Matei Gantner

Matei Gantner (* 1934 ) is a Romanian table tennis player and trainer. In the 1950s he took part in five world championships and one European championship .

Career

Matei Gantner won a total of seven titles at the national Romanian championships, three in singles (1954, 1958, 1960), two in doubles (1955, 1957 each with Toma Reiter ) and two in mixed (1957, 1958 each with Ella Zeller ).

From 1953 to 1957 Matei Gantner was nominated five times for world championships . His greatest achievement was winning the bronze medal in the 1956 team competition in Tokyo. Here he defeated the Japanese Yoshio Tomita and Ichirō Ogimura in the semifinals , it was Ogimura's only defeat at this World Cup. At the World Championships in 1955 and 1957 , the Romanian team was fifth.

At the European Championship in 1958 he won bronze in doubles with Tiberiu Harastozi . In the ITTF world rankings he was ranked sixth in 1956.

In 1958 Matei Gantner fell out of favor in Romania, after which he was no longer considered in the national team.

He then began to train as a junior. In 1979 he emigrated to Germany with his family. He was employed as a coach at Borussia Düsseldorf from 1980 to 1986. During this time, the men's team won the German championship three times.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
ROU	European Championship	1958	Budapest	HUN	last 16	Semifinals	Quarter finals
ROU	World Championship	1957	Stockholm	SWE	last 128	last 16	last 16	5
ROU	World Championship	1956	Tokyo	JPN	last 16	Quarter finals	last 16	3
ROU	World Championship	1955	Utrecht	NED	last 16	last 16	last 64	5
ROU	World Championship	1954	Wembley	CLOSELY	last 256	last 64	last 32	9
ROU	World Championship	1953	Bucharest	ROU	last 128	last 64	last 32

Web links

• SCI-News No. 97, September 2014, pages 26-27 (accessed on May 6, 2015)
• Page 21, portrait (Romanian) (accessed May 6, 2015)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Romanian Championships in Individuals ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 6, 2015). 
2. ↑ Romanian Championships in Doubles ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 6, 2015). 
3. ↑ Romanian Championships in Mixed ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 6, 2015). 
4. ↑ ITTF world rankings from 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) .
5. ↑ Magazine Table Tennis , October 1958, page 9 online (accessed on May 6, 2015).
6. ^ Matei Gantner results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on May 6, 2015).