Skylet Andrew
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 |
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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
- ↑ EM 1994 - last page ( memento of October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 20, 2016)
- ↑ Interview with Andrew Skylet on 10 January 2002 (Engl.) ( Memento of 26 October 2008 at the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 4, 2016)
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1997/8 regional West, page 4
- ↑ Skylet Andrew results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 2, 2011)
Web links
- Skylet Andrew's homepage (accessed September 2, 2011)
- Skylet Andrew in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Paul Smith: Football: SOL REACHED FOR SKY AND STRUCK GOLD; Former table tennis , Sunday Mirror, July 1, 2001 (accessed September 2, 2011)
personal data | |
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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 |