Stellan Bengtsson
Stellan Bengtsson (born July 26, 1952 in Falkenberg , Sweden ) was one of the best table tennis players in the world in the 1970s and 1980s . He is world champion and European champion.
Differentiation of namesakes
There was a Swedish table tennis player named Stellan Bengtsson before. To distinguish it, it is called Stellan Bengtsson 1 in specialist circles , the world champion of this article is called Stellan Bengtsson 2 . Stellan Bengtsson 2 is not related to Stellan Bengtsson 1 or to the European Champion Ulf Bengtsson .
Career
Stellan Bengtsson turned pro in 1970 and trained in Japan for some time. He is left handed. In 1971 he became world champion in men's singles in Nagoya - the first European since 1953. In the final he beat the Japanese defending champion Shigeo Itoh . The victory was particularly valuable because for the first time since 1965 the top Chinese players took part in the TT World Championships. For this achievement he was honored with the Svenska Dagbladet gold medal. He subsequently confirmed the somewhat surprising success of 1971 with a large number of international titles. A total of 213 times he took part in international matches for the Swedish national team.
Bengtsson also played in the German Bundesliga for several years :
- 1980 - 1981: TTC Jülich (from the Swedish Falkenbergs BTK )
- 1981 - 1982: TTC Grünweiß Bad Hamm
- 1982 - 1983: ATSV Saarbrücken
- 1984 - 1985: TTC Altena
- 1985 - 1987: Falkenbergs BTK , also coach of the ATSV Saarbrücken
- 1987 - ????: ATSV Saarbrücken
In 1983 Bengtsson became German champions with the ATSV Saarbrücken team .
Material and style of play
Stellan Bengtsson practiced an extremely fast offensive spin game, even several meters behind the table he was still able to attack with aggressive topspin strokes. Like most Swedes, he played stigas (which were also sold under his name) with 2.5 mm Mark V rubbers. At the 1971 World Cup, he played with a 5-times glued limba / abachi combination (an all-round blade), later the so-called offensive blade (a combination of koto / American walnut and abachi) - and finally the legendary clipper blade (a 7-ply specially glued limba / abachi veneer).
Trainer
1986 Bengtsson was coach at ATSV Saarbrücken ; in the 1990s he trained CFC Hertha 06 Berlin . In 2006 he worked as a trainer in Qatar.
In 2006 the Swedish artist Martina Falkehag Finn created a bronze statue of the table tennis player worth 500,000 Swedish crowns. This statue is in the town hall of Falkenberg.
Private
Bengtsson is married to the former American table tennis player Angelita Rosal. He has a daughter Suco Li and twins Samuel and Christopher. Today he lives in San Diego .
successes
Participation in table tennis world championships
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1971 in Nagoya
- 1st place single
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1973 in Sarajevo
- 1st place with men's team
- 1st place doubles with Kjell Johansson
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1975 in Calcutta
- 3rd place with men's team
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1977 in Birmingham
- 3rd place doubles
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1981 in Novi Sad
- 3rd place single
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1983 in Tokyo
- 2nd place with men's team
Participation in European championships
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1970 in Moscow
- 1st place with men's team
- 3rd place single
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1972 in Rotterdam
- 1st place single
- 2nd place men's doubles (with Kjell Johansson )
- 1st place with men's team
- 2nd place mixed (with Lena Andersson )
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1974 in Novi Sad
- 2nd place men's doubles (with Kjell Johansson )
- 1st place with men's team
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1976 in Prague
- 1st place men's doubles (with Kjell Johansson )
- 1st place with men's team
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1980 in Bern
- 3rd place single
- 1st place with men's team
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1982 in Budapest
- 3rd place men's doubles (with Erik Lindh )
- 4th place with men's team
Participation in the European ranking tournament Top-12
- 1971 4th place - Zadar (CRO)
- 1972 2nd place - Zagreb
- 1973 1st place - Böblingen
- 1975 5th place - Vienna
- 1976 4th place - Lübeck
- 1978 3rd place - Prague
- 1979 11th place - Kristianstad (SWE)
- 1980 1st place - Munich
- 1981 2nd place - Miskolc (HUN)
- 1982 4th place - Nantes
Swedish championships in men's singles
- 1972 1st place
- 1973 1st place
- 1975 1st place
- 1977 1st place
- 1978 1st place
- 1979 1st place
- 1980 1st place
Results from the ITTF database
Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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SWE | European Championship | 1982 | Budapest | HUN | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
SWE | European Championship | 1980 | Bern | SUI | Semifinals | 1 | ||
SWE | European Championship | 1978 | Duisburg | FRG | last 16 | |||
SWE | European Championship | 1976 | Prague | TCH | last 16 | gold | 2 | |
SWE | European Championship | 1974 | Novi Sad | YUG | Quarter finals | silver | 1 | |
SWE | European Championship | 1972 | Rotterdam | NED | gold | silver | silver | 1 |
SWE | European Championship | 1970 | Moscow | URS | Semifinals | Quarter finals | 1 | |
SWE | European Championship | 1968 | Lyon | FRA | 1 | |||
SWE | European Youth Championship (Juniors) | 1970 | Teeside | CLOSELY | gold | gold | silver | |
SWE | European Youth Championship (Juniors) | 1968 | Leningrad | URS | Semifinals | |||
SWE | EURO TOP12 | 1983 | Cleveland | CLOSELY | Scratched | |||
SWE | EURO TOP12 | 1982 | Nantes | FRA | 4th | |||
SWE | EURO TOP12 | 1981 | Miskolc | HUN | 2 | |||
SWE | EURO TOP12 | 1980 | Munich | FRG | 1 | |||
SWE | EURO TOP12 | 1979 | Kristianstad | SWE | 11 | |||
SWE | EURO TOP12 | 1978 | Prague | TCH | 3 | |||
SWE | EURO TOP12 | 1976 | Lübeck | FRG | 3 | |||
SWE | EURO TOP12 | 1975 | Vienna | AUT | 5 | |||
SWE | EURO TOP12 | 1974 | Trollhatten | SWE | 3 | |||
SWE | EURO TOP12 | 1973 | Boeblingen | FRG | 1 | |||
SWE | EURO TOP12 | 1972 | Zagreb | YUG | 2 | |||
SWE | EURO TOP12 | 1971 | Zadar | YUG | 4th | |||
SWE | Nordic championships | 1967 | Helsinki | FIN | gold | silver | ||
SWE | World Championship | 1985 | Gothenburg | SWE | last 64 | last 32 | last 64 | |
SWE | World Championship | 1983 | Tokyo | JPN | last 32 | last 16 | no participants | 2 |
SWE | World Championship | 1981 | Novi Sad | YUG | Semifinals | Quarter finals | last 64 | 11 |
SWE | World Championship | 1979 | Pyongyang | PRK | last 64 | Scratched | scratched | 8th |
SWE | World Championship | 1977 | Birmingham | CLOSELY | Quarter finals | Semifinals | Scratched | 3 |
SWE | World Championship | 1975 | Calcutta | IND | last 16 | last 16 | no participants | 3 |
SWE | World Championship | 1973 | Sarajevo | YUG | last 64 | gold | no participants | 1 |
SWE | World Championship | 1971 | Nagoya | JPN | gold | last 32 | last 64 | 4th |
SWE | World Championship | 1969 | Munich | FRG | last 32 | Agony | Agony | |
SWE | World cup | 1980 | Hong Kong | HKG | 6th |
literature
- Erich Philippi: He's afraid of flying, DTS magazine , 1981/1 page 16
Individual evidence
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1984/5, page 23
- ↑ a b c DTS magazine , 1987/1 page 16
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1984/5 page 28
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1985/9 page 17
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1987/6 page 13
- ↑ a b magazine tischtennis , 2006/4 p. 7
- ↑ SCI-News No. 95, September 2013, page 26 (accessed on June 2, 2015)
- ↑ Stellan Bengtsson Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 4, 2011)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bengtsson, Stellan |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bengtsson, Stellan 2 |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish table tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1952 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Falkenberg , Sweden |