European table tennis championship in 1988

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The 16th European table tennis championship took place from March 19th to 27th, 1988 in Paris . The game was played in the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy sports arena .

The men dominated Sweden, which won the team competition and won further titles with Mikael Appelgren in singles and Mikael Appelgren / Jan-Ove Waldner in doubles. There are also bronze medals in singles and doubles. Fliura Bulatowa from the USSR was European champion in singles , after finishing second, as in the last two European championships. The women of the USSR also won the team competition. The gold medal in women's doubles went to Hungary with Csilla Bátorfi / Edit Urbán , in mixed the Yugoslav couple Ilija Lupulesku / Jasna Fazlić won .

The most successful German was Jörg Roßkopf , he reached the semi-finals in the individual. Olga Nemes made it to the quarterfinals in singles and doubles with Katja Nolten and Jörg Roßkopf / Steffen Fetzner in men's doubles.

Competition mode teams

There were 24 men's and 26 women's teams.

It was played in the same mode as in the previous EM 1986 . The teams played in two performance categories, Category 1 and the lower Category 2, with the classification taking into account the promoted and relegated teams from the previous 1986 European Championship . In each of the two categories, two groups with at least six teams played in the mode 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. A team fight was carried out according to the Swaythling Cup system for teams of three .

The first two of category 2 will fight for places 13 to 16. Places 13 and 14 entitle them to advance to the higher category 1 at the next European championship. Similarly, the penultimate and last from category 1 determine the relegated: They play places 9 to 12, with the eleventh and twelfth playing in category 2 at the next European Championship.

A similar system with two categories was provided for the women, who each consisted of teams of two and played according to the Swaythling Cup system , i.e. with four singles and one doubles.

Final result of the group games men
Category 1 Category 2
space Group A Group B Group A Group B
1. Sweden England Austria Finland
2. USSR Hungary Netherlands Turkey
3. Poland Yugoslavia Italy Denmark
4th Germany ČSSR Switzerland Norway
5. Belgium France Greece Scotland
6th Romania Bulgaria Luxembourg Wales
Final result of the group games women
Category 1 Category 2
space Group A Group B Group A Group B
1. USSR ČSSR Sweden Italy
2. Yugoslavia Netherlands Belgium Finland
3. Germany Hungary Norway Spain
4th England France Austria Switzerland
5. Romania Poland Greece Scotland
6th Denmark Bulgaria Portugal Turkey
7th Wales Malta
Ascent
  1. ↑ a b c d Newcomers in category 1, as 13th or 14th place in the placement games
descent
  1. ↑ a b c d Relegated from category 1 to category 2, as eleventh or twelfth in the placement games.
Placement games 1 - 4
Men's Ladies
Semifinals Sweden - Hungary
England - USSR 		5: 1
5: 4 		ČSSR - Yugoslavia
USSR - Netherlands 		3: 1
3: 1
Endgame Sweden - England 5: 3 USSR - ČSSR 3: 1
3rd place match USSR - Hungary 5: 2 Netherlands - Yugoslavia 3: 1

Cutting off the Germans

The head coach of the German delegation was the French Charles Roesch . Istvan Korpa trained the women.

Men's team

The German team started in the 1st category in Group A. After three defeats (USSR, Poland, Sweden) and two wins (Romania, Belgium) they reached fourth place. So it was in the intermediate round for places 5 to 8. Here she won against Yugoslavia 5: 2, but then lost to the ČSSR with 2: 5 and came in sixth.

Women's team

The German women were also assigned to group A of the 1st category and reached third place. They won against Romania, England and Denmark, but lost against the USSR and Yugoslavia. So they finished third and played for places 5 to 8. Here they defeated France and Hungary 3-1 each, which meant fifth place.

Men's singles

Ladies singles

Men's doubles

Ladies doubles

Mixed

useful information

ETTU Congress

The ETTU Congress met parallel to the competitions . In the presence of the representatives of 33 associations, the Romanian Ella Constantinescu was elected as the first woman to be the ETTU Vice President. Peter Stellwag became a member of the classification committee (he resigned in 1990). The application to include countries that do not have a common border with Europe into the ETTU was rejected. This application was motivated with the intention of integrating Israel into the ETTU.

Results

competition rank winner
Team men 1. Sweden ( Jan-Ove Waldner , Jörgen Persson , Erik Lindh , Mikael Appelgren , Ulf Bengtsson )
2. England ( Desmond Douglas , Carl Prean , Alan Cooke , Skylet Andrew )
3. USSR ( Dmitri Masunow , Andrei Masunow , Boris Rosenberg , Vladimir Dvorak, Evgeni Brainin)
4th Hungary ( Tibor Klampár , Zsolt Kriston, Zsolt Harczi, Miklos Somosi)
6th Germany ( Jörg Roßkopf , Ralf Wosik , Georg Böhm , Jürgen Rebel , Steffen Fetzner )
14th Austria ( Ding Yi , Stanislaw Fraczyk , Dietmar Palmi , Manfred Gsodam)
20th Switzerland ( Stefan Renold , Thierry Miller , Thomas Busin )
Team women 1. USSR ( Fliura Bulatowa , Elena Kowtun , Valentina Popová , Raisa Timofeeva )
2. ČSSR ( Marie Hrachová , Renata Kasalová , Alena Šafářová )
3. Netherlands ( Mirjam Kloppenburg , Bettine Vriesekoop )
4th Yugoslavia ( Jasna Fazlić , Gordana Perkučin )
5. Germany ( Olga Nemes , Katja Nolten , Jin-Sook Cords )
19th Austria ( Barbara Wiltsche , Gerlinde Kaul)
20th Switzerland ( Brigitte Hirzel , Monika Frey, Pascale Rommerskirchen)
Men's singles 1. Mikael Appelgren (SWE)
2. Andrei Masunow (USSR)
3rd to 4th Jan-Ove Waldner (SWE)
3rd to 4th Jörg Roßkopf (GER)
Ladies singles 1. Fliura Bulatowa (USSR)
2. Otilia Bădescu (ROM)
3rd to 4th Renata Kasalová (ČSSR)
3rd to 4th Valentina Popová (USSR)
Men's doubles 1. Jan-Ove Waldner / Mikael Appelgren (SWE)
2. Ilija Lupulesku / Zoran Primorac (YUG)
3rd to 4th Andrzej Grubba / Leszek Kucharski (POL)
3rd to 4th Jörgen Persson / Erik Lindh (SWE)
Ladies doubles 1. Csilla Bátorfi / Edit Urbán (HUN)
2. Fliura Bulatowa / Elena Kowtun (USSR)
3rd to 4th Maria Alboiu / Otilia Bădescu (ROM)
3rd to 4th Marie Hrachová / Renata Kasalová (ČSSR)
Mixed 1. Ilija Lupulesku / Jasna Fazlić (JUG)
2. Andrzej Grubba / Bettine Vriesekoop (POL / NED)
3rd to 4th Ulf Carlsson / Edit Urbán (SWE / HUN)
3rd to 4th Călin Creangă / Otilia Bădescu (ROM)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d DTS magazine , 1988/4 page 10
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1988/4 page 13
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1988/4 page 19
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1988/4 page 25
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1988/4 page 24
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1990/5, page 32

literature

  • Detailed report in the DTS magazine DTS , 1988/4 pages 4–27

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