Skylet Andrew

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Skylet Andrew (born March 31, 1962 in Upton Park London ) is an English table tennis player who was active in the 1980s and 1990s. In English championships he won 14 titles, with the English team he became vice European champion in 1988.

Career

Skylet Andrew's father was a bus driver and his mother worked in a large bakery.

At the national English championships he was successful a total of 14 times in doubles and mixed competitions:

  • Doubles: 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994 with Nicky Mason
  • Mixed: 1984 with Carol Moore, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992 with Fiona Elliott, 1993, 1994 with Fiona Mommessin

In the singles he won no title.

From 1985 to 1991, Skylet Andrew was nominated four times for participation in world championships . He never came close to medal ranks. In 1988 he reached the final at the European Championship with the English team, which was lost to Sweden.

In the same year he qualified for the Summer Olympics , where he was eliminated in doubles with Desmond Douglas in the opening act. He was more successful in the following years at the Commonwealth Championships. Here he won gold in 1989, 1991 and 1994 with the English team and in 1989 in doubles with Nicky Mason. In 1989 he won silver with Fiona Elliott in mixed, as well as in 1991 with Mason in doubles. In 1991 he reached the semi-finals.

After the European Championship in 1994 he ended his career as a table tennis player. He then worked as a football agent.

In 1997 he joined the German regional league club TTG Weitmar-Munscheid .

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
CLOSELY Commonwealth Championship 1994 Hyderabad IND 1
CLOSELY Commonwealth Championship 1991 Nairobi KEN Semifinals silver 1
CLOSELY Commonwealth Championship 1989 Cardiff WHALE gold silver 1
CLOSELY European Championship 1988 Paris FRA 2
GBR Olympic games 1988 Seoul COR no participants immediately excluded
CLOSELY World Championship 1991 Chiba City JPN last 64 Agony last 128
CLOSELY World Championship 1989 Dortmund FRG last 64 last 32 last 64 9
CLOSELY World Championship 1987 New Delhi IND last 128 Agony last 64 12
CLOSELY World Championship 1985 Gothenburg SWE Agony last 64 no participants 10

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ EM 1994 - last page ( memento of October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 20, 2016)
  2. ↑ Interview with Andrew Skylet on 10 January 2002 (Engl.) ( Memento of 26 October 2008 at the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 4, 2016)
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1997/8 regional West, page 4
  4. ↑ Skylet Andrew results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 2, 2011)

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personal data
SURNAME Andrew, Skylet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andrew, Sky
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Upton Park London