Piotr Molenda

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Piotr Molenda (born March 3, 1962 in Bielsko-Biała , Poland ) is a former Polish table tennis player . In the 1980s he took part in two world championships and once in the Olympic Games . He later played in the German Bundesliga .

Career

Piotr Molenda played for the Polish clubs BKS Stal Bielsko-Biała (1973-1976) and Tworzenie AZS Gliwice (1977-1988), with whom he became Polish team champion in 1987. In 1984 he won the national championship in mixed with Ewa Poźniak, in 1985 in doubles with Stefan Dryszel

1981 and 1987 Piotr Molenda was nominated for participation in the world championships. In the individual competitions he did not come close to medals, with the Polish team he reached eighth place in 1981 and fifth place in 1987 . At the European Championships in 1984 he made it to the final in a team competition.

In 1988 he qualified for participation in the individual competition at the Olympic Games in Seoul. Here he won against Sherif El-Saket (Egypt) and Jorge Gambra (Chile), but lost against Kiyoshi Saito (Japan), Kamlesh Mehta (India), Mariano Domuschiev (Bulgaria), Kim Ki-taik (South Korea) and Jörgen Persson ( Sweden). So he came in sixth in the opening act and was eliminated.

In 1990 he joined the German club 1. FC Bayreuth , which was still playing in the regional league at the time. In 1991 he moved to TTF Ochsenhausen in the Bundesliga , two years later he returned to FC Bayreuth, where he helped promote promotion to the 1st BL. In 1996/97 he also helped the TTK Würzburger Hofbräu team to move up to the 1st Bundesliga.

Other club stations were SV Adelsried (1997), Fortuna Passau (2000), DJK Altdorf (2003) and TTC Tiefenlauter (2006), where he is still active today (2015).

Private

Piotr Molenda has been married since 1991 and has one son.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
POLE European Championship 1984 Moscow URS 2
POLE Olympic games 1988 Seoul COR immediately excluded no participants
POLE World Championship 1987 New Delhi IND last 64 Agony no participants 5
POLE World Championship 1981 Novi Sad YUG Agony no participants no participants 8th

Web links

  • Piotr Molenda in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ) (accessed on March 16, 2015)
  • Biography (Polish) (accessed March 16, 2015)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1990/8 Regional, page 20
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1991/8 page 14
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1993/5, page 18
  4. ↑ a b Table tennis archive of Hans-Albert Meyer (accessed on March 16, 2015)
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/7 page 12
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1997/8 page 12
  7. ↑ DTS magazine , 2000/8 page 51
  8. ↑ General News - Season 2003/04 ( Memento from May 23, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 23, 2016)
  9. ↑ Piotr Molenda Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on March 16, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Molenda, Piotr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielsko-Biała , Poland