László Pigniczki

László Pigniczki [ ˈlaːsloː ˈpignitski ] (born August 9, 1937 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian table tennis player and trainer. He won bronze in doubles at a European championship .

player

In 1955 Pigniczki joined the Spartacus Budapest Association. From 1957 to 1967 he was part of the Hungarian national team. In 1964 he was Hungarian champion in doubles (with János Faházi ), in 1965 he won the national title in singles. In the national Hungarian rankings he was ranked number one in 1966. He took part in world championships three times , namely in 1959 , 1961 and 1965 , in 1959 he was second with the Hungarian team. At the European Championships he was represented in 1960, 1964 and 1966, where he won bronze in a double in 1964 together with János Faházi.

Trainer

From 1961 the trained sports teacher worked alongside his active career as a trainer in the youth division of Spartacus Budapest. He later worked as national coach, from November 1975 to 1979 in Austria (as successor to Edvard Vecko ), from 1984 to the end of 1988 in Hungary. In 1989 he came to Germany, where from January to June 1994 he was state trainer for the TTV Lower Saxony . He later worked as the head coach at the Central Sports School in Budapest.

Private

Pigniczki's son, whose first name is also László, took part in the 1983 European Schools Championships in Malmö.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
HUN	European Championship	1966	London	CLOSELY		Quarter finals
HUN	European Championship	1964	Malmo	SWE		Semifinals
HUN	European Championship	1960	Zagreb	YUG	Quarter finals
HUN	World Championship	1965	Ljubljana	YUG	last 64	last 16	last 32	9
HUN	World Championship	1961	Beijing	CHN	last 128	last 32	no participants
HUN	World Championship	1959	Dortmund	FRG	last 128	last 16	last 128	2

swell

• Peter Hübner: Trainer in Germany: Laszlo Pigniczki - role model in many respects , DTS magazine , 1993/5 page 24

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tischtennis Magazin (TTV Niedersachsen), 2005, Issue 7–8, page 15
2. ↑ List of Hungarian masters in detail ( memento of the original from October 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 25, 2012) 
3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1966/5 page 36
4. ↑ Tischtennis Magazin (TTV Niedersachsen), 1995, issue 5, page 74
5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1983/9 page 14
6. ↑ László Pigniczki Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 14, 2011)