Otto Eckl
Otto Eckl (born December 28, 1922 in Vienna ; † January 3, 1993 ) was an Austrian table tennis player . He was five times Austrian champion and once German individual champion.
Career
Otto Eckl began his career in the Postsportverein Wien , with which he - after the annexation of Austria - became German team champion in 1939. In the same year he was also German individual champion.
After the Second World War , he won bronze twice with the Austrian team at a world championship. Five times he was champion of Austria in singles and doubles. In 1950 he took first place in the national ranking.
Eckl died in 1993. He was buried in the Hernals cemetery in Vienna .
Sporting successes
- Participation in world championships
- International championships
- 1939 in Brandenburg: 2nd place singles, 2nd place doubles (with Karl Sediwy )
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National German championships
- 1939 in Frankfurt / Main: 1st place individual
- 1940 in Baden (Vienna): 4th place singles, 1st place doubles (with Erwin Kaspar ), 1st place mixed (with Trude Pritzi )
- German team championships
- 1939 in Hamburg: 1st place with Postsportverein Wien
- Gaume Championships
- 1938 in Breslau: 1st place with the Ostmark team
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Austrian championships
- 1946 in Vienna: 1st place singles, 1st place mixed (with Trude Pritzi )
- 1947 in Vienna: 1st place individual, 1st place mixed (with Trude Pritzi )
- 1948 in Innsbruck: 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Heinrich Bednar ), 1st place mixed (with Trude Pritzi )
- 1950 in Linz: 1st place single, 1st place double (with Heribert Just )
- 1951 in Salzburg: 1st place doubles (with Heribert Just ), 1st place mixed (with Trude Pritzi )
- 1952 in Vienna: 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Heribert Just ), 1st place mixed (with Trude Pritzi )
- 1955 in Vienna: 2nd place doubles (with Heribert Just )
- 1956 in Baden: 1st place doubles (with Heribert Just )
- societies
- Postsportverein Vienna (from 1937)
- FK Austria Vienna
- TTC Vienna
- Meidling
Results from the ITTF database
| Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUT | World Championship | 1951 | Vienna | AUT | last 128 | Quarter finals | last 64 | 13 |
| AUT | World Championship | 1949 | Stockholm | SWE | last 64 | last 64 | last 32 | 7th |
| AUT | World Championship | 1948 | Wembley | CLOSELY | last 32 | no participants | last 16 | 3 |
| AUT | World Championship | 1947 | Paris | FRA | last 32 | last 16 | last 16 | 3 |
| AUT | World Championship | 1937 | to bathe | AUT | last 64 | Scratched | no participants |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Schäfer: A game for life. 75 years of DTTB. (1925-2000) . Published by the German Table Tennis Association DTTB , Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , pages 146–148
- ↑ Lower Austrian TT Association - Circular 1950 No. 15
- ↑ Grave at the Vienna cemetery (accessed on May 12, 2019)
- ↑ ITTF statistics (accessed on September 5, 2011)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eckl, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eckl, Otto Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 1993 |