Milivoj Karakašević

Milivoj Karakašević (born July 30, 1948 ) is a former Yugoslav table tennis player and trainer from the 1970s and 1980s. He won several Balkan championships and was European champion with the team in 1976. He is the father of national player Aleksandar Karakašević .

Career

Milivoj Karakašević started playing table tennis when he was 14. On the recommendation of his coach Gajić, he played penholder style.

Milivoj Karakašević achieved his first international success in the late 1960s. He won the Balkan Championships with the Yugoslav team in 1968 and the Mediterranean Championships in 1969, where he also reached the final in a mixed with Maria Louka. From 1969 to 1980 he won 18 medals at the Balkan Championships: six gold with the team, three gold in doubles and 1972 gold in singles. There are also seven second places and one participation in the semi-finals.

In 1977 he won the championship of Yugoslavia in singles and doubles with Zoran Kosanović .

From 1970 to 1982 Milivoj Karakašević took part in all seven European championships . In 1978 he reached the semi-finals in doubles with Zoran Kosanović, which was lost to the Germans Jochen Leiß / Peter Stellwag . In the team competition he was European champion in 1976 and second behind Sweden in 1970 and 1972 . In 1974 there was bronze.

He has been nominated for world championships five times . Here he and the team won two medals, namely bronze in 1971 and silver in 1975 .

After the end of his active career, Milivoj Karakašević worked from 1989 to 2001 as national coach for Yugoslavia and Serbia. Under his leadership, Yugoslavia was runner-up in 1991 .

Activities in Germany

In 1981, Milivoj Karakašević moved from STK Vojvodina Novi Sad to the German Bundesliga club TTC Herbornseelbach . However, he could not prevent relegation at the end of the 1981/82 season to the 2nd Bundesliga. A year later the ascent took place again. When the team had to relegate in 1984, he joined the TTC Grünweiß Bad Hamm . Other club stations were Valkenswaard (Netherlands) and Partizan Belgrade.

Private

Milivoj Karakašević is married and has two sons. He is an agricultural engineer by profession. Today (2012) he lives in Zemun , a district of Belgrade.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
YUG	Balkan Championship	1980	Varna	BUL	Semifinals		silver	1
YUG	Balkan Championship	1976	Samsun	DOOR		silver	silver	1
YUG	Balkan Championship	1974	Athens	GRE	silver	gold		1
YUG	Balkan Championship	1973	Sombor	YUG	silver	gold		1
YUG	Balkan Championship	1972	Ankara	DOOR	gold	gold		1
YUG	Balkan Championship	1969	Athens	GRE	silver		silver	1
YUG	Balkan Championship	1968	Skopje	YUG				1
YUG	European Championship	1982	Budapest	HUN	last 16
YUG	European Championship	1980	Bern	SUI		Quarter finals
YUG	European Championship	1978	Duisburg	FRG		Semifinals
YUG	European Championship	1976	Prague	TCH				1
YUG	European Championship	1974	Novi Sad	YUG	last 16
YUG	European Championship	1972	Rotterdam	NED				2
YUG	European Championship	1970	Moscow	URS		Quarter finals		2
YUG	EURO TOP12	1973	Boeblingen	FRG	11
YUG	EURO TOP12	1972	Zagreb	YUG	9
YUG	EURO TOP12	1971	Zadar	YUG	7th
YUG	Mediterranean Championship	1969	Athens	GRE	3rd place		silver	1
YUG	World Championship	1981	Novi Sad	YUG	Agony	last 32	no participants	7th
YUG	World Championship	1977	Birmingham	CLOSELY	last 32	last 64	last 32	8th
YUG	World Championship	1975	Calcutta	IND	last 32	last 64	no participants	2
YUG	World Championship	1973	Sarajevo	YUG	last 32	Quarter finals	last 64	6th
YUG	World Championship	1971	Nagoya	JPN	last 64	last 16	Scratched	3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1977/12 page 18
2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1981/12 page 8
3. ↑ TT-Archiv Hans-Albert Meyer: 2nd BL Men 1981 - 2000 (accessed on October 30, 2014)
4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1984/5 page 28
5. ↑ Milivoj Karakašević Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed October 30, 2014)

Web links

• Volkmar Schäfer: "A glass of milk, please!" , Article from September 24, 2012 on Mittelhessen.de (accessed October 30, 2014)