Stellan Bengtsson

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Stellan Bengtsson (1972)

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 :

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

Participation in European championships

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
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

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1984/5, page 23
  2. ↑ a b c DTS magazine , 1987/1 page 16
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1984/5 page 28
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1985/9 page 17
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1987/6 page 13
  6. ↑ a b magazine tischtennis , 2006/4 p. 7
  7. ↑ SCI-News No. 95, September 2013, page 26 (accessed on June 2, 2015)
  8. ↑ Stellan Bengtsson Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 4, 2011)
personal data
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