Sandra Paović
Sandra Paović (born April 15, 1983 in Vukovar ) is a Croatian table tennis player . By 2008 she took part in eight world championships and the 2008 Olympic Games . In an accident in early 2009, she suffered life-threatening injuries. After her recovery, she fought her way up in disabled sports and won the gold medal at the Para-table Tennis World Championships in 2014 and the gold medal at the Paralympic Summer Games in 2016 .
Career among the non-disabled
Sandra Paović achieved her first international successes in youth tournaments. In 1997 she became European Youth Champion in singles, mixed with Jiří Vráblík and with the Croatian team. In 1999 she also won the team competition. In 2000 she reached the final in singles (which she lost to Cornelia Vaida ) and won doubles with Nikoleta Stefanova .
For adults, she took part in eight world championships from 1999 to 2008 , but never came close to medal ranks. She was more successful at the European Championships , for which she was nominated four times from 2000 to 2008. In 2000 she reached the semi-finals of the mixed competition with Roko Tošić, in 2003 and 2005 she won silver with the team.
In 2008, Sandra Paović qualified for participation in the Olympic Games , where she competed in individual and team competitions. In the individual, she survived the first round by beating Australian Jian-Fang Lay , but then failed against Spaniard Shen Yanfei . With the team she came in ninth.
At times played in the German Bundesliga . In the 2004/05 season she was with the Homburg TS champion in the 2nd Bundesliga South. From 2005 to 2007 she competed at TTK Anröchte , then at TV Busenbach and later at the French club USO Mondeville.
Career among the disabled
In 2009 her career was involuntarily interrupted. In a car accident in Paris on January 20, she suffered life-threatening injuries to her spine and her legs were only able to move to a limited extent. After a long rehabilitation phase, which was partly financed by donations from table tennis colleagues, she fought her way back to top performance in table tennis, but had to compete in competitions for the disabled, namely in competition class 6, where the physically disabled play standing.
In March 2013 she won the singles at the Hungarian Para Table Tennis Open . In the same year she became European Champion in Lignano (Italy). In September 2014 she became world champion in Beijing in singles. In 2016 she won gold at the Paralympics in Rio by beating Stephanie Grebe in the final .
Private
Sandra Paović began studying sports management in Zagreb in 2010, which she completed in 2016. Since 2014 she has been married to Daniel Lazov, who plays table tennis with paraplegia and has set himself the Paralympics 2020 as his goal.
Results from the ITTF database
| Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HRV | European Championship | 2008 | St. Petersburg | RUS | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| HRV | European Championship | 2005 | Aarhus | THE | 2 | |||
| HRV | European Championship | 2003 | Courmayeur | ITA | 2 | |||
| HRV | European Championship | 2000 | Bremen | GER | Semifinals | |||
| HRV | European Youth Championship (Cadets) | 1997 | Topolcany | SVK | gold | gold | 1 | |
| HRV | European Youth Championship (Juniors) | 2000 | Bratislava | SVK | silver | gold | ||
| HRV | European Youth Championship (Juniors) | 1999 | Frydek-Mistek | CZE | 1 | |||
| HRV | Olympic games | 2008 | Beijing | CHN | last 64 | 9 | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2009 | Frederikshavn | THE | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2009 | Velenje | SVN | last 64 | Quarter finals | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2008 | Berlin | GER | last 32 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2008 | Salzburg | AUT | last 16 | 5 | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2008 | Singapore | SIN | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2008 | Velenje | SVN | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2007 | Stockholm | SWE | last 64 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2007 | Bremen | GER | last 64 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2007 | Toulouse | FRA | last 64 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2007 | catfish | AUT | last 64 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2007 | Shenzhen | CHN | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2007 | Taipei | TPE | last 32 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2007 | Chiba | JPN | last 32 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2007 | Seongnam | COR | last 64 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2007 | Santiago | CHI | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2007 | Belo Horizonte | BRA | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2007 | Doha | QAT | last 16 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2007 | Velenje | SVN | last 32 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2007 | Zagreb | HRV | last 64 | last 16 | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2006 | Warsaw | POLE | Quarter finals | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2006 | Bayreuth | GER | last 16 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2006 | St. Petersburg | RUS | last 64 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2006 | Belgrade | SRB | last 64 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2006 | Santiago | CHI | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2006 | Sao Paulo | BRA | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2006 | Kuwait City | KUW | last 16 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2006 | Doha | QAT | last 16 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2006 | Zagreb | HRV | last 64 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2006 | Velenje | SVN | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2005 | Gothenburg | SWE | last 64 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2005 | Rio de Janeiro | BRA | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2005 | Zagreb | HRV | last 64 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2005 | Velenje | SLO | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2004 | catfish | AUT | last 64 | Semifinals | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2004 | Leipzig | GER | last 64 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2004 | Warsaw | POLE | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2003 | Croatia | HRV | last 64 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2002 | Eindhoven | NED | last 64 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2002 | Magdeburg | GER | last 64 | last 16 | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2002 | Courmayeur | ITA | last 64 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2002 | Cairo | EGY | last 32 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2001 | Rotterdam | NED | last 64 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2001 | Zagreb | HRV | last 64 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 2000 | Zagreb | HRV | Rd 1 | last 16 | ||
| HRV | Pro tour | 1999 | Zagreb | HRV | Rd 1 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 1998 | Sundsvall | SWE | Rd 1 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 1998 | Zagreb | HRV | Rd 1 | |||
| HRV | Pro tour | 1997 | Gdańsk | POLE | Rd 1 | Rd 1 | ||
| HRV | World Championship | 2008 | Guangzhou | CHN | 10 | |||
| HRV | World Championship | 2007 | Zagreb | CRO | last 64 | last 32 | no participants | |
| HRV | World Championship | 2006 | Bremen | GER | 10 | |||
| HRV | World Championship | 2005 | Shanghai | CHN | last 128 | last 32 | ||
| HRV | World Championship | 2003 | Paris | FRA | last 128 | last 32 | Agony | |
| HRV | World Championship | 2001 | Osaka | JPN | last 128 | last 32 | last 128 | 11 |
| HRV | World Championship | 2000 | Kuala Lumpur | MAS | 13-16 | |||
| HRV | World Championship | 1999 | Eindhoven | NED | no participants | no participants | no participants |
Web links
- Sandra Paović in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ) (accessed on July 23, 2016)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Table tennis archive of Hans-Albert Meyer: 2nd BL 2004/05 (accessed on July 23, 2016)
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2007/9 page 23
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2009/3 page 6
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2010/4 page 7
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2013/4 page 7
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2013/11 page 7
- ↑ No. 15th Croatia's Sandra Paovic wins the Para-table Tennis World Championships , article from December 17, 2014 (accessed July 23, 2016)
- ↑ Sandra Paović Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on July 23, 2016)
literature
- Susanne Heuing: A Second Life , tischtennis magazine , 2016/10 pages 24–25
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Paović, Sandra |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Croatian table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vukovar |