Richard Yule

Richard Yule (* 1950 in Aberdeen ) is a Scottish table tennis player and trainer. In the 1970s and 1980s he took part in six world championships and seven European championships .

Career

Richard Yule began playing table tennis at the age of eight. He won 24 titles at the National Championships of Scotland, eight in singles (1971, 1972, 1975 to 1980), nine in doubles (1972, 1974, 1975 to 1978, 1980, 1981, 1985) and seven in mixed (1975 to 1980 , 1982).

From 1973 to 1985 he was nominated for six world championships and seven European championships , but never came close to medal ranks. He took part in the Commonwealth Championships six times , where he reached the semi-finals in 1973.

In the mid-1970s he played for the French club AS Messine Paris.

In 1985 Richard Yule ended his career as a competitive athlete. Then he worked as a trainer. First he was national coach in Scotland and Ireland, later he worked in Belgium. In 1995 he became CEO of the English Table Tennis Association ETTA .

Richard Yule was awarded the Harry Baxter Award in 1989 for his services to Scottish table tennis. The world association ITTF presented him with the ITTF Merit Award in 2013 .

Private

In 1971 Richard Yule began studying languages, first at the University of Edinburgh , then in Sorbonne in Paris.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
SCO	Commonwealth Championship	1973	Cardiff	WHALE	Semifinals
SCO	World Championship	1985	Gothenburg	SWE	last 128	Agony	no participants	33
SCO	World Championship	1983	Tokyo	JPN	last 128	Agony	Agony	25th
SCO	World Championship	1981	Novi Sad	YUG	last 128	last 64	Agony	33
SCO	World Championship	1979	Pyongyang	PRK	last 64	last 64	no participants	31
SCO	World Championship	1977	Birmingham	CLOSELY	last 128	last 64	last 64	28
SCO	World Championship	1973	Sarajevo	YUG	last 128	last 64	Agony	34

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yule receives ITTF Merit Award (accessed May 25, 2015)
2. ^ Richard Yule results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed May 25, 2015)

Web links

• Stewart McGowan: The History Of the Scottish Table Tennis Association (now Table Tennis Scotland) 1936 - 2011 , pages 23-24 (accessed May 25, 2015)
• Report by Milica Nikolic in SCI-News No. 95, September 2013, pages 20-21 (accessed on May 25, 2015)