René Roothooft

René Roothooft (* unknown) is a former French table tennis player from the 1950s. He took part in nine world championships.

Career

René Roothooft was a defender. The French National Championships , he won 14 titles: Single in 1951, 1952 and 1956, in a double in 1949 with Charles Dubouillé , 1951, 1953, 1956 and 1958, with Michel Lanskoy and in mixed doubles from 1953 to 1956 with Christiane Watel and 1958 and 1959 with Claude Rougagnou .

From 1947 to 1959 he was nominated nine times for world championships . He won bronze in the team competition in 1950 and 1953 . In 1952 he lost to the eventual world champion Hiroji Satō from Japan in the semifinals .

In 1952, René Roothooft was fourth in the ITTF world rankings .

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
FRA	World Championship	1959	Dortmund	FRG	last 256	no participants	no participants
FRA	World Championship	1957	Stockholm	SWE	last 64	Scratched	no participants	23
FRA	World Championship	1955	Utrecht	NED	last 32	last 64	last 32	5
FRA	World Championship	1954	Wembley	CLOSELY	Quarter finals	last 16	last 32	4th
FRA	World Championship	1953	Bucharest	ROU	Quarter finals	last 16	no participants	3
FRA	World Championship	1952	Bombay	IND	Semifinals	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	5
FRA	World Championship	1951	Vienna	AUT	Quarter finals	last 32	no participants	4th
FRA	World Championship	1950	Budapest	HUN	last 128	last 64	last 16	3
FRA	World Championship	1947	Paris	FRA	last 128	last 32	no participants

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1951/20 Page 2
2. ↑ ITTF world rankings from 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) (accessed on November 2, 2014)
3. ↑ René Roothooft Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed November 2, 2014)