Jean Bélot

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Jean Bélot (* around 1913; † August 17, 1959 ) was a French table tennis official . He was the first President of the European Table Tennis Association ETTU .

Bélot was Secretary General of the French Table Tennis Federation FFTT until 1959. He was ready to take on international tasks. He was at the Congress of the ITTF elected in 1953 in the ITTF Board of Directors. He also worked on various ITTF committees.

When the European Table Tennis Association ETTU was founded in 1957 , he was elected President. He held this office until the end of his life in 1959. His successor was Josef Vandurel .

Bélot died in August 1959 while on vacation on the Riviera. In 1960 the ETTU Congress appointed him an honorary member of the ETTU. Since then, the trophy received by the host country of the European Championships has been renamed the Jean Bélot Cup .

Sources and individual references

  1. ↑ died at the age of 46 - DTS magazine , 1959/17 p. 14
  2. ↑ Table tennis magazine, official organ of the Lower Saxony table tennis association 2005/9 p. 8
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1960/9 West issue p. 6
  • Jean Bélot † , DTS magazine , 1959/17 p. 14
personal data
SURNAME Bélot, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French table tennis official
DATE OF BIRTH around 1913
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1959