Mariann Domonkos

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Mariann Domonkos (born February 12, 1958 in Budapest ) is a Canadian table tennis player . She participated in eleven world championships and in 1988 in the Olympic Games .

Career

Born in Budapest, she moved with her parents to Doncaster in England when she was seven . In 1967 they settled in Chateauguay in Canada . In 1970 Mariann Domonkos began playing table tennis. At the age of 14, she took part in a world championship in 1973 . She studied and became student world champion in 1981.

In the 1981/82 season she played for the Bundesliga club ATSV Saarbrücken . This made her the first Canadian female table tennis player in Europe (no male table tennis player had previously played in a European club).

From 1973 to 1993 she represented Canada at all eleven world championships , but never came close to medal ranks. At the Commonwealth Championships she won doubles in 1985, 1979, 1982 and 1991 she reached the mixed final. In 1985 she became the North American individual champion.

In 1988 she qualified for participation in the Olympic Games in Seoul individually. Here she defeated Blanca Alejo (Dominican Republic) and Diana Gee (USA) in the group matches, but lost to Olena Kovtun (Ukraine), Jiao Zhimin (China) and Edit Urbán (Hungary). So she missed the main rounds.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
CAN Commonwealth Championship 1991 Nairobi KEN silver
CAN Commonwealth Championship 1985 Douglas IMN gold
CAN Commonwealth Championship 1982 Bombay IND Semifinals silver
CAN Commonwealth Championship 1979 Edinburgh SCO silver
CAN North American Championship 1985 Lake Placid United States gold
CAN Olympic games 1988 Seoul COR 1 round
CAN Pan American Games 1987 Indianapolis United States silver silver Semifinals
CAN Pan American Games 1983 Caracas VEN Quarter finals Semifinals silver
CAN Pan American Games 1979 San Juan PURE gold gold gold gold
CAN World Championship 1993 Gothenburg SWE 34
CAN World Championship 1991 Chiba City JPN last 128 32
CAN World Championship 1989 Dortmund FRG Agony 21st
CAN World Championship 1987 New Delhi IND last 128 last 64 last 128 21st
CAN World Championship 1985 Gothenburg SWE last 128 last 16 Agony 18th
CAN World Championship 1983 Tokyo JPN last 64 last 32 last 64 22nd
CAN World Championship 1981 Novi Sad YUG last 128 last 32 last 32 20th
CAN World Championship 1979 Pyongyang PRK last 32 last 64 last 64 22nd
CAN World Championship 1977 Birmingham CLOSELY Agony last 64 last 32 25th
CAN World Championship 1975 Calcutta IND Agony Agony Agony 21st
CAN World Championship 1973 Sarajevo YUG Agony Agony Agony 20th

Private

Since August 1982 Mariann Domonkos has been married to Adham Sharara , president of the table tennis world association ITTF from 1999 to 2014.

swell

  • Erich Philippi: Mariann knows what she wants , DTS magazine , 1982/1 page 15

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tischtennis magazine , 1981/12 page 15
  2. ↑ Change to Saarbrücken according to DTS 1981/12 page 15, return to Canada according to DTS 1982/14 page 6
  3. ↑ Table Tennis News, No. 130, November 1982, page 6 (accessed March 16, 2019)

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personal data
SURNAME Domonkos, Mariann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest