European table tennis championship 1994

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The 19th European Table Tennis Championship took place from March 25th to April 4th 1994 in Birmingham . The venue was the National Indoor Arena . A total of 26,000 spectators, significantly fewer than expected, saw the games.

The Belgian Jean-Michel Saive and Marie Svensson from Sweden became European champions in singles. In the men's team competition, France replaced the winner of the last four European Championships - Sweden. The women's team from Russia won gold.

Germany won six medals. The women's team won silver, the men's team won bronze, Jie Schöpp in singles and Jörg Roßkopf / Steffen Fetzner and Christian Dreher with Wladimir Samsonow (Belarus) in doubles.

Competition mode teams

There were 44 men's and 38 women's teams.

It was played in the same mode as in the previous EM 1992 . 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 remaining groups from Category 2 consisted of five 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. This time, a team fight was held for both men and women according to the modified Swaythling Cup system for teams of three , i.e. with a double. The game system for men was adopted for women.

The first in the group in category 2 fought for places 13 to 14, which entitle them 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.

Final result of the group games men
Category 1 Category 2
space Group A Group B Group C Group D Group E Group F. Group G Group H.
1. Sweden France Denmark Romania Slovakia Slovenia Italy Turkey
2. Germany England Ireland Bulgaria Belarus Finland Croatia Spain
3. Belgium Hungary Scotland Wales Estonia Ukraine Israel Armenia
4th Poland Russia Luxembourg Switzerland Latvia Lithuania Portugal Bosnia Herzegovina
5. Netherlands Greece Georgia Cyprus Liechtenstein Iceland Malta Norway
6th ČSSR Austria Isle of Man Albania
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. Russia Hungary Austria ČSSR Ukraine Bulgaria
2. Germany England Armenia Slovenia Lithuania Greece
3. Romania Italy Finland Poland Spain Israel
4th Sweden France Norway Scotland Estonia Denmark
5. Croatia Netherlands Wales Belarus Latvia Bosnia Herzegovina
6th Belgium Slovakia Malta Iceland Portugal Ireland
7th Isle of Man San Marino
Ascent
  1. ↑ a b c d climbers
descent
  1. ↑ a b c d relegated
Placement games 1 - 4
Men's Ladies
Semifinals France - Germany
Sweden - England 		4: 3
4: 1 		Russia - England
Germany - Hungary 		4: 1
4: 0
Endgame France - Sweden 4: 3 Russia - Germany 4: 1
3rd place match Germany - England 4: 2 Hungary - England 4-0

Cutting off the Germans

Eva Jeler was the head coach . The Yugoslav Zlatko Čordaš looked after the men, Dirk Schimmelpfennig and Klaus Schmittinger trained the women.

Due to a knee injury in the run-up to the European Championship, Steffen Fetzner decided not to start in the individual and mixed competition.

Men's team

The German team suffered a 2-4 defeat against Sweden in the 1st category in Group A. This contrasted with victories over Poland, the ČSSR, the Netherlands and Belgium. That was enough for second place. In the second round for places 1 to 4, she lost to France 3: 4, in the game for third place she defeated England.

The best German player was Jörg Roßkopf with a 17-2 record in singles and 7-0 in doubles with Steffen Fetzner .

Women's team

The German women were divided into Group A of Category 1 and came in second here. They won against Belgium, Sweden, Romania and Croatia, but lost against Russia. So they finished second and played for places 1 to 4. Here they defeated Hungary 4-0 and then lost the final against Russia 1: 4.

Men's singles

Ladies singles

Men's doubles

Ladies doubles

Mixed

useful information

  • The Swede Jörgen Persson was absent due to a car accident.
  • The Dutch women Mirjam Hooman and Bettine Vriesekoop were not used in the team fight because of internal quarrels. They enforced their entry authorization for the individual competitions by court decision.
  • As the most successful athletes in the team competitions, Jörg Roßkopf and Jelena Timina were awarded the JOOLA Trophy and received 5,000 DM.
  • The Fairness Prize, a trophy donated by the French Table Tennis Association, went to Marie Svensson (Sweden) and Massimo Costantino (Italy)
  • The Hungarian federation has two mishaps at the award ceremonies: First, the Italian flag was hoisted instead of the Hungarian flag at the ceremony in the team competition, then the Israeli national anthem was confused with the Hungarian national anthem during the mixed tribute. Then the award ceremony was repeated in mixed.
  • 47 British referees were supplemented by 37 non-British colleagues, including the Germans Jürgen Becker (Wiesbaden) and Albert Hornung (Frankenhardt).

ETTU Congress

The ETTU Congress met parallel to the competitions . The delegates from 48 associations elected the Swede Nils Bergström as the new president to succeed Hans Wilhelm Gäb (Germany), who had resigned 10 months earlier. Nils Bergström then took over the office on a provisional basis. Eberhard Schöler , Jean Devys (France) and Stefano Bosi (Italy) became Vice President.

Results

competition rank winner
Team men 1. France ( Damien Éloi , Nicolas Chatelain , Jean-Philippe Gatien , Patrick Chila , Christophe Legoût )
2. Sweden ( Jan-Ove Waldner , Erik Lindh , Peter Karlsson , Thomas von Scheele , Fredrik Hakansson )
3. Germany ( Jörg Roßkopf , Steffen Fetzner , Peter Franz , Richard Prause , Christian Dreher )
4th England ( Carl Prean , Alan Cooke , Chen Xinhua , Matthew Syed , Andrew Eden )
11. Austria ( Ding Yi , Qianli Qian , Werner Schlager , Karl Jindrak )
31. Switzerland ( Thierry Miller , Roland Schmid, Marc Schreiber, Beat Staufer )
Team women 1. Russia ( Jelena Timina , Galina Melnik , Irina Palina , Oksana Kusch , Svetlana Bakhtina )
2. Germany ( Olga Nemes , Nicole Struse , Jie Schöpp , Christina Fischer , Christiane Praedel )
3. Hungary ( Csilla Bátorfi , Krisztina Tóth , Vivien Ello , Mária Fazekas )
4th England ( Lisa Lomas , Andrea Holt , Alison Gordon , Sally Marling , Nicola Deaton )
15th Austria ( Karin Albustin , Petra Fichtinger , Martina Rabl, Adriane Burg)
Men's singles 1. Jean-Michel Saive (BEL)
2. Jan-Ove Waldner (SWE)
3rd to 4th Patrick Chila (FRA)
3rd to 4th Zoran Primorac (CRO)
Ladies singles 1. Marie Svensson (SWE)
2. Gerdie Keen (NED)
3rd to 4th Jie Schöpp (GER)
3rd to 4th Nicole Struse (GER)
Men's doubles 1. Kalinikos Kreanga / Zoran Kalinić (GRE / ISP)
2. Jean-Michel Saive / Zoran Primorac (BEL / CRO)
3rd to 4th Jörg Roßkopf / Steffen Fetzner (GER)
3rd to 4th Christian Dreher / Wladimir Samsonow (GER / BLR)
Ladies doubles 1. Csilla Bátorfi / Krisztina Tóth (HUN)
2. Jelena Timina / Irina Palina (RUS)
3rd to 4th Anne Boileau / Sylvie Plaisant (FRA)
3rd to 4th Rūta Garkauskaite / Jolanta Prūsienė (LIT)
Mixed 1. Zoran Primorac / Csilla Bátorfi (CRO / HUN)
2. Kalinikos Kreanga / Otilia Bădescu (GRE / ROM)
3rd to 4th Jaromír Truksa / Valentina Popová (SVK)
3rd to 4th Lucjan Błaszczyk / Els Billen (POL / BEL)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b DTS magazine , 1994/4 page 6
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/4 page 41
  3. ↑ a b c d The following activists from the former Yugoslavia did not appear under one nation, but as Independent Federation Players (IFP) : Zoran Kalinić , Slobodan Grujić , Aleksandar Karakašević , Srdan Milicevic, Fatima Isanovic, Stanisava Stanic, Tatjana Mancic
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/4 page 10
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/4 page 42
  6. ↑ a b DTS magazine , 1994/4 page 13
  7. ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/4 page 44
  8. ↑ a b DTS magazine , 1994/3 page 43
  9. ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/4 page 15

literature

  • Detailed report in DTS magazine DTS , 1994/4 pages 4–15, 40–47
  • Preview: DTS magazine , 1994/3 v 43–47

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