Panagiotis Gionis
Panagiotis Gionis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other spellings: | Παναγιώτης Γκιώνης | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nation: | Greece | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of birth: | January 7, 1980 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth: | Marousi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing hand: | Right handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
How to play: | Defender | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current world rankings : | 69 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Best world ranking : | 18 (November 2014) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current continental ranking position: | 6 (Feb 2016) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Last update of the infobox: March 11, 2016 |
Panagiotis Gionis ( Greek Παναγιώτης Γκιώνης, born January 7, 1980 in Marousi ) is a Greek table tennis player . He is a modern defender with frequent topspin inserts and strong counterattacks . He took part in the Olympic Games three times.
successes
Gionis was four times Greek individual champion. At the Mediterranean Games in Pescara in 2009, he won the final against Croatian Andrej Gaćina . Since 1997 he has participated in 15 world championships , where he reached sixth place in the team competition in 1997 .
In the final of the European table tennis team championships in 2013 between Greece and Germany, the 64th in the world rankings won, after surprising successes in the previous rounds, initially in five sets against the later European team champion Patrick Baum and lost in the decisive game in 1: 3 Sentences against Dimitrij Ovtcharov . In the individual, the 33-year-old won a bronze medal, but was defeated in the game for third place to Belarusian Vladimir Samsonov with 2: 4 sets.
Gionis played for various European clubs. In 2001 he moved from the Greek club AC Pere to Germany for the second division WTTF Ramstein, and in 2003 he joined the French TT club in Metz. From 2008 to 2014 he played in France for Angers Vaillante Sports, with whose team he reached the final of the ETTU Cup in 2012 . He was then signed by Borussia Düsseldorf , with whose team he won the German championship and cup in the 2014/15 and 2015/16 seasons .
At the beginning of 2016 his move from Düsseldorf to the Polish club Bogoria Grodzisk was announced, from there he moved to the Czech Republic to TTC Ostrava in 2017.
Private
Panagiotis Gionis is a dentist .
Equipment
Gionis uses a Petr Korbel FL blade from Butterfly with the Butterfly Tenergy 05 rubber on the forehand and the Butterfly Feint Long II rubber on the backhand.
Results from the ITTF database
Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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GRE | Balkan Championship | 1996 | Vranje | YUG | gold | |||
GRE | European Championship | 2012 | Herning | THE | last 16 | last 16 | ||
GRE | European Championship | 2009 | Stuttgart | GER | last 16 | |||
GRE | European Championship | 2007 | Belgrade | SRB | last 16 | |||
GRE | European Youth Championship (Juniors) | 1996 | Frydek-Mistek | CZE | gold | |||
GRE | Mediterranean Games | 2009 | Pescara | ITA | gold | |||
GRE | Olympic games | 2016 | Rio de Janeiro | BRA | last 32 | |||
GRE | Olympic games | 2012 | London | CLOSELY | last 32 | |||
GRE | Olympic games | 2008 | Beijing | CHN | last 64 | 9 | ||
GRE | Olympic games | 2004 | Athens | GRE | last 128 | last 32 | ||
GRE | Pro tour | 2013 | catfish | AUT | last 64 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2012 | Budapest | HUN | last 16 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2011 | Schwechat | AUT | last 32 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2011 | Almeria | ESP | last 32 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2011 | Władysławowo | POLE | last 64 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2011 | Sheffield | CLOSELY | last 32 | last 16 | ||
GRE | Pro tour | 2010 | Warsaw | POLE | last 16 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2010 | catfish | AUT | last 32 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2010 | Berlin | GER | last 32 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2010 | Velenje | SVN | last 32 | last 16 | ||
GRE | Pro tour | 2009 | Warsaw | POLE | last 16 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2009 | Sheffield | CLOSELY | last 32 | last 16 | ||
GRE | Pro tour | 2009 | Bremen | GER | last 32 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2008 | Warsaw | POLE | last 16 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2008 | Singapore | SIN | last 16 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2008 | Doha | QAT | last 64 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2008 | Velenje | SVN | last 64 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2007 | Toulouse | FRA | last 64 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2007 | St. Petersburg | RUS | last 64 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2007 | Doha | QAT | last 64 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2007 | Velenje | SVN | last 32 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2006 | Warsaw | POLE | last 32 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2006 | Bayreuth | GER | last 32 | last 16 | ||
GRE | Pro tour | 2006 | St. Petersburg | RUS | last 64 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2006 | Belgrade | SRB | last 16 | last 16 | ||
GRE | Pro tour | 2006 | Singapore | SIN | last 32 | Scratched | ||
GRE | Pro tour | 2006 | Kuwait City | KUW | last 16 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2006 | Zagreb | HRV | last 64 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2006 | Velenje | SVN | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
GRE | Pro tour | 2005 | Gothenburg | SWE | last 32 | Semifinals | ||
GRE | Pro tour | 2005 | Magdeburg | GER | last 32 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2005 | St. Petersburg | RUS | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
GRE | Pro tour | 2005 | Fort Lauderdale | United States | last 16 | last 16 | ||
GRE | Pro tour | 2004 | St. Petersburg | RUS | last 16 | last 16 | ||
GRE | Pro tour | 2004 | catfish | AUT | last 64 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2004 | Leipzig | GER | last 64 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2004 | Warsaw | POLE | last 64 | silver | ||
GRE | Pro tour | 2004 | Singapore | SIN | last 64 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2004 | Pyeongchang | COR | last 16 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2004 | Cairo | EGY | last 64 | Semifinals | ||
GRE | Pro tour | 2004 | Croatia | HRV | last 32 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2003 | Malmo | SWE | last 64 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2003 | Guangzhou | CHN | last 32 | last 16 | ||
GRE | Pro tour | 2003 | Jeju-Si | COR | last 64 | last 16 | ||
GRE | Pro tour | 2002 | Doha | QAT | last 64 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2002 | Cairo | EGY | last 64 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2001 | Farum | THE | Rd 1 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2001 | Bayreuth | GER | last 64 | last 32 | ||
GRE | Pro tour | 2001 | Fort Lauderdale | United States | Rd 1 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 2001 | Chatham | CLOSELY | last 32 | Rd 1 | ||
GRE | Pro tour | 1998 | Belgrade | YUG | Rd 1 | |||
GRE | Pro tour | 1997 | Belgrade | YUG | Rd 1 | last 16 | ||
GRE | Pro tour | 1997 | Gdańsk | POLE | Rd 1 | |||
GRE | World Championship | 2013 | Paris | FRA | last 64 | last 64 | ||
GRE | World Championship | 2012 | Dortmund | GER | 15th | |||
GRE | World Championship | 2011 | Rotterdam | NED | last 32 | last 64 | ||
GRE | World Championship | 2010 | Moscow | RUS | 20th | |||
GRE | World Championship | 2009 | Yokohama | JPN | last 16 | last 32 | last 64 | |
GRE | World Championship | 2008 | Guangzhou | CHN | 23 | |||
GRE | World Championship | 2007 | Zagreb | HRV | last 64 | last 32 | last 64 | |
GRE | World Championship | 2006 | Bremen | GER | 11 | |||
GRE | World Championship | 2005 | Shanghai | CHN | last 32 | last 64 | last 64 | |
GRE | World Championship | 2004 | Doha | QAT | 20th | |||
GRE | World Championship | 2003 | Paris | FRA | last 128 | last 64 | last 64 | |
GRE | World Championship | 2001 | Osaka | JPN | Agony | Agony | no participants | 9 |
GRE | World Championship | 2000 | Kuala Lumpur | MAS | 13-16 | |||
GRE | World Championship | 1999 | Eindhoven | NED | no participants | no participants | no participants | |
GRE | World Championship | 1997 | Manchester | CLOSELY | Rd 1 | last 32 | last 128 | 6th |
literature
- Rahul Nelson: Greek with body and soul , magazine tischtennis , 2015/2 pages 8–13
Web links
- Panagiotis Gionis in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ) (accessed October 9, 2013)
- Panagiotis Gionis biography on the website of the table tennis world association ittf.com (English) (accessed on October 9, 2013)
- Panagiotis Gionis Article about Panagiotis Gionis on the website of the World Table Tennis Federation ittf.com (accessed October 9, 2013)
Individual evidence
- ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
- ↑ Ian Marshall: New Chapter Written, Modern Greek Drama Sees Hellenic Trio Book Final Place ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on October 9, 2013)
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2001/6 page 25 and 2001/8 page 34
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2003/8 page 19
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2014/6 page 23
- ↑ borussia-duesseldorf.com - Defensive artist Gionis is leaving Borussia ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2016 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. (accessed on February 1, 2016)
- ↑ RP ONLINE: Table tennis player Gionis: Dentist on the plate. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
- ^ Panagiotis Gionis | Table tennis team member. In: Butterfly Online. Retrieved April 22, 2016 (American English).
- ↑ Panagiotis Gionis results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on October 9, 2013)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gionis, Panagiotis |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Γκιώνης, Παναγιώτης (Greek) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek table tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1980 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Marousi |