Otilia Bădescu

Otilia Bădescu (born October 31, 1970 in Bucharest ) is a former Romanian table tennis player . She was multiple European champion.

youth

In 1985 Bădescu was the first Romanian champion in singles. She defended the title in 1986, 1987 and 1989. She won this championship five times in doubles: 1984, 1985, 1987 (each with Maria Alboiu ), 1988 (with Kinga Lohr ) and 1989 (with Maria Bogoslov ).

Already in 1983 she became European champion for pupils. She won further titles at European Youth Championships in 1984 in singles and doubles (with Kinga Lohr), 1985 in singles and doubles (with Emilia Ciosu ) and with the Romanian team, in 1987 in doubles (with Kinga Lohr) and in 1988 in singles and mixed (with Călin Creangă ).

Ladies

From 1985 to 2005, the only 1.60 m tall Bădescu took part in 12 world championships . In 1993 she reached the semi-finals in singles.

From 1986 to 2005 she was nominated nine times for European championships . After silver in singles in 1988, she won the title in 2003. In mixed she had already won the title in 1992 (with Călin Creangă ) and 1998 (with Ilija Lupulesku ). In 1992 and 2005 she won gold with the Romanian team. At the European Championships in 1990, Bădescu received the fair play trophy because she had admitted some edge balls to her disadvantage.

In 1995, Bădescu took first place in the European ranking tournament Europe TOP-12 . In 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 she took part in the Summer Olympic Games.

In autumn 2005 the Romanian national players Otilia Bădescu, Mihaela Șteff and Adriana Năstase-Simion-Zamfir refused to sign the contracts submitted by the Romanian table tennis association, according to which they forego 10% of the income from the ITTF Pro Tour in favor of the association should.

Activities abroad

Bădescu joined several foreign associations: Juroku Bank Ltd. (Japan; until 1998), SV Böblingen (1998/99), Postas Matav SE Budapest (2002), Montpellier TT. Elche (Spain). After losing to incumbent Cristinel Romanescu in the presidential elections of the Romanian Table Tennis Association on November 17, 2005 , she moved to Germany and played in the German women's league from 2006 to 2007 at the TTC Troisdorf club .

Private

Bădescu grew up in Bucharest. She has a younger brother, Mihai Badescu (1980), a tennis player.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
ROU	Balkan Championship	1991	Sakarya	DOOR	silver	gold	gold	1
ROU	Balkan Championship	1987	Constanza	ROU	gold	gold		1
ROU	Balkan Championship	1985	Pleven	BUL		gold
ROU	Balkan Championship	1984	Athens	GRE		silver
ROU	Balkan Championship	1983	Ivangrad	YUG				1
ROU	European Championship	2005	Aarhus	THE		Quarter finals	Quarter finals	1
ROU	European Championship	2003	Courmayeur	ITA	gold		Semifinals
ROU	European Championship	1998	Eindhoven	NED	last 16	silver	gold
ROU	European Championship	1996	Bratislava	SVK		Semifinals	silver
ROU	European Championship	1994	Birmingham	CLOSELY	Quarter finals		silver
ROU	European Championship	1992	Stuttgart	GER	last 16	Quarter finals	gold	1
ROU	European Championship	1990	Gothenburg	SWE	Semifinals	Quarter finals
ROU	European Championship	1988	Paris	FRA	silver	Semifinals	Semifinals
ROU	European Championship	1986	Prague	TCH	Semifinals	Semifinals
ROU	European Youth Championship (Cadets)	1985	The hague	NED	gold	gold		1
ROU	European Youth Championship (Cadets)	1984	Linz	AUT	gold	gold
ROU	European Youth Championship (Cadets)	1983	Malmo	SWE	gold
ROU	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1988	Novi Sad	YUG	gold		gold
ROU	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1987	Athens	GRE		gold	silver	1
ROU	EURO TOP12	2005	Rennes	FRA	5th place
ROU	EURO TOP12	2004	Frankfurt	GER	5th place
ROU	EURO TOP12	2003	Saarbrücken	GER	9th place
ROU	EURO TOP12	2001	catfish	AUT	3
ROU	EURO TOP12	1998	Halmstad	SWE	11
ROU	EURO TOP12	1997	Eindhoven	NED	3
ROU	EURO TOP12	1995	Dijon	FRA	1
ROU	EURO TOP12	1994	Arezzo	ITA	2
ROU	EURO TOP12	1993	Copenhagen	THE	3
ROU	EURO TOP12	1992	Vienna	AUT	3
ROU	EURO TOP12	1991	Hertogenbosch	NED	7th
ROU	EURO TOP12	1990	Hanover	FRG	7th
ROU	EURO TOP12	1988	Ljubljana	YUG	6th
ROU	Olympic games	2004	Athens	GRE	last 64
ROU	Olympic games	2000	Sydney	OUT	last 32	Quarter finals
ROU	Olympic games	1996	Atlanta	United States	last 16	no participants
ROU	Olympic games	1992	Barcelona	ESP	last 16	immediately excluded
ROU	Pro tour	2006	Bayreuth	GER	last 32
ROU	Pro tour	2006	Belgrade	SRB	last 16	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	2005	Doha	QAT	last 32	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	2005	Velenje	SVN	last 64	silver
ROU	Pro tour	2004	St. Petersburg	RUS	Quarter finals	silver
ROU	Pro tour	2004	catfish	AUT	last 32	Quarter finals
ROU	Pro tour	2004	Warsaw	POLE	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
ROU	Pro tour	2004	Kobe	JPN	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	2004	Chicago	United States	last 32	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	2004	Cairo	EGY	last 16	Quarter finals
ROU	Pro tour	2003	Malmo	SWE	last 32
ROU	Pro tour	2003	Bremen	GER	last 32	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	2003	Kobe	JPN	last 64
ROU	Pro tour	2003	Croatia	HRV	last 64	Semifinals
ROU	Pro tour	2002	Farum	THE	last 32	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	2002	Warsaw	POLE	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
ROU	Pro tour	2002	Eindhoven	NED	last 32
ROU	Pro tour	2002	Magdeburg	GER	last 64
ROU	Pro tour	2001	Farum	THE	last 16	Quarter finals
ROU	Pro tour	2001	Rotterdam	NED	last 32	Quarter finals
ROU	Pro tour	2001	Bayreuth	GER	last 16	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	2001	Zagreb	HRV	last 16	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	2000	Farum	THE	last 16	Quarter finals
ROU	Pro tour	2000	Umeå	SWE	last 16	Semifinals
ROU	Pro tour	2000	Warsaw	POLE	last 16	silver
ROU	Pro tour	1999	Prague	CZE	gold	Quarter finals
ROU	Pro tour	1999	Linz / Wels	AUT	Scratched	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	1999	Bremen	GER	last 16	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	1998	Sundsvall	SWE	last 32	Rd 1
ROU	Pro tour	1998	Courmayeur	ITA	last 32	Quarter finals
ROU	Pro tour	1997	Lyon	FRA	last 16	Scratched
ROU	Pro tour	1997	Squid	SWE	last 16	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	1997	Linz	AUT	Rd 1	Quarter finals
ROU	Pro tour	1997	Fort Lauderdale	United States	last 16	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	1996	Belgrade	YUG		Semifinals
ROU	Pro tour	1996	Kitaku-Shu	JPN		Semifinals
ROU	World Championship	2005	Shanghai	CHN	last 64		last 32
ROU	World Championship	2004	Doha	QAT				5
ROU	World Championship	2003	Paris	FRA	last 16		last 32
ROU	World Championship	2001	Osaka	JPN	last 32	last 16	last 64	5
ROU	World Championship	2000	Kuala Lumpur	MAS				3-4
ROU	World Championship	1999	Eindhoven	NED	last 32	last 32	last 16
ROU	World Championship	1997	Manchester	CLOSELY	last 64	Quarter finals	no participants	7th
ROU	World Championship	1995	Tianjin	CHN	last 32	last 16	Quarter finals	4th
ROU	World Championship	1993	Gothenburg	SWE	Semifinals	last 16	last 32	9
ROU	World Championship	1991	Chiba City	JPN	last 32	last 32	Semifinals	6th
ROU	World Championship	1989	Dortmund	FRG	last 16	last 16	no participants	14th
ROU	World Championship	1985	Gothenburg	SWE	last 64	last 64	last 64	11
ROU	World cup	2004	Hangzhou	CHN	13-16 space
ROU	World cup	2003	Hong Kong	HKG	9-12 space
ROU	World cup	1996	Hong Kong	HKG	9-12 space
ROU	WTC World Team Cup	1995	Atlanta	United States				2

literature

• Rahul Nelson: A talented movement with unbridled joy of playing: Otilia Bădescu , DTS magazine , 1990/4 pages 48–50

Web links

• Otilia Bădescu in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait ( Memento from February 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed October 4, 2012)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2008 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. . 
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2008 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. . 
3. ↑ European Youth Championships (accessed on January 7, 2016).
4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1990/5, page 10.
5. ↑ Mihaela Steff demisioneaza prin e-mail - Cotidianul of September 26, 2005 ( memento of March 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 4, 2010 (Romanian).
6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1998/6 page 8 + 1999/10 page 9.
7. ↑ Otilia Badescu a pierdut alegerile pentru presedintie ( Memento of February 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), article of November 19, 2005 in Gazeta de Olt - Romanian.
8. ^ Otilia Bădescu results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 3, 2011)