Segun Toriola

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Segun Toriola (born September 18, 1974 in Ilorin ) is a Nigerian table tennis player . To date (April 2018) he has participated in seven Olympic Games and 19 world championships .

Career

Segun Toriola still has eight brothers, he is the youngest. Guided by his father and a brother who also play table tennis, he started playing table tennis at the age of five.

Segun Toriola was the most successful table tennis player in Africa for many years. From 1995 to 2007 he won all four singles and doubles competitions at the African Games , a tournament that is played every four years. There are also two mixed titles and four wins with the Nigerian team. At the Commonwealth Games he won singles in 2002 and doubles in 2006 with Monday Merotohun.

From 1991 to 2015 he was nominated 17 times for world championships . Here, however, he never came close to medal ranks. He qualified six times to take part in the Olympic Games , the first time in 1992 in Barcelona and most recently in 2012 in London. Here, too, he always left early. Notable successes in 2008 were his victories against Jean-Michel Saive (Belgium) and João Monteiro (Portugal). Even with the 2016 Olympic Games , he is allowed to start. This makes him the only athlete from Africa to date (2016) who has been represented at the Olympics seven times.

Currently (2016) Segun Toriola plays with the French club Argentan Bayard in the second division. His best world ranking position is 56th in December 2008.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
NGR African Championship 2002 Bizerte TO DO gold silver gold 2
NGR African Championship 1998 Port Louis MRI gold Semifinals
NGR African Championship 1994 Cairo EGY silver gold 1
NGR African Championship 1992 Lagos NGR silver gold gold 1
NGR African Cup 2009 Rabat MAR 4th Place
NGR African Cup 2008 Brazzaville CGO 1st place
NGR African Cup 2002 Johannesburg RSA 3rd place
NGR African games 2011 Maputo MOZ 5th place Semifinals gold 2
NGR African games 2007 Algeria ALG gold gold 2
NGR African games 2003 Abuja NGR gold gold silver 1
NGR African games 1999 Johannesburg RSA gold gold gold 1
NGR African games 1995 Harare ZIM gold gold silver 1
NGR African games 1991 Cairo EGY Quarter finals Semifinals 1
NGR Commonwealth Championship 2001 New Delhi IND Semifinals 1
NGR Commonwealth Championship 1995 Singapore SIN silver
NGR Commonwealth Games 2006 Melbourne OUT 3rd place gold
NGR Commonwealth Games 2002 Manchester CLOSELY gold
NGR Olympic games 2016 Rio de Janeiro BRA last 48
NGR Olympic games 2012 London CLOSELY last 128
NGR Olympic games 2008 Beijing CHN last 32 9
NGR Olympic games 2004 Athens GRE last 64 last 64
NGR Olympic games 2000 Sydney OUT immediately excluded immediately excluded
NGR Olympic games 1996 Atlanta United States immediately excluded immediately excluded
NGR Olympic games 1992 Barcelona ESP no participants immediately excluded
NGR Pro tour 2014 Lagos NGR Quarter finals
NGR Pro tour 2010 Kuwait City KUW last 64 last 16
NGR Pro tour 2010 Doha QAT last 64
NGR Pro tour 2009 Bremen GER last 64
NGR Pro tour 2008 Berlin GER last 16
NGR Pro tour 2006 Bayreuth GER last 64
NGR Pro tour 2002 Eindhoven NED last 32
NGR Pro tour 2001 Rotterdam NED last 64
NGR Pro tour 2001 Chatham CLOSELY Rd 1
NGR Pro tour 1997 Lyon FRA last 16
NGR World Championship 2017 Dusseldorf GER last 128 last 32 last 64
NGR World Championship 2016 Kuala Lumpur MAS 29-32
NGR World Championship 2015 Suzhou CHN last 128 last 128
NGR World Championship 2014 Tokyo JPN 29
NGR World Championship 2012 Dortmund GER 32
NGR World Championship 2011 Rotterdam NED Agony Scratched Scratc.Main
NGR World Championship 2010 Moscow RUS 31
NGR World Championship 2009 Yokohama JPN last 128
NGR World Championship 2008 Guangzhou CHN 35
NGR World Championship 2007 Zagreb HRV last 64 last 64 last 128
NGR World Championship 2006 Bremen GER 38
NGR World Championship 2005 Shanghai CHN last 64 last 64 Scratched
NGR World Championship 2004 Doha QAT 27
NGR World Championship 2003 Paris FRA last 128 last 32 Agony
NGR World Championship 2001 Osaka JPN last 64 last 64 last 128 27
NGR World Championship 2000 Kuala Lumpur MAS 41
NGR World Championship 1999 Eindhoven NED last 128 last 128 last 64
NGR World Championship 1995 Tianjin CHN Agony Agony Agony 28
NGR World Championship 1991 Chiba City JPN Agony last 32 last 128 23
NGR World cup 2008 Liege BEL 9-12 space
NGR World cup 2002 Jinan CHN 13-16 space
NGR World cup 1999 Xiaolan CHN 13-16 space
NGR World cup 1996 Nimes FRA 13-16 space
NGR WTC World Team Cup 1994 Nimes FRA 13
NGR WTC World Team Cup 1991 Barcelona ESP 13

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b OLYMPIA: Africa's legend Segun Toriola qualified for the seventh time! (accessed on August 3, 2016)
  2. ↑ Segun Toriola results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on August 3, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Toriola, Segun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Toriola, Segun Moses
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilorin