11, 2017 on tischtennis.de (accessed on April 11, 2017) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tischtennis.de
  11. ↑ JS: Jörg Bitzigeio is no longer US sports director , news from September 13, 2019 (accessed on September 17, 2019)
  12. ↑ Jörg Bitzigeio Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 3, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Bitzigeio, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis trainer
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Then after