Leszek Kucharski

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Leszek Kucharski (born July 8, 1959 in Danzig ) is a Polish table tennis player and trainer. He is European youth champion as well as vice world champion in doubles and vice European champion in men’s singles.

youth

Leszek Kucharski is the son of Magdalena Skuratowicz-Kucharski, who won the Polish table tennis championship six times and was Senior World Champion 50+ in 1984 . She led him to table tennis and to the AZS-AWF Gdańsk association, of which she was one of the founders. Andrzej Grubba also played in the same club . Leszek made rapid progress. In 1969 he was the Polish student champion, in 1971, 1974 and 1977 he won the Polish youth championships in singles. At the European Youth Championships in 1974 he reached the quarter-finals in singles, in 1976 3rd place in mixed (with Jolanta Szatko). In 1977 he won the European Youth Championship in Vichy.

Adult career

He often had to interrupt his career because of back problems. So he could not play tournaments in the 1978/79 season.

Polish championships

At the national Polish championships in 1980 and 1987 he won singles, 1978 doubles with Stefan Dryszel , 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984 and 1988 Andrzej Grubba , 1978 and 1979 mixed with Jolanta Szatko and 1989 with D. Bilska. A total of 11 times he was team champion with the teams from AZS-AWF Gdańsk (7 times), Euromirex (3 times) and Baildon Katowice (once).

European championships

From 1982 to 1992 Kucharski was represented at all six European championships . He achieved his best placings in 1984 when he won silver with the Polish team, and in 1986 when he was defeated in the individual final against Jörgen Persson and thus became vice European champion.

World championships

Between 1977 and 1993, Kucharski was nominated eight times for world championships . Only in 1979 he was absent for health reasons. In doubles he won the vice world championship with Zoran Kalinić in Dortmund in 1989 - they lost the final against the German Jörg Roßkopf / Steffen Fetzner . Kucharski achieved further good placements in doubles with Andrzej Grubba in 1987 with third place and in 1981 and 1991 (semi-finals). In 1985 he was third with the team.

Further international appearances

Kucharski qualified eight times between 1982 and 1992 for the European ranking tournament Europe TOP-12 , best of all in 1988 with 4th place. In 1988 and 1992 he took part in the Olympic Games . He won several international championships.

Trainer

From 1991 Kucharski worked in Poland as a trainer. At times he also worked for the Indian Table Tennis Association (until 2013).

societies

Mostly Kucharski played in Polish clubs, only from 1987 to 1990 he stayed in Sweden (Halmstad and Helsinborg) and in 1991 at TSV Heilbronn-Sontheim ( 1st Bundesliga ).

Private

Kucharski has a sister Gosia and an older brother Zbyszek (Polish youth champion). His first marriage was to his wife Izabell, with whom he has a daughter, Aleksandra (* 1981). In 1989 he married the Polish national volleyball player Dorota Rucka.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
POLE  European Championship  1992  Stuttgart  GER     Quarter finals     
POLE  European Championship  1990  Gothenburg  SWE     Quarter finals     
POLE  European Championship  1988  Paris  FRA     Semifinals     
POLE  European Championship  1986  Prague  TCH   silver  Quarter finals     
POLE  European Championship  1984  Moscow  URS     Quarter finals    2
POLE  European Championship  1982  Budapest  HUN   last 16  Quarter finals     
POLE  European Youth Championship (Juniors)  1977  Vichy  FRA   gold       
POLE  EURO TOP12  1991  Hertogenbosch  NED   11       
POLE  EURO TOP12  1990  Hanover  FRG   7th       
POLE  EURO TOP12  1989  Charleroi  BEL   6th       
POLE  EURO TOP12  1988  Ljubljana  YUG   4th       
POLE  EURO TOP12  1987  Basel  SUI   5       
POLE  EURO TOP12  1986  Sodertalje  SWE   5       
POLE  EURO TOP12  1985  Barcelona  ESP   11       
POLE  EURO TOP12  1982  Nantes  FRA   10       
POLE  Olympic games  1992  Barcelona  ESP   no participants  immediately excluded     
POLE  Olympic games  1988  Seoul  COR   last 16  6th     
POLE  Pro tour  1997  Gdańsk  POLE     last 16     
POLE  World Championship  1993  Gothenburg  SWE   last 64  last 64  last 128  11 
POLE  World Championship  1991  Chiba City  JPN   last 64  Quarter finals  no participants  16 
POLE  World Championship  1989  Dortmund  FRG   last 64  silver  no participants  8th 
POLE  World Championship  1987  New Delhi  IND   last 16  Semifinals  no participants  5 
POLE  World Championship  1985  Gothenburg  SWE   last 64  last 64  Agony  3
POLE  World Championship  1983  Tokyo  JPN   last 32  last 16  no participants  12 
POLE  World Championship  1981  Novi Sad  YUG   last 32  Quarter finals  last 64  8th 
POLE  World Championship  1977  Birmingham  CLOSELY   last 128  last 32  last 32  12 
POLE  World cup  1989  Nairobi  KEN   7th       
POLE  World cup  1988  Canton & Wuhan  United States   9       
POLE  World cup  1987  Macau  CHN   4th       
POLE  World cup  1985  Foshan  CHN   14th       
POLE  World Doubles Cup  1992  Las Vegas  United States     Quarter finals     
POLE  World Doubles Cup  1990  Seoul  COR     Semifinals     

swell

  • Kucharski's website (Polish) (accessed September 22, 2012)
  • Marek Formela / Manfred Schäfer: Foreign countries beckon him: Leszek Kucharski , DTS magazine , 1986/9 pp. 45–47
  • Sylwester Sikora: Seven Years of Hope , DTS magazine , 1984/6 pp. 14-15

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2013/12 page 6
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1989/10 p. 19
  3. ↑ Leszek Kucharski results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 11, 2011)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Kucharski, Leszek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish table tennis player and trainer
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Gdańsk