Omar Assar

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Omar Assar Table tennis player
Nation: EgyptEgypt Egypt
Date of birth: July 22, 1991
Place of birth: Kafr el-Sheikh
Playing hand: right
How to play: Shakehand
Current world rankings : 17th
Best world ranking : 16 (Jan. 2018)

Omar Assar (born July 22, 1991 in Kafr el-Sheikh ) is an Egyptian table tennis player . He took part in the Olympic Games in 2012 and 2016 .

Career

World rankings of Quadri Aruna and Omar Assar since 2012

In May 2005 Assar was included in the world rankings for the first time . In the adult sector he has appeared since 2007 when he took part in his first world championship, in which he has competed for his home country every year since then; A total of thirteen times so far (as of 2019). In 2010 he won silver in singles and gold in doubles and with the team at the African Championships , and he also achieved his first Pro Tour victory when he won gold in doubles in Morocco. At the 2011 African Games he won gold in singles and with the team, silver in doubles and bronze in mixed. He also qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games and won silver in singles and doubles as well as gold in mixed and team at the African Championships in the same year - in the absence of main competitor Nigeria.

He made it into the top 100 in the world in June 2013 after making it into the last 32 at the World Cup . This also made him the best-placed African player for the first time. In the same month he won gold in singles at the Mediterranean Games . In 2014 he joined the French club Roanne LNTT , achieved third place in his first participation in the African Cup and won the first gold medal in individual at a World Tour tournament at the Nigeria Open. In the world rankings, he was overtaken by Quadri Aruna in November 2014 , since then the position as the best African player has changed several times between the two players. In 2015 he won - in addition to six medals in doubles, mixed and team competitions - in singles, the African Games, the African Championship and the Africa Cup. So he qualified for the first time for the World Cup in the same year, where he survived the preliminary round and then was eliminated by the reigning world champion and eventual winner Ma Long . At the world championship he came again under the last 32. At club level, he moved to Istres TT . In 2016 he qualified for the Olympic Games , where he reached the second round and lost there 3: 4 to Kou Lei . At the African Cup of Nations he defended his team, singles and mixed titles with Dina Meshref . For the 2017/18 season he then moved to the German Bundesliga club Werder Bremen . In 2017, after finishing second at the African Cup, he was also the first African player to qualify for the World Cup via his world rankings , where he was eliminated again in the main round against Ma Long. In 2018, his commitment was announced by Borussia Düsseldorf . In July it was reported that he was banned from the Egyptian Federation for a year because of an incident at the Mediterranean Games. Assar announced that a final decision had not yet been made, but in the period after the Mediterranean Games he did not take part in any international tournaments, including the African Championship and the World Cup, for which he won the Africa Cup had qualified. In this context, there was also speculation about Assar's acceptance of Swedish citizenship. At the end of 2018 it was published that Omar Assar suffers from mild depression and is being treated with medication, which is why he was temporarily unable to work. From the end of October, when he played at the Belgium Open, he was again present internationally.

societies

Others

His brother Khalid Assar plays table tennis in the first Danish league (2018).

Results from the ITTF database (excerpt)

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
EGY African Championship 2016 Agadir MAR gold gold 1
EGY African Championship 2015 Cairo EGY gold Semifinals gold 1
EGY African Championship 2012 Cairo EGY silver silver gold 1
EGY African Championship 2010 Yaounde CMR silver gold Quarter finals 1
EGY African Cup 2020 Tunis TO DO 3rd place
EGY African Cup 2019 Lagos NGR gold
EGY African Cup 2018 Nairobi KEN gold
EGY African Cup 2017 Agadir MOR silver
EGY African Cup 2016 Khartoum SOUTH silver
EGY African Cup 2015 Yaounde CMR gold
EGY African Cup 2014 Lagos NGR 3rd place
EGY Africa Games 2019 Rabat MAR Semifinals gold 1
EGY Africa Games 2015 Brazzaville CGO gold Semifinals Semifinals 2
EGY Africa Games 2011 Maputo MOZ gold silver Semifinals 1
EGY Arab Championships 2008 Rabat MAR 1
EGY Olympic games 2016 Rio de Janeiro BRA Last 48
EGY Olympic games 2012 London CLOSELY Last 64 9
EGY ITTF Challenge Series 2017 Lagos NGR gold Quarter finals
EGY ITTF World Tour 2015 Lagos NGR gold Semifinals
EGY ITTF World Tour 2014 Lagos NGR gold
EGY ITTF World Tour 2013 Cairo EGY Semifinals
EGY ITTF Pro Tour 2010 Rabat MAR Quarter finals gold
EGY World Championship 2019 Budapest HUN Last 128 Last 64 Last 64
EGY World Championship 2018 Halmstad SWE 21st
EGY World Championship 2017 Dusseldorf GER Last 64 Last 64 Last 16
EGY World Championship 2016 Kuala Lumpur MAS 27
EGY World Championship 2015 Suzhou CHN Last 32 Last 32 Last 128
EGY World Championship 2014 Tokyo JPN 29
EGY World Championship 2013 Paris FRA Last 32 Last 64 Last 64
EGY World Championship 2012 Dortmund GER 30th
EGY World Championship 2011 Rotterdam NED Agony Agony Last 64
EGY World Championship 2010 Moscow RUS 33
EGY World Championship 2009 Yokohama JPN Agony Last 64 Last 128
EGY World Championship 2008 Guangzhou CHN 28
EGY World Championship 2007 Zagreb HRV Agony Agony
EGY World cup 2019 Cheng you CHN 17th to 20th space
EGY World cup 2017 Liege BEL Last 16
EGY World cup 2015 Halmstad SWE Last 16
EGY Youth World Championship 2009 Cartagena de Indias COL Last 16
EGY Youth World Championship 2008 Madrid ESP Last 16
EGY World Junior Circuit 2009 Chungcheongnam-do COR Semifinals
EGY World Junior Circuit 2009 Cheng you CHN gold
EGY World Junior Circuit 2009 Władysławowo POLE silver
EGY World Junior Circuit 2009 Cairo EGY gold
EGY World Junior Circuit 2009 Doha QAT Semifinals
EGY World Junior Circuit 2009 Manama BRN gold
EGY World Junior Circuit 2008 Taiyuan CHN silver
EGY World Junior Circuit 2008 Tunis TO DO gold
EGY World Junior Circuit 2008 Alexandria EGY silver
EGY World Junior Circuit 2008 Doha QAT Semifinals
EGY World Junior Circuit 2008 Manama BRN gold
EGY World Junior Circuit 2007 Brazzaville CGO gold
EGY World Junior Circuit 2007 Ras-Al-Khaimah UAE Semifinals
EGY World Junior Circuit 2007 Montreal CAN Semifinals
EGY World Junior Circuit 2006 Al-Ain UAE Semifinals
EGY World Junior Circuit Finals 2009 Tokyo JPN silver
EGY World Junior Circuit Finals 2008 Helsingborg SWE silver
EGY WTC World Team Cup 2013 Guangzhou CHN 3
EGY WTC World Team Cup 2011 Magdeburg GER 10

literature

  • Susanne Heuing: With heart and devotion , tischtennis magazine , 2018/2, pages 9–13

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
  2. ↑ Assar, Omar. In: http://www.tischtennis-infos.de . Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Bremen signs Africa champion Omar Assar. ttbl.de, March 1, 2017, accessed May 15, 2017 .
  4. ^ First ever African, not the continental champion, Omar Assar ready for Liège. ittf.com, October 4, 2017, accessed September 8, 2018 .
  5. ↑ ttbl.de: Assar is moving to Düsseldorf. February 7, 2018, accessed February 9, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Assar contradicts reports of ban. ttbl.de, July 13, 2018, accessed September 8, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Omar Assar: Take the next step despite anger with the Egyptian association. mytischtennis.de, August 9, 2018, accessed on September 8, 2018 .
  8. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2018/12 pages 20–21
  9. ↑ Major contenders left stunned on dramatic opening day in De Haan. ittf.com, October 25, 2018, accessed October 26, 2018 .
  10. ^ Ian Marshall: Consistently compared, part of life for Khalid Assar. ittf.com, September 11, 2017, accessed March 26, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Omar Assar results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed April 2, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Assar, Omar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Kafr el-Sheikh