Jaroslav Kunz

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Jaroslav Kunz (born August 28, 1946 in Prague ) is a former Czechoslovak table tennis player and today's German table tennis trainer. He is vice European champion in doubles.

International success

Jaroslav Kunz played almost 200 international matches for the CSSR. Between 1963 and 1978 he took part in six world championships and six European championships . At the 1971 World Cup , he reached the quarter-finals in singles (where he lost to Stellan Bengtsson ), in 1975 he was fourth with the team. His greatest success was silver in doubles (with Milan Orlowski ) at the European Championship in 1976 . He also made it to the quarterfinals four times in doubles and twice in mixed at EMs.

He won the European Cup twice with the Sparta Prague club and the trade fair cup once . In total, he won ten titles at CSSR championships in singles, doubles and team championships.

In 1987 he ended his active international career.

Working in Germany

In 1978 Jaroslav Kunz left the ČSSR and came to Germany. Here he worked for 33 years until August 2011 as an association trainer for the table tennis association Schleswig-Holstein , then from October 1, 2012 as a fee trainer for the table tennis association Lower Saxony . In 1986 he acquired German citizenship.

In addition, he played in various German clubs, for example

In 2006 he took part in the Senior World Championship in Bremen. Here he was second in the age group 60+ in doubles (with the Swiss Herbert Neubauer ) and third in the singles. At the Senior World Cup in Rio de Janeiro in 2008, he won the singles title. With the Dane Jens-Erik Linde, he became senior world champion in doubles over 65 in Auckland, New Zealand in 2014.

Private

Jaroslav Kunz completed an apprenticeship at the railroad and later worked as an engineer for a construction company. He is married to Jitka, a former gymnast. He has a son named Ondrej (born July 24, 1973), who took part in the European Youth Championship in 1988, played at times with RC Protesia Hamburg in the 2nd Bundesliga, has played for TSV Süderbrarup since 1998, won the Schleswig-Holstein state championships several times and the TSB Flensburg women's team (2nd BL) trained.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
TCH  European Championship  1978  Duisburg  FRG   last 16  Quarter finals     
TCH  European Championship  1976  Prague  TCH   last 16  silver  Quarter finals   
TCH  European Championship  1974  Novi Sad  YUG   last 16  Quarter finals     
TCH  European Championship  1972  Rotterdam  NED   last 16       
TCH  European Championship  1968  Lyon  FRA     Quarter finals     
TCH  European Championship  1966  London  CLOSELY     Quarter finals  Quarter finals   
TCH  EURO TOP12  1978  Prague  TCH   10       
TCH  EURO TOP12  1977  Sarajevo  YUG   10       
TCH  EURO TOP12  1976  Lübeck  FRG   10       
TCH  EURO TOP12  1975  Vienna  AUT   8th       
TCH  World Championship  1977  Birmingham  CLOSELY   last 32  last 64  last 64  6th 
TCH  World Championship  1975  Calcutta  IND   last 64  last 16  last 64  4th 
TCH  World Championship  1973  Sarajevo  YUG   last 32  last 32  last 64  5 
TCH  World Championship  1971  Nagoya  JPN   Quarter finals  last 16  no participants  11 
TCH  World Championship  1967  Stockholm  SWE   last 32  last 32  last 16  5 
TCH  World Championship  1963  Prague  TCH   last 128  last 64  last 128   

literature

  • Andreas Wagner: www. - W as in world champion , table tennis magazine , 2008/7 regional north page 11

swell

  • Uwe Freise: Still a role model at 38 , DTS magazine , 1985/2 page 44
  • Player of the Month , DTS magazine , 1989/1 page 7
  • Dieter Gömann: Interview: Bringing the next generation forward , tischtennis magazine , 2013/2 regional north page 3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2011/10 regional north, page 8
  2. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2013/2 regional north, page 3
  3. ↑ Welcome to the KT, Jaroslav! (accessed on January 7, 2016)
  4. ↑ MS: Senior World Championships in Auckland: Marianne Blasberg World Champion in singles / 18 medals for Germany Article from May 17, 2014 on tischtennis.de (accessed April 12, 2019)
  5. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1963/24 edition west side 1 + 1977/1 edition south-west side 31
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1988/7 page 10
  7. ↑ ITTF database (accessed April 12, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Kunz, Jaroslav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-German table tennis player and trainer
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague , Czechoslovakia