Lionel Weber
Lionel Weber 
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| Date of birth: | April 29, 1996 |
| Playing hand: | right |
| How to play: | Shakehand , attack |
| Best world ranking : | 115 (Nov 2018) |
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Lionel Weber (born April 29, 1996 ) is a Swiss table tennis player .
Life
Lionel Weber was born in 1996 and lives in Reinach . Since 2004 he plays racing by table tennis and now plays in Muttenz TTC Rio-Star in the National League A. At 16 he was in 2012 in the elite Swiss champion in the doubles, together with Philip Merz , and stood in the individual against the same age Elia Schmid in the final . In 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020 he became Swiss individual champion. From 2012 to 2019 he took part in all eight world championships , from 2013 to 2018 in all six European championships . At the EM 2018 in Alicante , he qualified for the main field and then retired in the first round against Timo Boll . The second set he surprisingly won 11: 6, and in the third he had a set ball. Weber finally lost to the later European champions with 1: 4. With world number 152 (as of March 2020), he is currently the best Swiss table tennis player.
Results from the ITTF database
| Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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| SUI | Europe Top 16 | 2020 | Montreux | SUI | last 16 | |||
| SUI | Europe Top 16 | 2019 | Montreux | SUI | last 16 | |||
| SUI | World Championship | 2019 | Budapest | HUN | Agony | Agony | last 64 | |
| SUI | European Championship | 2018 | Alicante | ESP | last 64 | last 32 | last 32 | |
| SUI | Europe Top 16 | 2018 | Montreux | SUI | last 16 | |||
| SUI | World Championship | 2018 | Halmstad | SWE | 53-56 | |||
| SUI | European Championship | 2017 | Luxembourg | LUX | 28 | |||
| SUI | World Championship | 2017 | Dusseldorf | GER | Agony | Agony | Agony | |
| SUI | European Championship | 2016 | Budapest | HUN | Agony | Agony | Agony | |
| SUI | World Championship | 2016 | Kuala Lumpur | MAS | 41-44 | |||
| SUI | European Championship | 2015 | Ekaterinburg | RUS | Agony | Agony | 27 | |
| SUI | World Championship | 2015 | Suzhou | CHN | Agony | Agony | last 128 | |
| SUI | European Championship | 2014 | Lisbon | POR | 22nd | |||
| SUI | World Championship | 2014 | Tokyo | JPN | 53-56 | |||
| SUI | European Championship | 2013 | Schwechat | AUT | Agony | 25th | ||
| SUI | World Championship | 2013 | Paris | FRA | Agony | Agony | Agony | |
| SUI | World Championship | 2012 | Dortmund | GER | 52 |
successes
- 2020 Swiss Champion Individual
- 2019 Swiss Champion Individual
- 2018 Swiss champion doubles with Filip Karin
- 2017 Swiss champion singles
- 2016 Swiss Champion Individual
- 2015 Swiss champions singles, Swiss champions doubles with Nicola Mohler
- 2014 Swiss champion doubles with Nicola Mohler
- 2012 Swiss double champion with Philip Merz , Swiss runner-up in singles
Individual evidence
Web links
- Portrait on sporthilfe.ch (accessed on January 3, 2017)
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| SURNAME | Weber, Lionel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1996 |