European table tennis championship 1990

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The 17th European Table Tennis Championships took place from April 8th to 16th, 1990 in Gothenburg (Sweden). The venue was the Scandinavium multifunctional hall .

Sweden won the men's team competition, Mikael Appelgren defended his title in singles, which he won for the first time in 1982 . Hungary also won two titles, namely with the women's team and the women's doubles and defending champions Csilla Bátorfi / Gabriella Wirth . The European champion in the individual was the Bulgarian Daniela Gergeltschewa , the men's doubles went to the Yugoslavs Ilija Lupulesku / Zoran Primorac . In mixed, the French pairing Jean-Philippe Gatien / Wang Xiaoming won .

For the first time since 1972, the GDR took part in a European championship. The men's team of the Federal Republic came second, as did the pair Jörg Roßkopf / Steffen Fetzner . Roßkopf reached the semi-finals again in the individual.

Competition mode teams

There were 30 men's and 28 women's teams.

It was played in the same mode as in the previous EM 1988 . Since a lot of men's teams took part this time, they played in three (instead of two) performance categories, category 1 and the lower categories 2 and 3, whereby the classification was based on the promotion and relegation of the previous European championship in 1986 . In each of the higher 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 Category 3
space Group A Group B Group A Group B
1. Germany Sweden Belgium Italy Luxembourg
2. England Yugoslavia Denmark Turkey GDR
3. USSR France Finland Romania Greece
4th Netherlands Hungary Spain Norway Portugal
5. Poland ČSSR Switzerland Ireland Isle of Man
6th Bulgaria Austria Wales Scotland Malta
Final result of the group games women
Category 1 Category 2
space Group A Group B Group A Group B
1. Hungary ČSSR Bulgaria Belgium
2. Netherlands Yugoslavia Austria Denmark
3. France Germany Luxembourg Greece
4th USSR Romania Finland Spain
5. Sweden England Norway Switzerland
6th Poland Italy GDR Turkey
7th Wales Isle of Man
8th. Scotland Malta
  1. ↑ a b Malta did not run
Ascent
  1. ↑ a b c d e f climbers
descent
  1. ↑ a b c d e f relegated
Placement games 1 - 4
Men's Ladies
Semifinals Germany - Yugoslavia
Sweden - England 		5: 0
5: 1 		Hungary - Yugoslavia
ČSSR - Netherlands 		3: 1
3: 0
Endgame Sweden - Germany 5: 2 Hungary - ČSSR 3-0
3rd place match England - Yugoslavia 5: 1 Yugoslavia - Netherlands 3: 1

Cutting off the Germans

Eva Jeler was the head coach . The Yugoslav Zlatko Cordas looked after the men, Istvan Korpa trained the women.

The GDR was trained by Günter Spott, and Christer Johansson was available as a trainer.

Men's team Federal Republic of Germany

The German team remained in the 1st category in Group A without defeat. She defeated Bulgaria, the USSR, the Netherlands, England and Poland. In the second round for places 1 to 4 she won against Yugoslavia 5-0, the final against Sweden was lost 2-5. Thus the German team won silver.

The best German player was Georg Böhm , who, like Jörg Roßkopf, only lost one game before reaching the final .

GDR men's team

The GDR team was placed in the lowest category 3. The victories over Greece, Portugal, Malta (without a fight) and Isle of Man were only compared to the 1: 5 defeat against Luxembourg. The second place entitled to promotion in category 2 for the EM 1992, but turned out to be meaningless in retrospect because of the reunification.

Women's team Federal Republic of Germany

The German women were divided into group B of the 1st category and reached third place. They won against Romania, England and Italy, but lost against the ČSSR and Yugoslavia. Thus they finished third and played for places 5 to 8. Here they lost against both the USSR and France with 1: 3 each and ended up in 8th place.

Women's team GDR

The GDR women came in Category 2 Group B after victories over Scotland (3: 2) and Wales (3: 0) as well as 0: 3 defeats against Bulgaria, Finland, Norway, Austria and Luxembourg in 6th place.

Men's singles Federal Republic of Germany

GDR men's singles

Women's singles Federal Republic of Germany

Women's singles DDR

Men's doubles Federal Republic of Germany

GDR men's doubles

Ladies doubles Federal Republic of Germany

Ladies double GDR

Mixed Federal Republic of Germany

Mixed DDR

useful information

  • The Hungarian Csilla Bátorfi received the fair play prize because she had admitted edge balls several times to her disadvantage that the referees had not noticed.
  • The German doubles Georg Böhm / Peter Franz corrected a referee decision in the fight against Roberto Cesares / Jose Maria Pales Pon (Spain): When the score was 20:17 in the decision set, the referee counted the next point as a victory point, but Böhm / Franz pointed out that that the ball still touched the edge. As a result, they lost this double and were eliminated.
  • The German Susanne Wenzel played - as in the European Championship in 1988 - for Luxembourg.
  • As the most successful athletes in the team competitions, Jean-Philippe Gatien and Csilla Bátorfi were awarded the JOOLA Trophy and received 5,000 DM.
  • The referees Egon Geese (Oldenburg) and Theo Sattler (Essen) were represented from Germany. A total of 190 referees were on duty.

ETTU Congress

The ETTU Congress met parallel to the competitions . This time the ETTU constitution was changed so that countries that do not have a common border with Europe can also be included in the ETTU. As a result, Israel became a new ETTU member. A new game mode was decided for the Europa League . In order to shorten the playing time, the next European youth championships in July 1990 will test the sets at 5: 5, at the international championships of Yugoslavia in November 1990 the sets will start at 10:10, with the right to serve changing after each point.

Results

competition rank winner
Team men 1. Sweden ( Jan-Ove Waldner , Jörgen Persson , Mikael Appelgren , Erik Lindh , Peter Karlsson )
2. Germany ( Jörg Roßkopf , Steffen Fetzner , Georg Böhm , Torben Wosik , Peter Franz )
3. England ( Desmond Douglas , Carl Prean , Alan Cooke )
4th Yugoslavia ( Zoran Primorac , Zoran Kalinić , Ilija Lupulesku , Slobodan Grujić )
9. Austria ( Ding Yi , Dietmar Palmi , Qianli Qian , Werner Schlager , Peter Eckel )
22nd Switzerland ( Stefan Renold , Thierry Miller , Tu Thien Si, Martin Singer)
26th GDR ( Andreas Mühlfeld , Uwe Lindenlaub , Matthias Haustein , Bernd Buschmann )
Team women 1. Hungary ( Csilla Bátorfi , Gabriella Wirth , Edit Urbán )
2. ČSSR ( Marie Hrachová , Renata Kasalová , Alena Šafářová )
3. Yugoslavia ( Jasna Fazlić , Gordana Perkučin )
4th Netherlands ( Mirjam Hooman , Bettine Vriesekoop )
8th. Germany ( Olga Nemes , Nicole Struse , Katja Nolten )
16. Austria ( Elisabeth Maier , Petra Fichtinger , Vera Kottek )
22nd Switzerland (Pascale Rommerskirchen, Heidrun Woltjen )
23. GDR ( Anke Heinig , Conny Reichert , Janine Dietrich )
Men's singles 1. Mikael Appelgren (SWE)
2. Andrzej Grubba (POL)
3rd to 4th Jean-Philippe Gatien (FRA)
3rd to 4th Jörg Roßkopf (GER)
Ladies singles 1. Daniela Gergeltschewa (BUL)
2. Tu Dai Yong (SUI)
3rd to 4th Gabriella Wirth (HUN)
3rd to 4th Otilia Bădescu (ROM)
Men's doubles 1. Ilija Lupulesku / Zoran Primorac (YUG)
2. Jörg Roßkopf / Steffen Fetzner (GER)
3rd to 4th Peter Karlsson / Thomas von Scheele (SWE)
3rd to 4th Andrei Masunow / Dmitri Masunow (USSR)
Ladies doubles 1. Csilla Bátorfi / Gabriella Wirth (HUN)
2. Irina Palina / Jelena Timina (USSR)
3rd to 4th Galina Melnik / Valentina Popová (USSR)
3rd to 4th Emmanuelle Coubat / Wang Xiaoming (FRA)
Mixed 1. Jean-Philippe Gatien / Wang Xiaoming (FRA)
2. Jean-Michel Saive / Gabriella Wirth (BEL / HUN)
3rd to 4th Steffen Fetzner / Olga Nemes (GER)
3rd to 4th Ding Yi / Daniela Gergeltschewa (AUT / BUL)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e magazine DTS , 1988/4 page 10
  2. ↑ a b DTS magazine , 1990/5 page 10
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1990/5 page 26
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1990/5, page 22
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1990/5, page 32

literature

  • Detailed report in the DTS magazine DTS , 1990/5, pages 4–31

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