Nicky Jarvis

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Nicky Jarvis (* around 1954 ) is a former English table tennis player from the 1970s. He took part in three world championships and several European championships.

Career

At the National English Championships Nicky Jarvis won two titles, first in 1974/75 in mixed with Jill Hammersley and 1979/80 in doubles with Paul Day . He was nominated for three world championships, namely 1973 , 1975 and 1979 , but won no medals. At the 1978 European Championship in Duisburg, he won silver with the English team. He also recorded successes at the Commonwealth Championships, where he was first with the team in 1973 and 1975 and also reached the semi-finals in 1973 in the individual. In total, he came to more than 250 appearances in the national team.

In the 1978/79 season Nicky Jarvis played with TTC Grünweiß Bad Hamm in the German Bundesliga .

After the end of his active career as a competitive athlete, he worked in the coaching team of the English national team until 1988.

Private

In June 1979 Nicky Jarvis married the English table tennis player Linda Howard . Their son Matt Jarvis (* 1986) is a well-known soccer player. Linda and Nicky Jarvis have been running a table tennis equipment store called "Jarvis Sport" since 1983.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
CLOSELY Commonwealth Championship 1975 Melbourne OUT 1
CLOSELY Commonwealth Championship 1973 Cardiff WHALE Semifinals 1
CLOSELY European Championship 1978 Duisburg FRG 2
CLOSELY European Championship 1972 Rotterdam NED Quarter finals
CLOSELY World Championship 1979 Pyongyang PRK last 128 last 16 last 32 10
CLOSELY World Championship 1975 Calcutta IND last 128 last 64 Agony 12
CLOSELY World Championship 1973 Sarajevo YUG Agony last 32 no participants 10

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ was 15 years old in January 1970 according to the magazine "Table Tennis News", January 1970, page 22 online (accessed October 21, 2014)
  2. ↑ Table tennis: Legend lives on at trio's reunion , article from November 26, 2008 in GazetteLive (accessed October 21, 2014)
  3. ^ Chronicle of the TTC Grünweiß Bad Hamm (accessed on October 21, 2014)
  4. ^ "Table Tennis News" magazine, April 1988, page 12 Online (accessed October 21, 2014)
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1979/8 page 4
  6. ^ "The History of Jarvis Sports" ( Memento from April 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Jarvis Sports) (accessed October 21, 2014)
  7. ↑ Nicky Jarvis results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed October 21, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Jarvis, Nicky
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH around 1954