Peter Engel (table tennis player)

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Peter Engel (born January 13, 1954 in Neukirchen-Vluyn ) is a German table tennis player and trainer. He was German champion in singles and doubles.

National successes

In 1966 Peter Engel joined the VfB Homberg club. Here he first played football as a goalkeeper, after a year he switched to the table tennis department. Peter Engel was already successful in youth tournaments. In 1971 he won the West German Youth Championship and 1973 the International German Championship with the German team. In 1975 he won the TOP-12 national ranking tournament.

Engel won the men's doubles championship together with Jochen Leiß in Lübeck in 1978 . In 1984 he was also German individual champion in Hanover. Between 1974 and 1984 he took third place in doubles six times. In 1976 he lost the final in mixed with Ursula Hirschmüller .

In 1975 he won the national ranking tournament before Peter Stellwag . He was German team champion several times: 1977 with SSV Reutlingen 05 , 1983, 1984, 1985 and 1989 with ATSV Saarbrücken . He won the German Team Cup in 1972 with the Meidericher TTC , 1977, 1980 and 1981 with Reutlingen, and 1985, 1986 and 1989 with Saarbrücken.

International success

Engel played 40 international matches between 1975 and 1983. At the 1975 World Cup he finished eighth with the German team , and fifth at the 1977 World Cup. Engel took part in a European Championship three times ( 1976 , 1978 , 1982 ). He reached the quarter-finals in doubles in 1976. Disappointed that he was not nominated for the 1983 World Cup , he withdrew from the national team.

He won the European Champion's Cup in 1986 with Saarbrücken, in 1987 and 1990 the team came second here. In the ETTU Nancy Evans Cup (formerly Messestädte-Pokal) he won 1980 with Reutlingen, 1982 and 1989 with Saarbrücken.

Coaching career

From 1990 Engel worked as a table tennis trainer. First he coached the team of ATSV Saarbrücken , since 1993 that of Spvg Steinhagen . From 1994 to 1999 he was the national coach of the Netherlands, after 1999 he headed a table tennis center in Barcelona. In 2004 he also took over the post of assistant coach at TTC Frickenhausen . Due to the economic crisis in Spain , he had to give up his job in Barcelona in 2011. From 2013 until he worked as a foreign expert ( foreign expert ) in India. At the beginning of 2015 he became a trainer at the Hessian Table Tennis Association as the successor to Helmut Hampl. He has been the Luxembourg national coach since July 2020.

Private

Engel was married to the multiple Hungarian TT European champion Judit Magos from the end of 1988 until her death in October 2018 and has a daughter named Stefanie.

societies

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
FRG  European Championship  1976  Prague  TCH     Quarter finals     
FRG  World Championship  1977  Birmingham  CLOSELY   last 64  last 64  Agony  5 
FRG  World Championship  1975  Calcutta  IND   last 128  last 64  last 32  8th 

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1983/9 page 14
  2. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2013/12 page 6
  3. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2015/1 page 6
  4. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2020/8 page 16
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1988/12 page 33
  6. ↑ Peter Engel (table tennis player) Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 5, 2011)

literature

  • Olaf Brockmann: Interview with Peter Engel. In: DTS . 13, 1977, p. 19.
  • Rahul Nelson: Have fun with the ideal host. In: DTS. 1, 1985, pages 35-36.
  • Rahul Nelson: The Foreign Expert , table tennis magazine , 2013/12 page 6
  • Rahul Nelson: Finesse is missing , interview, table tennis magazine , 2015/11 pages 32–36
personal data
SURNAME Angel, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player and trainer
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Neukirchen-Vluyn