European table tennis championship 1992

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The 18th European table tennis championship took place from April 10th to 20th, 1992 in Stuttgart . The venue was the Schleyer Hall and the nearby Molly Schauffele Sports Hall.

Jörg Roßkopf became European champion in individual. It was the second German title win in the individual competition after Agnes Simon in 1962 . Sweden won the men's team competition for the fourth time in a row, Germany came third. Sweden also dominated the men's doubles and won gold ( Jörgen Persson / Erik Lindh ), silver and bronze. The women won the team from Romania, the European champion in the singles was Bettine Vriesekoop from the Netherlands , the doubles went to the Yugoslavs Jasna Fazlić / Gordana Perkučin .

The German women's team reached seventh place. The doubles Jörg Roßkopf / Steffen Fetzner , regarded as favorites, were eliminated in the quarterfinals.

A total of around 42,000 spectators attended the event.

Competition mode teams

There were 39 men's and 36 women's teams. Albania had reported, but did not compete.

It was played in almost the same mode as in the previous EM 1990 . Category 3 was omitted, but four groups started in the lower performance category 2. This time all groups were consistently designated with "A", "B", ... "F". The division of the teams into the categories was based on the category division of the previous European Championship, taking into account the promoted and relegated teams. The two groups from Category 1 consisted of six teams, the four groups from Category 2 consisted of six to seven teams. The game was played in the everyone against everyone mode. The two first and second in the table 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. Similarly, the four first in the table from Category 2 played for places 13 to 16, the four runners-up from category 2 around places 17 to 20, 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 held this time according to the modified Swaythling Cup system for teams of three , i.e. with a double.

The four group winners in category 2 fought for places 13 to 16. Places 13 and 14 entitled to promotion to the higher category 1 at the next European championship. Similarly, the penultimate and last from category 1 determined who was relegated: They played places 9 to 12, with the eleventh and twelfth having to compete 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 C Group D Group E Group F.
1. Sweden France Spain Poland Turkey Greece
2. England Germany Bulgaria Norway Slovenia Croatia
3. Austria Belgium Ireland Switzerland Finland Romania
4th Netherlands ČSSR Portugal Estonia Lithuania Italy
5. Hungary CIS Latvia Cyprus Luxembourg Israel
6th Denmark Yugoslavia Liechtenstein Iceland Scotland Wales
7th Albania Malta jersey guernsey
Final result of the group games women
Category 1 Category 2
space Group A Group B Group C Group D Group E Group F.
1. Romania CIS Italy Poland Croatia Slovenia
2. Netherlands Yugoslavia Lithuania Spain Denmark Austria
3. Germany ČSSR Greece Switzerland Finland Scotland
4th Hungary England Norway Ireland Latvia Luxembourg
5. Sweden France Israel Portugal Estonia Wales
6th Belgium Bulgaria Albania Cyprus Turkey Malta
7th Iceland
  1. ↑ a b Albania has not competed
Ascent
  1. ↑ a b c d climbers
descent
  1. ↑ a b c relegated
  2. ↑ a b Belgium is actually relegated. Since Yugoslavia will not compete in the next European Championship, Belgium will remain in category 1.
Placement games 1 - 4
Men's Ladies
Semifinals Sweden - Germany
England - France 		4: 1
4: 2 		Romania - Yugoslavia
Netherlands - CIS 		3: 2
3: 0
Endgame Sweden - England 4: 1 Romania - Netherlands 3: 1
3rd place match Germany - France 4: 1 CIS - Yugoslavia 3: 2

Cutting off the Germans

Eva Jeler was the head coach . The Yugoslav Zlatko Cordas looked after the men, Dirk Schimmelpfennig trained the women. The coaching team also included Klaus Schmittinger .

Only in the individual competitions did Christian Dreher , Hans-Jürgen Fischer , Sascha Köstner , Richard Prause , Torben Wosik , Nicole Delle , Cornelia Faltermaier , Christina Fischer and Christiane Praedel win .

Men's team

The German team suffered a 4-1 defeat against France in the 1st category in Group B. In contrast, there were victories over the ČSSR, Yugoslavia, CIS and Belgium. That was enough for second place. In the second round for places 1 to 4 she was defeated by Sweden 1: 4, in the game for third place the revenge against France was successful.

The best German player was Jörg Roßkopf with a 10: 4 balance.

Women's team

The German women were divided into Group A of Category 1 and came in third here. They won against Belgium, Hungary, Sweden and the Netherlands, but lost against Romania. So they finished third and played for places 5 to 8. Here they lost to England and won the game for place five against the ČSSR.

Men's singles

Ladies singles

Men's doubles

Ladies doubles

Mixed

useful information

  • As the most successful athletes in the team competitions, Jörg Roßkopf and Bettine Vriesekoop were awarded the JOOLA Trophy and received 5,000 DM.
  • At the age of 14, Nicole Delle was the youngest German player to take part in a European Championship.
  • The Dutch trainer Jan Vlieg received the fairness award. He successfully acted on the referee when he mistakenly awarded his protégé Bettine Vriesekoop a point in the game against Olga Nemes . The referee corrected his decision.
  • The women's doubles final had to be canceled because the Hungarian Gabriella Wirth could not continue playing for health reasons.
  • The youngest participant was 13-year-old Sabine Borre Larsen from Denmark.
  • The Faroe Islands stayed away from this European Championship because they wanted to set up an office for the table tennis association instead.
  • A total of 4246 sets were played at this EM. The most common result was 21:19 (400 times), followed by 21:18 (365 times) and 22:20 (190 times).
  • Only three players were able to win a game after a 2-0 set deficit: Jörg Roßkopf , Jean-Philippe Gatien and Wang Yansheng .
  • The highest victory went to the Frenchman Rozenn Yquel with 21: 3, 21: 3 against Hrafnhildur Sigurdardottir from Iceland.
  • There were 89 referees from 21 nations in action. Erwin Preiss was the head judge.
  • All 42 doping tests carried out were negative.

ETTU Congress

The ETTU Congress met parallel to the competitions . The delegates from 37 countries elected Hans Wilhelm Gäb from Germany as the new president. His predecessor Mihovil Kapetanic (Yugoslavia) no longer competed. Since the office of Vice President according to the ETTU statutes may not be held by a compatriot of the President, Ella Zeller-Constantinescu had to give up this position. In addition, the structure of the top management was changed: There should now be three Vice Presidents and a full-time Secretary General.

Results

competition rank winner
Team men 1. Sweden ( Jan-Ove Waldner , Jörgen Persson , Mikael Appelgren , Erik Lindh , Peter Karlsson )
2. England ( Carl Prean , Alan Cooke , Chen Xinhua , Matthew Syed )
3. Germany ( Jörg Roßkopf , Steffen Fetzner , Peter Franz )
4th France ( Didier Mommessin , Damien Éloi , Nicolas Chatelain , Jean-Philippe Gatien , Patrick Chila )
6th Austria ( Ding Yi , Dietmar Palmi , Qianli Qian )
23. Switzerland ( Stefan Renold , Thierry Miller , Jens Sidler, Kurt Mühlethaler)
Team women 1. Romania ( Otilia Bădescu , Emilia Ciosu , Maria Bogoslov)
2. Netherlands ( Mirjam Hooman , Bettine Vriesekoop , Gerdie Keen )
3. EUN ( Jelena Timina , Galina Melnik , Irina Palina , Valentina Popová )
4th Yugoslavia ( Jasna Fazlić , Gordana Perkučin )
7th Germany ( Olga Nemes , Nicole Struse , Elke Schall )
16. Austria ( Petra Fichtinger , Vera Bazzi , Karin Albustin , Martina Rabl)
22nd Switzerland (Ilona Knecht, Sibylle Schneider)
Men's singles 1. Jörg Roßkopf (GER)
2. Jean-Michel Saive (BEL)
3rd to 4th Andrzej Grubba (POL)
3rd to 4th Zoran Primorac (CRO)
Ladies singles 1. Bettine Vriesekoop (NLD)
2. Lisa Lomas (ENG)
3rd to 4th Marie Hrachová (TCH)
3rd to 4th Mirjam Hooman (NLD)
Men's doubles 1. Jörgen Persson / Erik Lindh (SWE)
2. Jan-Ove Waldner / Mikael Appelgren (SWE)
3rd to 4th Peter Karlsson / Thomas von Scheele (SWE)
3rd to 4th Ilija Lupulesku / Slobodan Grujić (YUG)
Ladies doubles 1. Jasna Fazlić / Gordana Perkučin (YUG)
2. Csilla Bátorfi / Gabriella Wirth (HUN)
3rd to 4th Mirjam Hooman / Bettine Vriesekoop (NED)
3rd to 4th Irina Palina / Jelena Timina (EUN)
Mixed 1. Călin Creangă / Otilia Bădescu (GRE / ROM)
2. Jean-Philippe Gatien / Wang Xiaoming (FRA)
3rd to 4th Zoran Primorac / Csilla Bátorfi (CRO / HUN)
3rd to 4th Thomas von Scheele / Marie Svensson (SWE)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1992/5, page 44
  2. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1992/5 Page 11
  3. ↑ a b DTS magazine , 1992/5 page 23
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1992/5, page 14
  5. ↑ a b c d DTS magazine , 1992/5 page 20
  6. ↑ a b DTS magazine , 1992/5 page 21
  7. ↑ DTS magazine , 1992/6 page 36
  8. ↑ DTS magazine , 1992/5, pages 12-13

literature

  • Detailed report in the DTS magazine DTS , 1992/5, pages 4–26, 41–53

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