Jean-Michel Saive
Jean-Michel Saive 
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| Jean-Michel Saive (2013) | |
| Nation: |
 Belgium
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| Date of birth: | 17th November 1969 |
| Place of birth: | Liege |
| Resignation: | 2015 |
| Playing hand: | Right handed |
| How to play: | Shakehand |
| Best world ranking : | 1 (1994, 1996) |
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Jean-Michel Saive (born November 17, 1969 in Liège ) is a former Belgian table tennis player . He became European Champion in 1994 , Vice World Champion in 1993 and took part in seven Olympic Games.
successes
Saive has been the best Belgian table tennis player without interruption since 1985. In 1985, 1986 and 1987 he won singles, doubles and mixed competitions at the Belgian national championships. Overall, he was Belgian champion 25 times in singles, at least six times in doubles, at least seven times in mixed and at least 12 times in team competition. In 1984 he was the winner of the European Schools Championship.
He took part in seven Olympic Games from 1988 , when table tennis became an Olympic sport, until 2012 . At the opening ceremonies of the 1996 and 2004 Olympic Games , he was the flag bearer of the Belgian team. Since 1983 he has been represented at all world championships . In 1993 he became vice world champion in singles. In 1994 he led the ITTF world rankings .
Saive joined TTC Jülich in 1983 (2nd team, 2nd Bundesliga) and has since played for several Bundesliga clubs , from 1996 at TTF Bad Honnef and in between in Belgium at Royal Villette Charleroi (from 1997) and in France at club SSSS Tours. In 2012 he left Royal Villette Charleroi and joined the Logis Auderghem association in Brussels.
His international breakthrough came in 1993 when he won the China International Championships. He defeated Ma Wenge 3-2 in the final .
In February 1994 he won the European ranking tournament Europe TOP-12 and thus climbed to the top of the world rankings. A few months later he became individual European champion . In autumn Saive confirmed his supremacy in Europe by winning the European Masters Cup . At the end of the year he reached the final of the World Cup in Malaysia, where he was defeated (as in the 1993 World Cup) against the French Jean-Philippe Gatien .
After the early retirement at the 1995 World Cup in Tianjin, when he failed as top seed, he lost the top position in the world rankings. By winning the Qatar Open in early 1996, he managed to climb to first place in the world rankings again.
In 2001 he won the world championship with his Club Royal Villette Charleroi , was the European Champions League winner and also won the trophy of the Pro Tour single player world championship. He also reached the final at the World Cup in Osaka against China with the Belgian national team.
Saive won a total of 130 medals (51 gold, 38 silver and 41 bronze medals).
He was Belgian Sportsman of the Year in 1991 and 1994 and received the UNESCO Fair Play Award in 1988 .
At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 , Saive was honored next to the athletes Zoran Primorac (CRO) and Jörgen Persson (SWE) for the sixth participation in the Olympic table tennis competition. With this, Jean-Michel Saive had participated in all Olympic Games alongside Primorac and Persson since the table tennis competition was introduced in Seoul in 1988.
In December 2015 he announced the end of his international career, and in 2019 he retired completely from competitive sports.
Private
Saive's parents were very good table tennis players. His father Jean-Paul was 10th in the Belgian rankings in 1971, his mother Jeanine won the Belgian championship in 1969 in doubles B. Saive's younger brother Philippe Saive is also a Belgian TT international.
Results from the ITTF database
| Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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| BEL | European Championship | 2012 | Herning | THE | last 64 | |||
| BEL | European Championship | 2010 | Ostrava | CZE | Quarter finals | |||
| BEL | European Championship | 2008 | St. Petersburg | RUS | last 16 | |||
| BEL | European Championship | 2005 | Aarhus | THE | silver | |||
| BEL | European Championship | 2002 | Zagreb | HRV | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| BEL | European Championship | 2000 | Bremen | GER | last 16 | |||
| BEL | European Championship | 1998 | Eindhoven | NED | Quarter finals | |||
| BEL | European Championship | 1996 | Bratislava | SVK | Quarter finals | |||
| BEL | European Championship | 1994 | Birmingham | CLOSELY | gold | silver | ||
| BEL | European Championship | 1992 | Stuttgart | GER | silver | Quarter finals | ||
| BEL | European Championship | 1990 | Gothenburg | SWE | silver | |||
| BEL | European Championship | 1988 | Paris | FRA | last 16 | |||
| BEL | European Youth Championship (Cadets) | 1984 | Linz | AUT | gold | |||
| BEL | European Youth Championship (Juniors) | 1987 | Athens | GRE | silver | |||
| BEL | European Youth Championship (Juniors) | 1986 | Louvin La Neuve | BEL | silver | |||
| BEL | EURO TOP12 | 2011 | Liege | BEL | 5th place | |||
| BEL | EURO TOP12 | 2009 | Dusseldorf | GER | 9th place | |||
| BEL | EURO TOP12 | 2008 | Frankfurt | GER | 3rd place | |||
| BEL | EURO TOP12 | 2007 | Arezzo | ITA | 9th place | |||
| BEL | EURO TOP12 | 2006 | Copenhagen | THE | 9th place | |||
| BEL | EURO TOP12 | 2005 | Rennes | FRA | 9th place | |||
| BEL | EURO TOP12 | 2004 | Frankfurt | GER | 9th place | |||
| BEL | EURO TOP12 | 2003 | Saarbrücken | GER | 5th place | |||
| BEL | EURO TOP12 | 2002 | Rotterdam | NED | 5 | |||
| BEL | EURO TOP12 | 2001 | catfish | AUT | 2 | |||
| BEL | EURO TOP12 | 2000 | Alassio | ITA | 5 | |||
| BEL | EURO TOP12 | 1999 | Split | HRV | 7th | |||
| BEL | EURO TOP12 | 1998 | Halmstad | SWE | 3 | |||
| BEL | EURO TOP12 | 1997 | Eindhoven | NED | 7th | |||
| BEL | EURO TOP12 | 1996 | Charleroi | BEL | 2 | |||
| BEL | EURO TOP12 | 1995 | Dijon | FRA | 3 | |||
| BEL | EURO TOP12 | 1994 | Arezzo | ITA | 1 | |||
| BEL | EURO TOP12 | 1993 | Copenhagen | THE | 3 | |||
| BEL | EURO TOP12 | 1992 | Vienna | AUT | 5 | |||
| BEL | EURO TOP12 | 1991 | Hertogenbosch | NED | 5 | |||
| BEL | EURO TOP12 | 1990 | Hanover | FRG | 11 | |||
| BEL | Olympic games | 2012 | London | CLOSELY | last 64 | |||
| BEL | Olympic games | 2008 | Beijing | CHN | last 64 | |||
| BEL | Olympic games | 2004 | Athens | GRE | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Olympic games | 2000 | Sydney | OUT | last 16 | immediately excluded | ||
| BEL | Olympic games | 1996 | Atlanta | United States | Quarter finals | no participants | ||
| BEL | Olympic games | 1992 | Barcelona | ESP | last 16 | immediately excluded | ||
| BEL | Olympic games | 1988 | Seoul | COR | immediately excluded | no participants | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2013 | Stockholm | SWE | last 64 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2013 | Rabat | MAR | last 16 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2013 | Kuwait City | KUW | last 64 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2013 | Almeria | ESP | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2012 | Rabat | MAR | Quarter finals | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2012 | Santos | BRA | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2012 | Almeria | ESP | last 16 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2012 | Kuwait City | KUW | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2012 | Doha | QAT | last 64 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2012 | Budapest | HUN | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2011 | Schwechat | AUT | last 64 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2011 | Rabat | MAR | silver | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2011 | Rio de Janeiro | BRA | Quarter finals | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2011 | Dortmund | GER | Quarter finals | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2011 | Dubai | UAE | last 64 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2011 | Velenje | SLO | last 64 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2010 | Warsaw | POLE | last 64 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2010 | catfish | AUT | last 16 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2010 | Rabat | MAR | silver | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2010 | Cairo | EGY | last 16 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2010 | New Delhi | IND | Quarter finals | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2010 | Berlin | GER | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2010 | Kuwait City | KUW | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2010 | Doha | QAT | last 64 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2010 | Velenje | SVN | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2009 | Rabat | MAR | Quarter finals | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2009 | Doha | QAT | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2009 | Kuwait City | KUW | last 64 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2009 | Frederikshavn | THE | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2009 | Velenje | SVN | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2008 | Berlin | GER | last 64 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2008 | Salzburg | AUT | last 16 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2008 | Santiago | CHI | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2008 | Kuwait City | KUW | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2008 | Velenje | SVN | Quarter finals | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2007 | Stockholm | SWE | last 16 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2007 | Bremen | GER | last 16 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2007 | Toulouse | FRA | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2007 | catfish | AUT | Quarter finals | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2007 | St. Petersburg | RUS | last 64 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2007 | Shenzhen | CHN | last 16 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2007 | Taipei | TPE | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2007 | Nanjing | CHN | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2007 | Chiba | JPN | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2007 | Santiago | CHI | last 16 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2007 | Doha | QAT | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2007 | Velenje | SVN | last 64 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2007 | Zagreb | HRV | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2006 | St. Petersburg | RUS | last 64 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2006 | Santiago | CHI | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2006 | Kuwait City | KUW | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2006 | Doha | QAT | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2006 | Zagreb | HRV | last 64 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2005 | Gothenburg | SWE | silver | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2005 | Magdeburg | GER | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2005 | St. Petersburg | RUS | Quarter finals | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2005 | Fort Lauderdale | United States | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2005 | Santiago | CHI | Semifinals | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2005 | Rio de Janeiro | BRA | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2005 | Doha | QAT | last 16 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2005 | Zagreb | HRV | last 16 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2004 | St. Petersburg | RUS | Quarter finals | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2004 | catfish | AUT | silver | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2004 | Leipzig | GER | Quarter finals | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2004 | Warsaw | POLE | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2004 | Kobe | JPN | last 16 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2004 | Chicago | United States | last 16 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2004 | Rio de Janeiro | BRA | Quarter finals | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2004 | Pyeongchang | COR | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2004 | Cairo | EGY | Semifinals | Quarter finals | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2004 | Athens | GRE | last 16 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2003 | Bremen | GER | last 64 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2003 | Johor Bahru | MAS | Semifinals | Quarter finals | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2003 | Jeju-Si | COR | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2003 | Doha | QAT | last 16 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2003 | Croatia | HRV | last 16 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2002 | Magdeburg | GER | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2002 | Kobe | JPN | Quarter finals | Scratched | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2002 | Doha | QAT | gold | last 16 | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2002 | Cairo | EGY | silver | Quarter finals | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2002 | catfish | AUT | Quarter finals | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2001 | Farum | THE | last 16 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2001 | Skovde | SWE | last 32 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2001 | Rotterdam | NED | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2001 | Yokohama | JPN | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2001 | Fort Lauderdale | United States | Semifinals | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2001 | São Paulo | BRA | silver | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2001 | Zagreb | HRV | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2001 | Doha | QAT | Semifinals | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2001 | Chatham | CLOSELY | Quarter finals | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2000 | Farum | THE | Quarter finals | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2000 | Warsaw | POLE | Quarter finals | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2000 | Toulouse | FRA | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2000 | Rio de Janeiro | BRA | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2000 | Fort Lauderdale | United States | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2000 | Kobe City | JPN | last 32 | Rd 1 | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 2000 | Zagreb | HRV | Semifinals | last 16 | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 1999 | Prague | CZE | silver | Scratched | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 1999 | Lievin | FRA | last 16 | silver | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 1999 | Kobe City | JPN | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 1999 | Rio de Janeiro | BRA | Quarter finals | gold | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 1999 | Hopton-on-Sea | CLOSELY | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 1999 | Doha | QAT | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 1998 | Sundsvall | SWE | last 32 | Rd 1 | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 1998 | Belgrade | YUG | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 1998 | Courmayeur | ITA | Quarter finals | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 1998 | Beirut | LIB | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 1998 | Melbourne | OUT | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 1998 | Houston | United States | gold | gold | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 1998 | Kota Kinabalu | MAS | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 1998 | Zagreb | HRV | silver | silver | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 1998 | Doha | QAT | last 16 | Rd 1 | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 1997 | Linz | AUT | last 32 | last 32 | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 1997 | Chiba | JPN | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 1997 | Ipoh | MAS | silver | Quarter finals | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 1997 | Rio de Janeiro | BRA | Semifinals | Quarter finals | ||
| BEL | Pro tour | 1997 | Doha | QAT | last 16 | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 1997 | Kettering | CLOSELY | gold | |||
| BEL | Pro tour | 1996 | Kettering | CLOSELY | Semifinals | Semifinals | ||
| BEL | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2005 | Fuzhou | CHN | silver | |||
| BEL | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2004 | Beijing | CHN | last 16 | |||
| BEL | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2002 | Stockholm | SWE | Quarter finals | |||
| BEL | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2001 | Hainan | CHN | Semifinals | |||
| BEL | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2000 | Kobe City | JPN | last 16 | |||
| BEL | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 1998 | Paris | FRA | Quarter finals | |||
| BEL | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 1997 | Hong Kong | HKG | Semifinals | |||
| BEL | World Championship | 2013 | Paris | FRA | last 64 | |||
| BEL | World Championship | 2012 | Dortmund | GER | 34 | |||
| BEL | World Championship | 2011 | Rotterdam | NED | last 64 | |||
| BEL | World Championship | 2010 | Moscow | RUS | 28 | |||
| BEL | World Championship | 2009 | Yokohama | JPN | last 64 | |||
| BEL | World Championship | 2008 | Guangzhou | CHN | 24 | |||
| BEL | World Championship | 2007 | Zagreb | HRV | last 32 | no participants | no participants | |
| BEL | World Championship | 2006 | Bremen | GER | 12 | |||
| BEL | World Championship | 2005 | Shanghai | CHN | last 64 | last 32 | ||
| BEL | World Championship | 2004 | Doha | QAT | 10 | |||
| BEL | World Championship | 2003 | Paris | FRA | last 32 | last 32 | ||
| BEL | World Championship | 2001 | Osaka | JPN | last 32 | no participants | no participants | 2 |
| BEL | World Championship | 2000 | Kuala Lumpur | MAS | 9-12 | |||
| BEL | World Championship | 1999 | Eindhoven | NED | last 16 | last 32 | no participants | |
| BEL | World Championship | 1997 | Manchester | CLOSELY | last 32 | last 64 | no participants | 8th |
| BEL | World Championship | 1995 | Tianjin | CHN | last 32 | Quarter finals | no participants | 8th |
| BEL | World Championship | 1993 | Gothenburg | SWE | silver | last 64 | no participants | 6th |
| BEL | World Championship | 1991 | Chiba City | JPN | last 16 | last 64 | last 32 | 4th |
| BEL | World Championship | 1989 | Dortmund | FRG | last 128 | last 64 | last 128 | 11 |
| BEL | World Championship | 1987 | New Delhi | IND | last 128 | last 64 | last 64 | 20th |
| BEL | World Championship | 1985 | Gothenburg | SWE | last 128 | last 64 | Agony | 24 |
| BEL | World Championship | 1983 | Tokyo | JPN | Agony | Agony | Agony | 34 |
| BEL | World cup | 2013 | Verviers | BEL | 17th to 20th space | |||
| BEL | World cup | 2008 | Liege | BEL | 13-16 space | |||
| BEL | World cup | 2006 | Paris | FRA | 9-12 space | |||
| BEL | World cup | 2005 | Liege | BEL | 5th-8th space | |||
| BEL | World cup | 2003 | Jiangyin | CHN | 4th Place | |||
| BEL | World cup | 2002 | Jinan | CHN | 9-12 space | |||
| BEL | World cup | 2001 | Courmayeur | ITA | 9-12 space | |||
| BEL | World cup | 2000 | Yangzhou | CHN | 4th | |||
| BEL | World cup | 1999 | Xiaolan | 0 | 5th-8th space | |||
| BEL | World cup | 1998 | Shantou | CHN | 9-12 space | |||
| BEL | World cup | 1997 | Nîmes | FRA | 13-16 space | |||
| BEL | World cup | 1996 | Nîmes | FRA | 4th | |||
| BEL | World cup | 1995 | Nîmes | FRA | 5th-8th space | |||
| BEL | World cup | 1994 | Taipei | CHN | silver | |||
| BEL | World cup | 1993 | Guangzhou | SWE | 5th-8th space | |||
| BEL | World cup | 1991 | Kuala Lumpur | MAS | 4th | |||
| BEL | World cup | 1990 | Chiba City | JPN | 5th-8th space | |||
| BEL | World cup | 1989 | Nairobi | KEN | 4th | |||
| BEL | World Doubles Cup | 1990 | Seoul | COR | 9 | |||
| BEL | WTC World Team Cup | 1991 | Barcelona | ESP | 5 |
philately
On June 29, 1996, the Belgian Post issued a stamp for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta with a face value of 16 Francs + 4 Francs surcharge. This stamp depicts Jean-Michel Saive ( Michel catalog no. 2698). This stamp exists in perforated and cut copies as well as a ministerial block. For this purpose a special stamp was used in Brussels on June 29, 1996, on which a table tennis bat, a table tennis ball and a table tennis net are depicted.
Web links
- Jean-Michel Saive biography on the website of the World Table Tennis Federation ittf.com (accessed August 5, 2011)
- Jean-Michel Saive in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ) (accessed June 21, 2014)
literature
- Rahul Nelson: He is a winner with a big fighter heart: Jean-Michel Saive , DTS magazine , 1990/3 pages 40–42
- Christian Raspiller: Offspring of a table tennis family: the Saives , DTS magazine , 1993/5 page 30
- Philippe Antoine / translated by Heide Goetze: Like a Predator - Jean-Michel Saive , DTS magazine , 1995/5 pages 4–8
Individual evidence
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1987/4 page 24
- ↑ DTS magazine , 2014/3 page 5
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/9 page 20
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/6 page 29
- ↑ Saive and Waldner: Two old masters on new paths (accessed on June 12, 2012)
- ↑ Jean-Michel Saive is retired from table tennis BRF , December 3, 2015, accessed on December 29, 2015
- ↑ Adieu, Jean-Mi! Saive celebrates emotional end of career (accessed on May 14, 2019)
- ↑ ITTF database (accessed May 14, 2019)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Saive, Jean-Michel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th November 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liege |