Renata Kasalová

Renata Kasalová
Nation:	Slovakia
Date of birth:	March 5th 1969
Place of birth:	Bánovce nad Bebravou

Renata Kasalová (born March 5, 1969 in Bánovce nad Bebravou ) is a Slovak table tennis player . She is five times European youth champion and won four medals at European adult championships. She also took part in the 1988 Olympic Games .

Career

Renata Kasalová began playing table tennis at the Spartak ZŤS Topoľčany club, where she was trained by Ľuboš Goga. Once in Bratislava a second power center was established for the Czechoslovak table tennis, she moved in 1986 to Lokomotíva Bratislava, where Vladimír Mihočko to 1990 was their coach. Until 1991 she was active for the club, which has since been renamed ŠKST Butterfly Bratislava.

In 1985 and 1988 she was Czechoslovak individual champion. Together with Marie Hrachová she won the Czechoslovak championship in doubles in 1987 and 1988 and in 1989 with Tomáš Jančí the title in mixed. Kasalová became Slovak champion in singles four times (1985-1987, 1989), together with Renata Žaťková she won the doubles title in 1986 and 1989. In mixed she became Slovak champion in 1985 (with Vladimír Vinkler) as well as in 1986 and 1987 (with Milan Grman ).

She achieved her first international successes at the European Youth Championships, where she won a total of nine medals:

• 1983: Silver in singles, gold in doubles with Renata Lindnerová
• 1984: Silver mixed with Milan Grman
• 1985: Gold in doubles with Daniela Davídková , silver in mixed with Milan Grman, gold with the team
• 1986: Silver in doubles with Daniela Davídková, gold in mixed with Milan Grman, gold with the team

From 1983 to 1991 she took part in five world championships for adults. She never came close to a medal. In 1993 she reached the semi-finals at the European Championships in both singles and doubles with Marie Hrachová , with the team she became vice European champion. This second place in the team competition was defended at the EM 1990 .

In 1988 she qualified for participation in the Olympic Games . Here she came into the main round after victories over Elizabeth Popper (Venezuela), Jaklein Al-Duqom (Jordan), Lin Li-Ju (Taiwan) and Hui So Hung (Hong Kong) as well as a defeat against South Korean Yang Yeong-Ja, where she was eliminated by Hong Cha-Ok (South Korea). In the double competition she competed with Marie Hrachová and reached the quarterfinals after five wins and one defeat in the preliminary round. Here they were subject to the Yugoslav couple Gordana Perkučin / Jasna Fazlić . In the game for fifth place they prevailed against Fliura Bulatowa / Elena Kovtun .

With the women's team, she won the International English Championship in 1986 and the International Championship of the ČSFR in 1991 .

In 1988 she was ranked 26th in the ITTF world rankings .

In 1993 Renata Kasalová joined SV Schwechat in Austria . From 1994 to 1995 she played for Arttep Pap Topoľčany in the super league . In the 1996/97 season she played - at that time under her married name Renata Manaková - in the German Bundesliga at the TTC Kassel club .

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
TCH	European Championship	1990	Gothenburg	SWE			Quarter finals	2
TCH	European Championship	1988	Paris	FRA	Semifinals	Semifinals	Quarter finals	2
TCH	European Youth Championship (Cadets)	1983	Malmo	SWE	silver	gold
TCH	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1986	Louvin La Neuve	BEL		silver	gold	1
TCH	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1985	The hague	NED		gold	silver	1
TCH	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1984	Linz	AUT			silver
TCH	EURO TOP12	1990	Hanover	FRG	11
TCH	EURO TOP12	1989	Charleroi	BEL	5
TCH	EURO TOP12	1988	Ljubljana	YUG	5
TCH	Olympic games	1988	Seoul	COR	last 16	5
TCH	World Championship	1991	Chiba City	JPN	last 64	last 32	last 128	7th
TCH	World Championship	1989	Dortmund	FRG	last 64	last 32	last 64	7th
TCH	World Championship	1987	New Delhi	IND	last 32	Quarter finals	last 16	9
TCH	World Championship	1985	Gothenburg	SWE	last 64	last 32	Agony	8th
TCH	World Championship	1983	Tokyo	JPN	last 128	last 64	Agony	6th
TCH	World Doubles Cup	1990	Seoul	COR		Quarter finals
TCH	WTC World Team Cup	1991	Barcelona	ESP				5
TCH	WTC World Team Cup	1990	Hokkaido, Aomori, Niig	JPN				5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Medal table of Slovak table tennis players at national championships up to 2000 (accessed on May 21, 2014)
2. ↑ Youth European Championships (accessed on January 7, 2016)
3. ↑ NOETTV Tischtennis-Magazin 1993/3 page 15 (accessed on February 14, 2016)
4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/6 page 31
5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/7 page 12
6. ↑ Renata Kasalová Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on May 18, 2014)

Web links

• Portrait (Slovak) (accessed May 18, 2014)
• Renata Kasalová in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ) (accessed on May 18, 2014)