Roy Evans (table tennis official)

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Roy Evans (born October 8, 1909 in Cardiff , Wales , † May 18, 1998 in Cardiff) was a table tennis player from Wales and president of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) for 20 years .

Table tennis player

Evans was one of the strongest table tennis players in Wales in the 1930s. He took part in the 1933 World Cup in Baden (Austria) and came in 10th with the Wales team.

ITTF President

When the first president of the ITTF, the Englishman Sir Ivor Montagu , resigned prematurely in March 1967, Roy Evans ran for this office. On April 13, 1967, he was elected at the ITTF Congress in Stockholm. He prevailed against the favored rival candidate Ake Eldh (Sweden) with 57:49 votes.

Before taking office, Evans served as the ITTF's honorary general secretary for 16 years. During his tenure, he successfully campaigned for table tennis to become an Olympic sport: In 1981 the International Olympic Committee IOC decided to allow table tennis from 1988.

In 1987 Evans was voted out of the ITTF Congress. Successor with 65:39 votes was the Japanese Ichiro Ogimura .

In 1972 he was accepted as an officer in the Order of the British Empire . In 1997 he was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame .

Private

Evans worked as an industrial clerk in the steel and iron industry. In 1933 he married Nancy Jackson , who for a long time served as Vice President of the ITTF and General Secretary of the European Table Tennis Union (ETTU).

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
WHALE World Championship 1953 Bucharest ROU Scratched last 64 no participants
WHALE World Championship 1951 Vienna AUT no participants Scratched last 32 13
WHALE World Championship 1950 Budapest HUN no participants last 32 no participants 11
WHALE World Championship 1949 Stockholm SWE no participants last 64 no participants 9?
WHALE World Championship 1948 Wembley CLOSELY Agony Scratched no participants
WHALE World Championship 1947 Paris FRA last 64 no participants no participants 13
WHALE World Championship 1938 Wembley CLOSELY last 128 last 64 last 64 15th

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine 1967/8 page 3 + 1998/6 page 19
  2. ^ Meetings in Stockholm , DTS magazine 1967/9 page 11
  3. ↑ ITTF President in the TT Museum (accessed December 1, 2019)
  4. ↑ The Table Tennis Collector 2007, Issue 46, page 21 Online (accessed December 1, 2019)
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1997/9 page 15
  6. ↑ ITTF statistics (accessed on September 5, 2011)

literature


personal data
SURNAME Evans, Roy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Welsh table tennis player and President of the International Table Tennis Federation
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Cardiff , Wales
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1998
Place of death Cardiff