Tibor Klampár

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Tibor Klampár [ ˈtibor ˈklɒmpaːr ] (born April 30, 1953 ) is a former Hungarian table tennis player . In the 1970s he was one of the best players in the world. He is a two-time world champion. In table tennis circles, Klampár is generally regarded as the inventor of the special technique of speed gluing .

National successes

Between 1969 and 1985 Klampár was Hungarian champion 25 times, namely 9 times in singles, 11 times in doubles and 5 times in mixed. During this time he played for the Spartacus Budapest club .

International success

In 1966 Klampár was European Schoolchildren Champion. At world championships he won gold medals twice, in doubles with István Jónyer in 1971 and with the Hungarian team in 1979 . With Jónyer he was vice world champion in doubles in 1973 and 1979, and in 1981 he won silver with the team.

In 1978 and 1982 he was European team champion with Hungary, in 1974 with Jónyer European champion in doubles. In 1981 he won the Europe TOP-12 tournament .

Because of repeated undisciplined behavior, Klampar was temporarily banned several times:

  • In 1974 he was expelled from the Hungarian national team.
  • When he left his team illegally in Germany in 1982, he was banned from his club Spartacus Budapest for six months (this ban was later reduced to three months).

End of the career

From the mid-1980s Klampár played with various Austrian clubs in the State League A: 1985 to 1988 with UTTC Römerquelle Langenlois, 1988 to 1998 with Union Wolkersdorf and 1999 (source: Kleine Zeitung Kärnten of September 12, 1999, page 50, middle, box with the title "Lavamünd got point") and 2001 at Lavamünd. In 1988 he surprised with a comeback when he finished fourth in the individual at the Olympic Games .

Private

Klampár has a brother (József), he is married. He has a son named Tibor and a daughter Ildiko. His nephew Andras Podpinka is a strong Belgian international.

In 2005 his son competed in the German Bayern League with Bad Höhenstadt.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
HUN  European Championship  1986  Prague  TCH   last 16       
HUN  European Championship  1984  Moscow  URS   Quarter finals       
HUN  European Championship  1982  Budapest  HUN   Semifinals      1
HUN  European Championship  1980  Bern  SUI   last 16  Semifinals  Quarter finals   
HUN  European Championship  1978  Duisburg  FRG   Quarter finals  Quarter finals  silver  1
HUN  European Championship  1974  Novi Sad  YUG   Quarter finals  gold    2
HUN  European Championship  1970  Moscow  URS   Quarter finals  Semifinals     
HUN  European Youth Championship (Cadets)  1966  Szombathely  HUN   gold       
HUN  European Youth Championship (Juniors)  1970  Teeside  CLOSELY   Semifinals  gold     
HUN  European Youth Championship (Juniors)  1968  Leningrad  URS   silver       
HUN  EURO TOP12  1987  Basel  SUI   8th       
HUN  EURO TOP12  1986  Sodertalje  SWE   9       
HUN  EURO TOP12  1981  Miskolc  HUN   1      
HUN  EURO TOP12  1974  Trollhatten  SWE   4th       
HUN  EURO TOP12  1973  Boeblingen  FRG   8th       
HUN  EURO TOP12  1972  Zagreb  YUG   6th       
HUN  Olympic games  1988  Seoul  COR   4th  immediately excluded     
HUN  World Championship  1989  Dortmund  FRG   Quarter finals  last 16  no participants  10 
HUN  World Championship  1987  New Delhi  IND   last 64  last 64  no participants  10 
HUN  World Championship  1985  Gothenburg  SWE   last 64  Quarter finals  no participants  13 
HUN  World Championship  1981  Novi Sad  YUG   Quarter finals  last 16  Scratched  2
HUN  World Championship  1979  Pyongyang  PRK   last 16  silver  last 64  1
HUN  World Championship  1977  Birmingham  CLOSELY   Quarter finals  last 16  last 64  4th 
HUN  World Championship  1973  Sarajevo  YUG   last 64  silver  last 32  7th 
HUN  World Championship  1971  Nagoya  JPN   Quarter finals  gold  last 32  5 
HUN  World Championship  1969  Munich  FRG   last 128  last 32  last 32  9 
HUN  World cup  1987  Macau  CHN   12       
HUN  World cup  1981  Kuala Lumpur  MAS   gold       
HUN  World cup  1980  Hong Kong  HKG   7th       

literature

  • Mihály Kozák: The enfant terrible experienced its third spring in Seoul: Tibor Klampár , DTS magazine , 1989/1 pp. 36–38
  • Mihály Kozák: Tibor Klampár would like to "prove" in Birmingham ... , DTS magazine , 1977/4 issue Süd-West pp. 20-21

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1974/19 p. 21
  2. ↑ Exchange exchange 2006/07 ( Memento of the original of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tt-siegenburg.de
  3. ↑ Tibor Klampár results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 10, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Klampár, Tibor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1953