Sarkis Azatowitsch Sarchajan

Sarkis Asatowitsch Sarchajan ( Russian Саркис Азатович Сархаян , also Саркис Азатович Сархоян ; born November 26, 1947 in Batumi ) is a Soviet table tennis player of Armenian origin. He had his best time in the 1970s, when he reached the final in mixed at a European and a world championship.

The world association ITTF prefers the spelling Sarkis Sarkhojan in its database .

Career

Sarchajan is left-handed. His first success was the nomination for the European Youth Championship in Prague in 1965, where he finished second behind Gegam Wardanjan in the singles and won the title with the Russian team. He also became a university world champion.

In the national Russian championships Sarchajan took part 21 times from 1963 to 1983. He became champion several times: in singles five times (1968, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1978), in doubles 12 times (four times with Gegam Wardanjan or Samwel Wardanjan , four times with Stanislaw Gomoskow , three times with A. Row, once with Bagrat Burnazjan ) and in mixed nine times (four times with Rita Pogosowa , five times with Elmira Antonyan )

From 1966 to 1978 he took part in seven European championships and five world championships . At the European Championships in 1966 and 1968 , he won silver with the Russian team. In 1970 he reached the mixed final with Rita Pogosova . He reached the semi-finals in 1974 in doubles with Stanislaw Gomoskow and in 1978 in mixed with Anita Zakharjan.

At the 1975 World Cup he and Elmira Antonyan lost the mixed final against Stanislaw Gomoskow / Tatjana Ferdman .

He achieved his best result in the European ranking tournament Europe TOP-12 in 1976 with fifth place. In the ITTF world rankings , he finished seventh in December 1973.

Private

Sarchajan initially lived in his hometown of Batumi. In the 1980s he worked as a trainer for female youth in Moscow. He has been employed in Italy since 1993.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
URS	European Championship	1978	Duisburg	FRG	Quarter finals		Semifinals
URS	European Championship	1976	Prague	TCH	last 16		Quarter finals
URS	European Championship	1974	Novi Sad	YUG	last 16	Semifinals	Quarter finals
URS	European Championship	1972	Rotterdam	NED		Quarter finals	Quarter finals
URS	European Championship	1970	Moscow	URS			silver
URS	European Championship	1968	Lyon	FRA	last 16	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	2
URS	European Championship	1966	London	CLOSELY				2
URS	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1965	Prague	TCH	silver			1
URS	EURO TOP12	1977	Sarajevo	YUG	7th
URS	EURO TOP12	1976	Lübeck	FRG	5
URS	EURO TOP12	1975	Vienna	AUT	9
URS	EURO TOP12	1974	Trollhatten	SWE	7th
URS	World Championship	1977	Birmingham	CLOSELY	last 32	last 64	Quarter finals	7th
URS	World Championship	1975	Calcutta	IND	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	silver	7th
URS	World Championship	1973	Sarajevo	YUG	Quarter finals	last 16	last 64	4th
URS	World Championship	1969	Munich	FRG	last 32	last 16	last 16	8th
URS	World Championship	1967	Stockholm	SWE	last 16	last 16	last 16	6th

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1966/9 p. 3
2. ^ Sarkis Asatowitsch Sarchajan Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 14, 2011)

swell

• Manfred Schäfer: Defenders preferred , DTS magazine , 1988/12 p. 18

Web links

• European Youth Championships (accessed January 7, 2016)
• Biography and Interview (Russian) (accessed September 2, 2010)