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The TTV Gönnern is a table tennis club from Gönnern , a district of Angelburg in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse .
history
The club was founded on November 23, 1966 as a gymnastics club Gönnern . A year later, a table tennis team took part in the game for the first time. After numerous promotions from the district class to the 2nd Bundesliga - in between (from 1991) under the name TV Müller Gönnern and with the Czech national player Miroslav Cecava - he was promoted to the Bundesliga in 1996 . From 1997 the association was known as TTV RE-BAU Gönnern. It was named after the main sponsor, RE-BAU GmbH in Gönnern. Since the sponsorship contract could not be extended, the club has been calling itself TTV Gönnern again since the beginning of the 2006/07 season. The team celebrated their greatest successes in 2005 and 2006 when they won the Champions League .
In 2009 the club withdrew from professional sports for financial reasons. Eligible to play for the Bundesliga was on the club TG Hanau transferred , whereas most professional players move. The first team then played in the Hessenliga, currently (2017/18 season) they are active in the 2nd district class.
Player and coach
In the 2006/07 season, the two well-known German table tennis players Timo Boll , who came to Gönnern in 1995 at the age of 14 and left the club for the 2007/08 season for Düsseldorf, and the record national player Jörg Roßkopf (2000 to 2007) played for TTV Gönnern. In addition, were Slobodan Grujic , Wu Chih-Chi of Taiwan , Steffen Mengel and Antonin Gavlas the TTV active.
Head coach in Gönnern was Helmut Hampl, the assistant coaches were Gao Xiaojun and René Stork.
Greatest successes
- Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga in 1993
- Promotion to the Bundesliga in 1996
- DTTB Cup Winner 1997/98: 4: 3 final victory against TTC Frickenhausen in the line-up Xu Zengcai , Danny Heister , Timo Boll , Slobodan Grujic
- ETTU Cup semi-finals 1997/98
- DTTB Cup winners 2001/02: 3-0 win against Borussia Düsseldorf in the line-up of Danny Heister , Timo Boll and Slobodan Grujić
- German runner-up in 2001 and 2002
- Champions League winners 2004/05, 2005/06: each final victory against Royal Villette Charleroi with Timo Boll , Jörg Roßkopf , Slobodan Grujić (substitute players: Patrick Baum )
Web links
Sources and individual references
- Jochen Schindler: Everything Müller - or what? , DTS magazine , 1992/11 regional / Südwest pp. 3–4
- ↑ Magazine DTS , 1992/9 regional / Southwest S. 2 - named after the construction company Müller-wishers GmbH. DTS magazine , 1995/11 p. 51
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1992/11 regional / Südwest p. 3
- ↑ http://httv.click-tt.de/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ClickSWTTV.woa/wa/groupPage?championship=HTTV+11%2F12&group=157012
- ↑ http://httv.click-tt.de/cgi-bin/WebObjects/nuLigaTTDE.woa/wa/clubTeams?club=806
- ↑ Journal DTS , 1998/1 pp. 4-6