Nikita Madjaroglou

Nikita Madjaroglou - another spelling mainly in Greece is Nikos Madzaroglou - ( Greek Νίκος Μαντζάρογλου , * in Greece (date unknown); † April 13, 1950 in Athens ) was a German- Greek table tennis player . He was a two-time German champion and won a bronze medal at the 1931 World Cup .

Career

Madjaroglou was born in Greece, but lived in Dresden until around 1934. Around 1930 he played in a Magdeburg club, later with Blau-Weiß Dresden. Despite his Greek citizenship, he was allowed to take part in German championships and play in German teams - also internationally. He was a defender. Between 1930 and 1933 he played 33 international matches for Germany. During this time he was also first in the German rankings.

A first respectable success was his victory over the then Hungarian world class player Miklós Szabados at the 1930 World Cup .

Madjaroglou became the first German individual champion. He won this title in March 1931 in Magdeburg at the first German championship. At the same time he won the double competition here together with Heinz Nickelsburg . In the following year he defended his individual title.

At the world championships from 1930 to 1933 he competed with the German team because Greece was not yet a member of the ITTF world association . In the individual competitions, however, he appeared as a Greek. His greatest success was the bronze medal at the 1931 World Cup . After he had won against the Hungarians László Bellák , István Boros and Lajos Dávid , he won against the world champion Victor Barna in the first two sets, but then Barna prevailed with his attacking game and won the next three sets. In a provisional world rankings of the ITTF, Madjaroglou then finished 5 to 6 together with Charles Bull .

In 1934 criticism came from the National Socialist direction that a non-German born player was playing in a German team. This contributed to the fact that the German men stayed away from the 1934 World Cup.

Around this time Madjaroglou left Germany and from then on lived in Athens, where he joined the sports club Panathinaikos Athens . On April 12, 1950, he was seriously injured in a traffic accident; Despite an emergency operation, he succumbed to his injuries the following day.

successes

• World championships
  • 1930 in Berlin: Round of 16 in singles, quarter-finals in doubles, 7th place with German team
  • 1931 in Budapest: 3rd place singles (as Greek), quarterfinals in doubles, quarterfinals in mixed, 5th place with German team
  • 1932 in Prague: quarter-finals in individual, 5th place with German team
  • 1933 in Baden: 3rd place mixed with Annemarie Schulz , 7th place with German team

• National German championships
  • 1931 in Magdeburg - 1st place singles, 1st place doubles with Heinz Nickelsburg
  • 1932 in Dresden - 1st place individual

• International German championships
  • 1929 in Berlin - 2nd place individual
  • 1933 in Berlin - 2nd place mixed with Annemarie Schulz

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
GER	World Championship	1933	to bathe	AUT	last 64	last 32	Semifinals	7th
GER	World Championship	1932	Prague	TCH	Quarter finals	last 16	last 16	5
GER	World Championship	1931	Budapest	HUN	Semifinals	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	5
GER	World Championship	1930	Berlin	FRG	last 16	Quarter finals	no participants	7th

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Table Tennis Club 1929 Magdeburg-Neustadt" or "Magdeburg Table Tennis Club 1921 Green-White" according to the magazine Tennis & Golf, sole official organ of the German Tennis Association EV, 1930/10, page 297
2. ↑ Tennis & Golf magazine, sole official organ of the German Tennis Association EV, 1931/8 page 221
3. ↑ Nikita Madjaroglou results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 11, 2011)

Web links

• Biography and newspaper clipping with the news of his death. In: dailygoal.gr. Archived from the original on August 24, 2014 ; Retrieved August 24, 2014 (Greek).