Peter-Paul Pradeeban
Peter-Paul Pradeeban (born May 17, 1977 in Colombo ) is a Sri Lankan table tennis trainer and player with an international career since 1996. Until 2008 he took part in nine world championships and in 2008 in the Olympic Games .
Career
Peter-Paul Pradeeban was born in Sri Lanka. At the end of the 1980s, he and his family fled to Germany to avoid political persecution at home. In Würzburg he devoted himself to table tennis for the first time. At the club DJK Würzburg he made rapid progress and in December 1992 together with Marko Marijanovic he became Bavarian youth champion in doubles.
In 1993 the family moved to Canada. In Ottawa he attended Rideau High School and Algonquin College. Since 1996 he has played table tennis under the Canadian flag. However, he was still active in Germany. So he played in the 1994/95 season for TV Ochsenfurt. In 1997 he joined the DJK Kleinwallstadt association. From 1997 to 2008 he took part in nine world championships , but never came close to medal ranks. He was more successful at the Pan American Games , where he won singles in 1999 and bronze with the team in 2007.
In 2008 he qualified to participate in the Olympic Games . Here he lost to the Brazilian Gustavo Tsuboi in the individual qualifying round . Even in the team fights he remained without a win. He was already leading 2-0 sets against Timo Boll , but lost 3-2.
In 2007, 2008 and 2018 he won the North American Individual Championships. His successes on the North American continent entitle him to take part in the World Cups several times .
He later became a table tennis coach in Canada.
literature
- White-blue TT-News from yesteryear , magazine tischtennis , 2018/1 Region 1 page 4
Web links
- Brief portrait (accessed on January 6, 2018)
- Nilma Dole: Sri Lankan Pradeeban is Canada's Greatest Asset (accessed January 6, 2018)
- Peter-Paul Pradeeban in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ) (accessed January 6, 2018)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reunion with Peter-Paul Pradeeban Article from September 7, 2017 on mainpost.de (accessed January 7, 2018)
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1997/8 page 21
- ↑ German table tennis team in the semi-finals thanks to Boll , article from August 14, 2008 (accessed January 6, 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pradeeban, Peter-Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th May 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Colombo |