Paul Haldan

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Paul Haldan 1986

Paul Haldan (born April 12, 1965 in Craiova ) is a Romanian- born Dutch table tennis player with his prime in the 1980s and 1990s. He took part in the 1992 Olympics.

Career

Paul Haldan was six times national Dutch champion in singles (1986-1990 and 1994) and twice in doubles (1987 with Henk van Spanje , 1988 with Ron van Spanje ). From 1988 to 1994 he took part in five world championships and four European championships , but never came close to medal ranks.

In 1992 he qualified for the individual competitions at the 1992 Olympic Games . Here he was first in qualifying group M by defeating José María Pales (Spain), Anton Suseno (Indonesia) and Mikael Appelgren (Sweden). In the main round, however, he was defeated by the Chinese Ma Wenge .

At the end of 1992 he was ranked 28th in the ITTF world rankings .

Activities in Germany

For several years Paul Haldan played in the 2nd German Bundesliga . In 1985 he moved from the Dutch club TTV Apeldoorn to FTG Frankfurt , with whom he became champion in the 2nd Bundesliga Southwest in 1986. After further stations at Sparvägens GoIF Stockholm (1989) and again at TTV Apeldoorn, he joined the second division club 1. FC Bayreuth in 1993 . In 1994 he was also champion in the 2nd Bundesliga South with his men's team. A year later he was signed by TTC Altena , which he helped win the championship in the 2nd Bundesliga North in 1996. In 1996 he went to Borussia Dortmund . Here, too, the team came first in the men's north 2nd division in 2004.

In 2006 Paul Haldan ended his career.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
NED European Championship 1990 Gothenburg SWE Quarter finals
NED European Championship 1988 Paris FRA Quarter finals
NED EURO TOP12 1991 Hertogenbosch NED 11
NED Olympic games 1992 Barcelona ESP last 16 no participants
NED World Championship 1993 Gothenburg SWE last 32 last 64 last 64 17th
NED World Championship 1991 Chiba City JPN last 32 Scratched Scratched 17th
NED World Championship 1989 Dortmund FRG last 128 last 64 no participants 12
NED World Championship 1987 New Delhi IND last 128 last 64 Scratched 18th
NED WTC World Team Cup 1990 Hokkaido, Aomori, Niig JPN 5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ITTF world rankings from 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) (accessed on March 2, 2014)
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1985/6 page 22
  3. ↑ a b c table tennis archive of Hans-Albert Meyer, 2nd Bundesliga men from 1981/82 - 1999/00 (accessed on March 2, 2014)
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1989/11 page 42
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1993/8 page 39
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/6 page 18
  7. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/6 page 29
  8. ↑ Table tennis archive of Hans-Albert Meyer, 2nd Bundesliga men from 2000/01 (accessed on March 2, 2014)
  9. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2006/8 page 38
  10. ^ Paul Haldan results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed March 2, 2014)

Web links

Commons : Paul Haldan  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Paul Haldan in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ) (accessed March 2, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Haldan, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Craiova