Portuguese national table tennis team

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The Portuguese national table tennis team is the selection team of table tennis players who represent Portugal at World Championships , European Championships , the European Games and the Olympic Games . The Portuguese men's team won the European Championship in 2014 and the European Games in 2015 . The umbrella organization is the FPTM .

successes

European championships

European Games

Olympic games

  • Quarter-finals (1): 2012

World championships

history

World ranking positions of the best Portuguese table tennis players

Portugal was not represented at the first world championships in the period before the Second World War ; the first participation took place in 1951 . For a long time, however, it was not possible to achieve top positions, and the Portuguese team often did not even take part, for example between the World Championships in 1967 and 1981 . When they first participated in the European Championships in 1962 , the team finished eleventh, a result that they could only repeat in 2010 .

The first Portuguese player to reach the top 100 in the world rankings was João Monteiro , who finished 96th in March 2007. When he first took part in the World Cup in 2000 , the Portuguese team, which has continuously improved in the years that followed, was 59th. In June 2008, Tiago Apolónia and Marcos Freitas followed in the top 100, and this year Monteiro was the first Portuguese to reach it a top 50 placement, and at the World Cup , the team came in 27th, which they qualified for the Championship Division of the next World Cup. At the European Championships in the same year, however, she was relegated to 15th place in the Challenge Division, but in 2009 she was able to achieve the best possible 17th place and rise again. In 2010 Apolónia was the first Portuguese to achieve a top 20 placement, and in 2011 the team won their first international medal when they reached the EM semi-finals.

At the 2012 World Cup , Portugal moved into the main round for the first time, where they lost the round of 16 against Sweden . In addition, the team qualified for the first time for the Olympic Games , where a 3-0 win against Great Britain was followed by a narrow 2-3 defeat against the eventual silver medalist South Korea. A great success came in 2014: After reaching the quarter-finals at the World Cup , Portugal won gold at the home European championship in Lisbon with a surprising final victory over reigning champions Germany , and Marcos Freitas was the first Portuguese to be placed in the top 10 in November World ranking. At the first European Games in Baku in 2015 , Portugal also secured the gold medal, this year João Geraldo also made it into the top 100 as a fourth player. In 2016, the team made it back to the World Cup quarter- finals, but lost the Olympic Games in the first round against the reigning European champion Austria . In 2017, Portugal won silver at the European Championship after beating France in the semi-finals and losing to Germany in the final .

Current squad

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portugal is European champion for the first time / silver for DTTB team / German EM series torn. tischtennis.de, September 28, 2014, accessed on May 8, 2019 .