Radu Negulescu

Radu Negulescu , after 1980 Johann R. Wolf (born March 22, 1941 in Bistrița , German Bistritz ), is a Romanian- German gynecologist and former Romanian national table tennis player from the 1960s. He became vice European champion in 1960.

Athletic career

Even in his youth, Radu Negulescu achieved several successes at European youth championships: in 1958 he won doubles with Gheorghe Cobirzan and with the team, a year later he won the singles, doubles with Adalbert Rethi and mixed with Mariana Barasch. In 1960 he was nominated for the European Championship for the first time . He achieved his greatest success by becoming vice European champion behind the Hungarian Zoltán Berczik . He also won silver in mixed with Angelica Rozeanu . At the European Championships in 1964, 1966 and 1968 he no longer won a medal. From 1959 to 1967 he took part in five world championships . At the Balkan Championships he was first four times in the 1960s (inter alia in the doubles in 1964 with Dorin Giurgiucă and 1967 with Adalbert Rethi and in 1966 in mixed with Carmen Crişan) and five times second.

He was national champion six times in singles (1959, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1967), five times in doubles (1961 to 1964 with Adalbert Rethi, 1968 with Dorin Giurgiucă) and in 1964 in mixed Maria Alexandru . With the club CSM Cluj he won the European Cup in 1961, 1964, 1965, 1966 and 1967 .

His successes were honored with the title of Master of Sports . After 1968 Radu Negulescu no longer appeared internationally.

Private life and career as a gynecologist

Negulescu's father, Jean, a doctor, was of German descent. Radu Negulescu is married and has two children. He worked as a gynecologist in a clinic in Cluj-Napoca. In 1975 he took a position as an assistant doctor at the women's clinic in Ulm, while playing at SSV Ulm in 1846 in the Baden-Württemberg League. In 1981 he finally moved to Germany with his family because he saw better prospects for his children here. He changed his name to Johann R. Wolf and had a practice as a gynecologist in Pulheim until he retired at the end of 2006 .

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
ROU	Balkan Championship	1967	Antalya	DOOR	silver	gold
ROU	Balkan Championship	1966	Brasov	ROU	Semifinals	silver	gold
ROU	Balkan Championship	1964	Athens	GRE		gold	silver	1
ROU	Balkan Championship	1963	Athens	GRE	Semifinals	silver	silver
ROU	European Championship	1968	Lyon	FRA	last 16
ROU	European Championship	1966	London	CLOSELY	last 16
ROU	European Championship	1964	Malmo	SWE			Quarter finals
ROU	European Championship	1960	Zagreb	YUG	silver		silver
ROU	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1959	Constanza	ROU	gold	gold	gold
ROU	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1958	Falkenberg	SWE		gold		1
ROU	World Championship	1967	Stockholm	SWE	last 16	last 16	last 64	9
ROU	World Championship	1965	Ljubljana	YUG	last 128	last 16	last 16	11
ROU	World Championship	1963	Prague	TCH	last 32	last 128	last 32	13
ROU	World Championship	1961	Beijing	CHN	last 64	last 16	last 64	8th
ROU	World Championship	1959	Dortmund	FRG	last 64	last 32	last 32	9

Web links

• Article on Radu Negulescu (Romanian) (accessed March 19, 2012)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Romanian Championships Individual (accessed on March 19, 2012) ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Romanian Championships Doubles (accessed on March 19, 2012) ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Romanian Championships Mixed (accessed on March 19, 2012) ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .   
2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1976/2 p. 45.
3. ^ ITTF statistics (accessed March 19, 2012).