Jaroslav Staněk

Jaroslav Staněk (born February 24, 1940 in Podwihof , Opava district ) is a Czechoslovak table tennis player who was one of the best in Europe in the 1960s and was European champion in doubles in 1964.

Career

In the mid-1960s Staněk belonged to the Slavia Prague club , with whose men's team he was Czech champion in 1965/66 and then won the ETTU Cup .

Staněk achieved numerous international successes with his compatriot Vladimír Miko as a double partner. From 1959 to 1971 he took part in seven world championships . He came in 1967 in doubles to the semi-finals. Four times he was fifth with the team. He was nominated four times for the European Championships . Here he was most successful in 1964 , when he was third in the individual competition after his semi-final defeat against the Hungarian Zoltán Berczik and in doubles with Miko through the final victory against the Swedes Hans Alsér / Kjell Johansson was European champion. At the next EM in 1966 , the same opponents faced each other in the final. This time Staněk / Miko lost and came second.

At the International German Championships the doubles won in 1966 and 1968, in the singles Staněk was first in 1966. In 1964 he finished second in the mixed with Marta Lužová . In men's singles, he also won the International Championships in Wales (1966), England (1967), Czechoslovakia (1969) and Canada (1969). With his club Slavia Prague, he won the European club cup in 1969. In the ITTF world rankings he was ranked tenth in mid-1969.

End of active career

After 1971 Staněk ceased to appear internationally. He later worked as a journalist and won the journalism tournament at the 1977 World Cup . In the 1990s he was national coach in Austria.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
TCH	European Championship	1968	Lyon	FRA	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
TCH	European Championship	1966	London	CLOSELY	Quarter finals	silver
TCH	European Championship	1964	Malmo	SWE	Semifinals	gold
TCH	European Championship	1960	Zagreb	YUG	last 16	Quarter finals
TCH	World Championship	1971	Nagoya	JPN	last 64	no participants	no participants	11
TCH	World Championship	1969	Munich	FRG	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	7th
TCH	World Championship	1967	Stockholm	SWE	last 64	Semifinals	last 64	5
TCH	World Championship	1965	Ljubljana	YUG	last 32	last 16	last 32	5
TCH	World Championship	1963	Prague	TCH	last 64	Quarter finals	last 32	5
TCH	World Championship	1961	Beijing	CHN	last 32	last 32	last 32	10
TCH	World Championship	1959	Dortmund	FRG	last 128	last 16	no participants	5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brief portrait ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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. (Czech) (accessed October 21, 2011)  
2. ↑ Table tennis show (Austrian newspaper) 1966/5, page 18
3. ↑ Manfred Schäfer: A game for life. 75 years of DTTB. (1925-2000) . Published by the German Table Tennis Association DTTB , Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , pages 134-137
4. ^ Table tennis show (Österreichische Zeitung) 1966/3 page 30
5. ↑ World rankings 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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 21, 2011)  
6. ↑ NOETTLV Nachrichten 1993/3 page 10 (accessed on February 14, 2016; PDF; 4.3 MB)
7. ↑ Jaroslav Staněk Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on October 21, 2011)