European table tennis championship 1976
The 10th European Table Tennis Championship took place in Prague from March 27th to April 4th, 1976 . The venue was the Fucic Park, where 26 of the 32 member countries competed. More than 70,000 spectators followed the competitions.
With Jacques Secrétin , a Frenchman won the European Championship for the first time. The Englishwoman Jill Hammersley won gold in singles and doubles. There were two bronze medals for Germany, one from Wiebke Hendriksen and one from Monika Kneip / Agnes Simon .
Competition mode teams
The teams played in two performance categories, Category 1 and the lower Category 2. In each of the two categories, two groups with usually at least six teams played in the mode of everyone against everyone. The two table first and second from category 1 played for places 1 to 4, the third and fourth for places 5 to 8 and the fifth and sixth for places 9 to 12. The two table first and second from category 2 played similarly around places 13 to 16, etc.
In the placement games for places 1 to 4, the first from Group A played against the second from Group B. The winners fought for the European Championship, the losers for 3rd and 4th places. The other places were played out in the same way.
Romania was previously assigned to Category 1 in Group A. Since Romania withdrew its team, this group started with only five teams.
The women's team matches were carried out according to the Corbillon Cup system : 2 singles, one doubles, 2 singles. The men played according to the Swaythling Cup system , i.e. a maximum of 9 singles and no doubles.
| Category 1 | Category 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| space | Group A | Group B | Group A | Group B |
| 1. | Sweden | Yugoslavia | Denmark | Netherlands |
| 2. | USSR | France | Greece | Italy |
| 3. | ČSSR | Hungary | Wales | Belgium |
| 4th | Germany | England | Finland | Spain |
| 5. | Bulgaria | Poland | Turkey | Ireland |
| 6th | Austria | Luxembourg | Norway | |
| 7th | Scotland | Switzerland | ||
| Category 1 | Category 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| space | Group A | Group B | Group A | Group B |
| 1. | England | ČSSR | France | Greece |
| 2. | USSR | Yugoslavia | Belgium | Switzerland |
| 3. | Romania | Hungary | Scotland | Denmark |
| 4th | Sweden | Germany | Austria | Spain |
| 5. | Netherlands | Luxembourg | Ireland | Norway |
| 6th | Poland | Bulgaria | Turkey | Italy |
| 7th | Finland | |||
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Cutting off the Germans
Christer Johansson was the coach in charge .
Men's team
Germany started in Category 1, Group A. Here the team won against Bulgaria 5: 0 and lost against the ČSSR with 5: 2, against Sweden with 5: 2, against the USSR with 5: 1. She finished 4th and then played for places 5 to 8.
Here she won Hungary 5-1. The subsequent game for 5th place was lost to the ČSSR 3: 5. Germany finished sixth.
Women's team
The German women were divided into group B of the 1st category. After victories over Luxembourg (3: 0), Bulgaria (3: 0) and the ČSSR (3: 1) as well as defeats against Hungary (3: 1) and Yugoslavia (3.1), they finished fourth. In the games for places 5 to 8 they lost against Romania and Hungary 3-1 each. That put them in 8th place.
Men's singles
Jochen Leiß got into the second round by bye. This was followed by victories over Istvan Asztalos (Hungary) and Jukka Ikonen (Finland). Inthe lastsixteen he met the Swede Stellan Bengtsson , over whom he had the upper hand in the decisive fifth set with 23:21. In the quarterfinals he was defeated by Anatoly Strokatow (USSR). In the team he played the most games and achieved a score of 9: 6.
Peter Engel defeated James Langan (Ireland) and retired afterwards made against Roger Lagerfeldt (Sweden). The result with the team was 3: 2.
For Wilfried Lieck came after his victory over Damir Jurcic (Yugoslavia) in round 2 of the corner. He lost 3-1 to Jacques Secrétin (France). With 5: 6 his team balance was negative.
Peter Stellwag reached after a bye and victories against Bagrat Burnazjan (USSR) and Zoran Kalinić (Yugoslavia) the second round, where he was defeated by the Swede Kjell Johansson . The team competition ended negatively with 1: 7.
Ralf Wosik got that far . After he had won against Camille Pütz (Luxembourg), Alan Griffiths (Wales) and Paolo Bargagli (Italy), he failed to Milan Orlowski (ČSSR).
Ladies singles
Wiebke Hendriksen won the bronze medal most successfully . She prevailed against Grefberg (Finland), Jana Dubinova (ČSSR), Yveline Lecler (France) and Elmira Antonyan (USSR). In the semifinals she was defeated by the Romanian Maria Alexandru in the time game . 3rd and 4th place was not played out. Hendriksen played a 7: 3 balance with the team.
Monika Kneip first had to win against Brigitte Gropper (Austria)in a qualifying round, only to beeliminated 2: 3 in the main round against Susanne Poulsen (Denmark).
Even Kirsten Kruger survived the qualifying round Eva Stromvall (Sweden). Then she lost to Henriette Lotaller (Hungary). She finished the team competition with a 1: 3 balance.
Ursula Hirschmüller defeated Pilar Lupon (Spain) and lost to Ann-Christin Hellman from Sweden in round 2. In the team competition she achieved a 3: 3 result.
The nomination of Agnes Simon was controversial in advance. At first, national coach Christer Johansson did not want to consider the then 40-year-old because he was planning with younger players in the long term. But Simon convinced with good performances, especially winning the national German championship. Therefore she was still registered for the individual competitions. In the qualifying round she won against Beatrice Luterbacher (Switzerland), then against the Austrian Dolores Fetter . In the second round she was defeated by the Englishwoman Jill Hammersley with 0: 3.
Men's doubles
Lieck / Stellwag were eliminated in the first round against England's Nicky Jarvis / Paul Day .
Leiß / Engel reachedthe quarter-finalswith victories over Bernard Chatton / Beck (Switzerland) and Schlüter / Rudolf Weinmann (Austria) as well as without a fight against Milivoj Karakašević / Zoran Kosanović (Yugoslavia), where they lost to Orlowski / Kunz (ČSSR).
The international doubles Wosik / Andrew Barden (GER / ENG) came two rounds ahead against Sana / Ramon Junyent (Spain) and James Langan / Thomas Caffrey (Ireland) before they were eliminated in the round of 16 against the Yugoslavs Šurbek / Stipančić .
Ladies doubles
The most successful double was Kneip / Simon with the bronze medal. It first had to play against Lidia Zaharia / Liana Mihuț (Romania) in the qualifying round. The 3-1 win was followed by wins against Emilia Neikova / Trendafilova (Bulgaria), Karen Senior / Anne Leonard (Ireland) and Eržebet Palatinuš / Dubravka Fabri (Yugoslavia). In the semifinals, the Germans lost 3-0 to the Alica Grofová / Jana Dubinová (ČSSR) doubles .
Hirschmüller / Kruger survived the first round against Pilar Lupon / Montserrat Sanahuja (Spain) and then lost to Miloslava Zizkova / Ludmila Smidova (CSSR).
The international double Hendriksen / Maria Alexandru (GER / ROM) was eliminated in the first round against the Russian Tatjana Ferdman / Elmira Antonyan .
Mixed
Five German couples competed in mixed doubles, three of them initially in the qualifying round.
Lieck / Hendriksen made it to the quarter-finals. They eliminated Mitev / Emilia Neikova (Bulgaria), Zbigniew Fraczyk / Przygoda (Poland) and Miroslav Schenk / Ludmila Smidova (ČSSR). Against Orlowski / Uhlíková (ČSSR) they had to admit defeat 2: 3.
Engel / Hirschmüller won against Jaromir Zlamal / Miloslava Ziskova (ČSSR), but then lost against Anatoli Strokatow / Tatjana Ferdman (USSR).
Leiß / Krüger were the only German couple to survive the qualifying round by defeating Rene Hatem / Yveline Lecler (France). In round 1 of the main round, however, was the final destination, as they were subject to the Yugoslavs Stipančić / Eržebet Palatinuš .
Stellwag / Simon failed against Jarvis / Hammersley and Wosik / Kneip against Jaromir Zlamal / Miloslava Ziskova (ČSSR) in the qualifying round .
German referee
The following four federal German referees were active at this EM:
- Hans Heckel (Nuremberg) - team leader of the referees
- Rüdiger Angst (Musberg near Stuttgart)
- Walter Egelhof (Graefenhausen-Weiterstadt)
- Dieter Kempf (Munich)
Referees were also represented from the GDR:
- Max Fromm (Magdeburg)
- Joachim Hengst (Dresden)
- Wolfgang Liebscher (Eisenhüttenstadt)
- Horst Schober (Zwickau)
useful information
- The Romanian Maria Alexandru was noticed by unsportsmanlike behavior. When she disagreed with a decision of the referee in the women's singles final, she stopped the game and left the box. Although the rules made such behavior a game task, the fight continued.
- The Russian Anatoli Strokatow also behaved unsportsmanlike when he illegally changed his jersey during the game.
- 140 referees from 11 countries were on duty.
- Up to 8 kg weight loss was measured in the active population.
- Around 30 former athletes with a world title were among the spectators. This meeting was organized by the Swaythling Club International .
Results
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- DTS magazine , 1976/7 pages 5–17 (DTS-7) + 1976/8 pages 5–24 (DTS-8)
Web links
- ITTF statistics
- All results ( memento of June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 431 kB) (accessed on January 16, 2016)