Jörg Roßkopf

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Jörg Roßkopf Table tennis player
Jörg Roßkopf
Jörg Roßkopf (2012)
Nation: GermanyGermany Germany
Date of birth: May 22, 1969
Place of birth: The castle
Playing hand: left handed
How to play: Shakehand
Best world ranking : 4 (Aug 1992, Nov 1995)
Best continental ranking: 1 (May 1992)
Clubs as active:
1973-1984 GermanyGermany DJK Blau-Weiß Münster (Hesse) (District League)
1984-1986 GermanyGermany FTG Frankfurt (2nd BL)
1986-2000 GermanyGermany Borussia Düsseldorf
2000-2007 GermanyGermany TTV patrons
2007-2009 GermanyGermany TTC Jülich
2009-2010 GermanyGermany TG Hanau
2011 GermanyGermany DJK Blau-Weiß Münster (Oberliga)
Clubs as trainers:
2008 GermanyGermany DTTB

Jörg "Rossi" Roßkopf (born May 22, 1969 in Dieburg ) is a German table tennis player . Until the end of his professional career in April 2010, he was considered one of the best German table tennis players. Roßkopf is left-handed, shake hand player and had an aggressive game with an emphasis on forehand topspin and diagonal backhand counter. His highest world ranking position was fourth in August 1992 and November 1995. In the German ranking he was number one for many years. In the amateur area, Rosskopf is currently still playing for DJK Blau-Weiß Münster in the Oberliga Hessen. Roßkopf has been national table tennis coach since August 2010.

Life

Roßkopf grew up in Münster (Hesse) . He left the comprehensive school in Münster with the secondary school certificate in order to devote himself entirely to table tennis. At that time he lived mainly in Duisburg in the German table tennis center DTTZ . Roßkopf has been married since June 1994 and has three children. His brother Thomas (born December 2, 1966) also played successfully in the 1st Bundesliga.

Career as a player

Jörg Roßkopf at a Bundesliga game
Jörg Roßkopf on the ITTF Pro Tour 2004
Jörg Roßkopf dressed for the 2012 Olympic Games

Highlights

He achieved a great surprise success in 1989 at the Table Tennis World Championships in Dortmund . On April 8, 1989, he won the gold medal at the side of Steffen Fetzner in the double final against the Polish-Yugoslav combination Leszek Kucharski / Zoran Kalinić with 2-1 sets.

At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona he won the silver medal in doubles, again with Steffen Fetzner. It was the first medal that Germany won at the Olympic table tennis competition. At the games four years later in Atlanta he was third in the men's singles. In 1992 he became European champion in the individual competition in Stuttgart. In the European rankings of May 1992, he was the second German after Eberhard Schöler .

In the 1990s Roßkopf changed the dual partner. With Wladimir Samsonow he formed a successful pair, which u. a. won the European Championship in 1998 . After this European Championship, this doubles split because at the Olympic Games only doubles with players from one nation were allowed. Also in 1998 he became the first German player to win the World Cup .

Throughout 2002, Rosskopf suffered from an injury. Nevertheless, he managed a comeback at the European Championships when he reached the semi-finals in the individual and won silver with the team.

In 2004 he was able to fulfill a great dream with the German national team and win the silver medal in the team competition at the World Cup in Doha . Although he was not called up in the final, he still contributed to the success with victories against world number four Chuang Chih-Yuan from Taiwan and other strong opponents.

Roßkopf took part in five Olympic Games (1988-2004) as an active player , and in 2012 he coached German players for the first time as national coach.

Tournament participation

titles and achievements

  • From 1988 to 1993 and 1996 to 1997 he was a total of eight German individual champions
  • European champion 1992 in singles 3-1 victory in the final against Jean-Michel Saive , after beating Ioannis Kordoutis (Greece), Zsolt Harczi (Hungary), Petr Korbel (Czechoslovakia), Chen Xinhua (Great Britain) and Zoran Primorac (Croatia) prevailed.
  • 1998 European champion in doubles with Vladimir Samsonov
  • European champion 2007 with the team. However, he was only used as a substitute in one of the four rounds.
  • 2nd place European Championship 1990 with the team
  • 2nd place European Championship 2000 with the team
  • 2nd place European Championship 2003 with the team
  • 1989 world champion in doubles with Steffen Fetzner
  • 2nd place World Championship 2004 with the team
  • Silver medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in doubles with Steffen Fetzner
  • Bronze medal Olympic Games 1996 in individual
  • 1998 World Cup winner
  • 2nd place Europe TOP-12 1992
  • Eleven times winner in the national ranking tournament
  • 1986 European youth champion in doubles with Steffen Fetzner
  • German student champion 1983

Career as a coach

In September 2008, Roßkopf became a men's assistant trainer for the German Table Tennis Association DTTB . At the end of 2009 he was appointed national table tennis coach. On August 1, 2010, he succeeded Richard Prause . Under his direction, the German men immediately won the gold medal in singles, doubles and with the team at the 2010 European Championships , and in 2011 they managed to defend their titles in individual and team competitions. In 2012 the German team was runner-up in Dortmund.

In 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2018 he was named Trainer of the Year by the Association of German Table Tennis Trainers (VDTT) for his successes .

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
GER European Championship 2007 Belgrade SRB 1
GER European Championship 2003 Courmayeur ITA Semifinals 2
GER European Championship 2000 Bremen GER Quarter finals 2
GER European Championship 1998 Eindhoven NED gold
GER European Championship 1996 Bratislava SVK Quarter finals Semifinals
GER European Championship 1994 Birmingham CLOSELY Quarter finals Semifinals
GER European Championship 1992 Stuttgart GER gold Quarter finals Quarter finals
FRG European Championship 1990 Gothenburg SWE Semifinals silver 2
FRG European Championship 1988 Paris FRA Semifinals Quarter finals
FRG European Youth Championship (Juniors) 1986 Louvin La Neuve BEL gold
FRG European Youth Championship (Juniors) 1984 Linz AUT silver
GER EURO TOP12 2004 Frankfurt GER 5th place
GER EURO TOP12 2003 Saarbrücken GER 9th place
GER EURO TOP12 2001 catfish AUT 5
GER EURO TOP12 2000 Alassio ITA 3
GER EURO TOP12 1999 Split HRV 5
GER EURO TOP12 1998 Halmstad SWE 5
GER EURO TOP12 1997 Eindhoven NED 7th
GER EURO TOP12 1996 Charleroi BEL 5
GER EURO TOP12 1995 Dijon FRA 5
GER EURO TOP12 1994 Arezzo ITA 5
GER EURO TOP12 1993 Copenhagen THE 3
GER EURO TOP12 1992 Vienna AUT 2
FRG EURO TOP12 1991 Hertogenbosch NED 5
FRG EURO TOP12 1990 Hanover FRG 5
FRG EURO TOP12 1989 Charleroi BEL 7th
FRG EURO TOP12 1988 Ljubljana YUG 6th
GER Olympic games 2004 Athens GRE last 32 last 32
GER Olympic games 2000 Sydney OUT Quarter finals immediately excluded
GER Olympic games 1996 Atlanta United States bronze 4th
GER Olympic games 1992 Barcelona ESP Quarter finals silver
FRG Olympic games 1988 Seoul COR immediately excluded immediately excluded
GER Pro tour 2007 Bremen GER last 32
GER Pro tour 2007 catfish AUT last 32
GER Pro tour 2007 St. Petersburg RUS last 64
GER Pro tour 2007 Shenzhen CHN last 64 last 16
GER Pro tour 2007 Taipei TPE last 16 Quarter finals
GER Pro tour 2007 Chiba JPN last 64
GER Pro tour 2007 Seongnam COR last 32 last 16
GER Pro tour 2007 Belo Horizonte BRA Quarter finals Semifinals
GER Pro tour 2007 Belo Horizonte BRA Quarter finals Semifinals
GER Pro tour 2007 Salwa Cup KUW last 64
GER Pro tour 2007 Doha QAT last 16 silver
GER Pro tour 2007 Velenje SVN last 64
GER Pro tour 2007 Zagreb HRV last 32 Quarter finals
GER Pro tour 2006 Bayreuth GER last 32
GER Pro tour 2006 Yokohama JPN last 64
GER Pro tour 2006 Guangzhou CHN last 32
GER Pro tour 2006 Jeonju COR last 16 last 16
GER Pro tour 2006 Kuwait City KUW last 32 last 16
GER Pro tour 2006 Doha QAT last 32
GER Pro tour 2006 Zagreb HRV Quarter finals
GER Pro tour 2005 Shenzhen CHN last 16
GER Pro tour 2005 Rio de Janeiro BRA Semifinals last 16
GER Pro tour 2005 Doha QAT last 32 Quarter finals
GER Pro tour 2005 Zagreb HRV last 16
GER Pro tour 2004 St. Petersburg RUS last 16 Semifinals
GER Pro tour 2004 catfish AUT last 32
GER Pro tour 2004 Leipzig GER last 32
GER Pro tour 2004 Aarhus THE last 16 Quarter finals
GER Pro tour 2004 Warsaw POLE Quarter finals Quarter finals
GER Pro tour 2004 Singapore SIN last 32 Quarter finals
GER Pro tour 2004 Athens GRE last 64
GER Pro tour 2003 Aarhus THE last 32 last 16
GER Pro tour 2003 Bremen GER last 16
GER Pro tour 2003 Johor Bahru MAS last 16 last 16
GER Pro tour 2003 Kobe JPN last 64
GER Pro tour 2003 Doha QAT last 32 gold
GER Pro tour 2003 Croatia HRV last 32
GER Pro tour 2002 Kobe JPN last 64
GER Pro tour 2001 Farum THE last 32 Scratched
GER Pro tour 2001 Skovde SWE Quarter finals last 16
GER Pro tour 2001 Rotterdam NED last 16 Semifinals
GER Pro tour 2001 Bayreuth GER last 32 Semifinals
GER Pro tour 2001 Fort Lauderdale United States Quarter finals Quarter finals
GER Pro tour 2001 São Paulo BRA last 32 Quarter finals
GER Pro tour 2001 Zagreb HRV last 16 Rd 1
GER Pro tour 2001 Doha QAT last 32 last 16
GER Pro tour 2001 Chatham CLOSELY last 32 Semifinals
GER Pro tour 2000 Farum THE Semifinals Quarter finals
GER Pro tour 2000 Umeå SWE Quarter finals last 16
GER Pro tour 2000 Warsaw POLE Semifinals last 16
GER Pro tour 2000 Toulouse FRA Quarter finals last 16
GER Pro tour 1999 Karlskrona SWE last 32 last 16
GER Pro tour 1999 Bremen GER last 32 Quarter finals
GER Pro tour 1999 Kobe City JPN Semifinals last 16
GER Pro tour 1999 Guilin CHN last 32 last 16
GER Pro tour 1999 Doha QAT last 16 Semifinals
GER Pro tour 1998 Sundsvall SWE last 32 Semifinals
GER Pro tour 1998 Courmayeur ITA last 16 last 16
GER Pro tour 1998 Zagreb HRV Quarter finals Quarter finals
GER Pro tour 1998 Doha QAT last 16 Semifinals
GER Pro tour 1997 Lyon FRA Quarter finals Semifinals
GER Pro tour 1997 Squid SWE last 32 last 16
GER Pro tour 1997 Linz AUT Quarter finals gold
GER Pro tour 1997 Zhuhai CHN last 32 Semifinals
GER Pro tour 1997 Chiba JPN Semifinals Quarter finals
GER Pro tour 1997 Doha QAT last 16 Semifinals
GER Pro tour 1997 Kettering CLOSELY Semifinals Quarter finals
GER Pro tour 1996 Lyon FRA Semifinals
GER Pro tour 1996 Bolzano ITA Quarter finals
GER Pro tour 1996 Kettering CLOSELY Semifinals Quarter finals
GER Pro Tour Grand Finals 2000 Kobe City JPN last 16
GER Pro Tour Grand Finals 1997 Hong Kong HKG last 16 silver
GER Pro Tour Grand Finals 1996 Tian Jin CHN Semifinals silver
GER World Championship 2008 Guangzhou CHN 7th
GER World Championship 2007 Zagreb HRV last 64 last 32 no participants
GER World Championship 2006 Bremen GER 3
GER World Championship 2005 Shanghai CHN last 32 last 32
GER World Championship 2004 Doha QAT 2
GER World Championship 2003 Paris FRA last 64 last 32
GER World Championship 2001 Osaka JPN last 16 last 16 no participants 7th
GER World Championship 2000 Kuala Lumpur MAS 5-8
FRG World Championship 1999 Eindhoven NED last 64 last 16 no participants
GER World Championship 1997 Manchester CLOSELY last 64 Quarter finals no participants 4th
GER World Championship 1995 Tianjin CHN last 16 last 16 no participants 5
GER World Championship 1993 Gothenburg SWE last 16 last 32 no participants 3
GER World Championship 1991 Chiba City JPN last 16 Quarter finals Quarter finals 5
FRG World Championship 1989 Dortmund FRG last 32 gold last 64 7th
FRG World Championship 1987 New Delhi IND last 128 last 32 no participants 7th
FRG World Championship 1985 Gothenburg SWE last 32 last 64 Agony 17th
FRG World cup 2001 Courmayeur ITA 3
FRG World cup 1998 Shantou CHN gold
FRG World cup 1997 Nimes FRA 5th-8th space
FRG World cup 1996 Nimes FRA 5th-8th space
GER World cup 1995 Nimes FRA silver
GER World cup 1994 Taipei CHN 9-12 space
GER World cup 1993 Guangzhou SWE 9-12 space
GER World Doubles Cup 1992 Las Vegas United States Semifinals
FRG World Doubles Cup 1990 Seoul COR silver
GER WTC World Team Cup 1995 Atlanta United States 2
GER WTC World Team Cup 1994 Nimes FRA 5
GER WTC World Team Cup 1991 Barcelona ESP 9

literature

  • Michael Reinsch: Jörg's goal: table tennis professional , DTS magazine , 1985/1 yellow regional section, page 3 (published in the FAZ )
  • Gerlinde Glatzer-Bittner : We have been waiting for someone like him since the time of Eberhard Schöler: Jörg Roßkopf , DTS magazine , 1988/8, pages 43–44
  • Dietmar Fuchs: The Rossi and Speedy story , seven-part series, DTS magazine , 1990/3 pages 36-37, 1990/4 pages 44-45, 1990/5 pages 48-49, 1990/6 pages 34-35, 1990 / 9 pages 42–43
  • Manfred Schillings: What the people around Jörg Roßkopf say - You have to like him , DTS magazine , 1992/6, pages 26-29

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Profile of Jörg Roßkopf on ittf.com ( Memento from March 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  2. ↑ a b DTS magazine , 1992/6 page 35 + 1992/7 page 38
  3. ↑ Roßkopf resigns with a sense of achievement. Focus.de. April 11, 2010, accessed April 12, 2010.
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/5 page 38
  5. ^ ITTF statistics ( Memento of October 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  6. ↑ a b Tournament overview of the ITTF ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1992/5 Page 9
  8. ↑ DTS magazine , 1984/4 page 29
  9. ↑ VDTT / SH: Jury again chooses Jörg Roßkopf as Trainer of the Year 2013/14 , report from October 20, 2014 on tischtennis.de (accessed on December 9, 2018) + table tennis magazine , 2018/12 page 7
  10. ↑ ITTF database (accessed July 12, 2020)

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personal data
SURNAME Roßkopf, Jörg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roßkopf, Rossi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH The castle