Martin Monrad
Martin Monrad (born December 19, 1977 ) is a former Danish table tennis player . He was European team champion in 2005 .
International career
Monrad achieved first successes at the European Youth Championships. Here he reached the final in Topolcany in 1992 in the cadet competition in singles and doubles with Morten Knudsen. In 1994 he won the junior class in Paris with the Danish team. A year later, he won the doubles title with Russian Alexei Smirnow in The Hague .
From 1995 to 2006 Monrad took part in nine world championships . He did not succeed in winning a medal. Since 1996 he has been nominated several times for European championships . In 1998 he reached the double quarter-finals. In 2005 he was European team champion with the Danish team, and in 2009 it reached the final.
In the ITTF world rankings he is currently (March 2011) in 175th place. In mid-2005 he was ranked 75th.
Activities in Germany
In 1995 Monrad left the Danish club Horning BTK and joined the German club TTC Grünweiß Bad Hamm , which was playing in the 2nd Bundesliga at the time . In 1997 he moved to Borussia Düsseldorf , with whose men's team he became German champion in 1997/98 and was in the final of the European Cup in the following year . Four years later he went to Sweden to Malmö FF.
National championships
At the Danish national championships, Monrad won several titles:
- Single - six tracks: 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007
- Double - eight titles: 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007 each with Allan Bentsen
- Teams: 1994, 1995 with Horning BTK
Monrad won the TOP12 ranking tournament three times in a row from 1996 to 1998. In April 2011 he finished fourth in the Danish national rankings.
Results from the ITTF database
| Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE | European Championship | 2009 | Stuttgart | GER | 2 | |||
| THE | European Championship | 2005 | Aarhus | THE | 1 | |||
| THE | European Championship | 1998 | Eindhoven | NED | Quarter finals | |||
| THE | European Championship | 1996 | Bratislava | SVK | last 16 | |||
| THE | European Youth Championship (Cadets) | 1992 | Topolcany | TCH | silver | silver | ||
| THE | European Youth Championship (Juniors) | 1995 | The hague | NED | gold | |||
| THE | European Youth Championship (Juniors) | 1994 | Paris | FRA | 1 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2009 | Warsaw | POLE | last 32 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2009 | Minsk | BLR | last 16 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2009 | Bremen | GER | last 64 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2009 | Frederikshavn | THE | last 64 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2008 | Berlin | GER | 5 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2006 | Warsaw | POLE | last 64 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2006 | St. Petersburg | RUS | last 32 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2006 | Belgrade | SRB | last 64 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2006 | Kunshan | CHN | last 32 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2006 | Zagreb | HRV | last 64 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2005 | Yokohama | JPN | last 32 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2005 | Shenzhen | CHN | last 64 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2005 | Fort Lauderdale | United States | Semifinals | last 16 | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 2005 | Zagreb | HRV | last 64 | Quarter finals | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 2004 | catfish | AUT | last 64 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2004 | Leipzig | GER | last 64 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2004 | Aarhus | THE | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 2004 | Warsaw | POLE | last 64 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2004 | Kobe | JPN | last 64 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2004 | Chicago | United States | last 64 | Quarter finals | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 2004 | Athens | GRE | last 64 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2004 | Croatia | HRV | last 64 | Quarter finals | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 2003 | Bremen | GER | last 64 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2003 | Kobe | JPN | last 64 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2003 | Guangzhou | CHN | last 64 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2003 | Rio | BRA | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 2003 | Croatia | HRV | last 64 | Semifinals | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 2002 | Farum | THE | last 64 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2002 | Eindhoven | NED | last 32 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2002 | Kobe | JPN | last 16 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2002 | Gangneung City | COR | last 64 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2002 | São Paulo | BRA | last 32 | Semifinals | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 2002 | Fort Lauderdale | United States | last 64 | last 16 | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 2002 | Courmayeur | ITA | last 32 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2002 | catfish | AUT | last 64 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2001 | Farum | THE | last 16 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2001 | Rotterdam | NED | last 64 | last 16 | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 2001 | Bayreuth | GER | last 16 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2001 | Yokohama | JPN | Rd 1 | Rd 1 | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 2001 | Seoul | COR | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 2001 | Zagreb | HRV | last 64 | Rd 1 | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 2001 | Doha | QAT | last 64 | Quarter finals | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 2001 | Chatham | CLOSELY | last 32 | Rd 1 | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 2000 | Farum | THE | Rd 1 | last 16 | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 2000 | Umeå | SWE | Quarter finals | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 2000 | Warsaw | POLE | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 2000 | Toulouse | FRA | last 32 | Rd 1 | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 2000 | Zagreb | HRV | Rd 1 | Rd 1 | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 1999 | Hopton-on-Sea | CLOSELY | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 1999 | Doha | QAT | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 1998 | Sundsvall | SWE | Rd 1 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 1998 | Belgrade | YUG | Rd 1 | Quarter finals | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 1998 | Courmayeur | ITA | Rd 1 | last 16 | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 1998 | Melbourne | OUT | Rd 1 | Rd 1 | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 1998 | Doha | QAT | Rd 1 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 1997 | Lyon | FRA | Rd 1 | last 16 | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 1997 | Squid | SWE | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 1997 | Gdańsk | POLE | Semifinals | Quarter finals | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 1997 | Zhuhai | CHN | Rd 1 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 1997 | Chiba | JPN | Rd 1 | |||
| THE | Pro tour | 1997 | Doha | QAT | Rd 1 | last 16 | ||
| THE | Pro tour | 1997 | Kettering | CLOSELY | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| THE | World Championship | 2006 | Bremen | GER | 24 | |||
| THE | World Championship | 2005 | Shanghai | CHN | last 64 | last 32 | ||
| THE | World Championship | 2004 | Doha | QAT | 15th | |||
| THE | World Championship | 2003 | Paris | FRA | last 128 | last 32 | ||
| THE | World Championship | 2001 | Osaka | JPN | last 128 | last 32 | no participants | 33 |
| THE | World Championship | 2000 | Kuala Lumpur | MAS | 13-16 | |||
| THE | World Championship | 1999 | Eindhoven | NED | last 64 | last 32 | no participants | |
| THE | World Championship | 1997 | Manchester | CLOSELY | Rd 3 | last 64 | last 128 | 21st |
| THE | World Championship | 1995 | Tianjin | CHN | last 128 | last 32 | Agony | 22nd |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b DTS magazine , 1995/8 page 33
- ↑ Youth EM single , Youth EM double (accessed on February 3, 2016)
- ↑ On the website of the European Table Tennis Association , M.Pedersen is incorrectly stated. (accessed on June 28, 2011)
- ↑ World ranking (accessed on June 28, 2011)
- ↑ Liebherr US Open 2005, p. 16 (accessed June 28, 2011)
- ^ DTS magazine , 1997/5, page 18
- ↑ DTS magazine , 2001/8, page 18
- ↑ Danish Championships Singles (accessed February 3, 2016)
- ↑ Danish championships doubles (accessed February 3, 2016)
- ↑ Danish championship teams (accessed on February 3, 2016)
- ↑ TOP12 ( Memento from September 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on June 28, 2011)
- ↑ Danish ranking (accessed June 28, 2011)
- ↑ Martin Monrad Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 12, 2011)
Web links
- Portrait ( Memento from August 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed February 3, 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Monrad, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th December 1977 |