European table tennis championship 1994
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.
Category 1 | Category 2 | |||||||
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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 |
Category 1 | Category 2 | |||||
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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
- descent
Men's | Ladies | |||
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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
- Jörg Roßkopf : Bye in round 1, victory against Peter Nilsson (Sweden), Roland Vimi (Slovakia), Thierry Cabrera (Belgium), defeat in the quarter-finals against Jan-Ove Waldner (Sweden)
- Peter Franz : Victory against Arturas Orlovas (Lithuania), loss against Danny Heister (Netherlands)
- Christian Dreher : Victory against Srdan Milicevic (ISP), defeat against Jean-Philippe Gatien (France)
- Richard Prause : defeat against Thomas von Scheele (Sweden)
- Steffen Fetzner : Fetzner did not start because of an injury.
Ladies singles
- Jie Schöpp : BYE, victory against Els Billen (Belgium), Polona Cehovin (Slovenia), Daniela Gergeltschewa (Bulgaria), Otilia Bădescu (Romania), loss in the semifinals against Marie Svensson (Sweden)
- Nicole Struse : BYE, victory against Tatiana Stofblat (Israel), Jana Dobesova (ČSSR), Jelena Timina (Russia), Wang Xiaoming (France), loss in the semifinals against Gerdie Keen (Netherlands)
- Olga Nemes : BYE, victory against Polona Frelih (Slovenia), loss in the round of 16 against Gerdie Keen (Netherlands)
- Christiane Praedel : Victory against Martine Hubert (Belgium), loss against Tu Dai Yong (Switzerland)
- Christina Fischer : defeat against Adriana Simion (Romania)
- Monika Neumann (starting for Liechtenstein): Victory in qualification against Bethan Daunton (Wales), Hana Shmerkin (Israel), victory in the main round against Linda Mesan (Bosnia-Herzegovina), loss against Åsa Svensson (Sweden)
Men's doubles
- Jörg Roßkopf / Steffen Fetzner : BYE, victory against Vladimir Dvorak / Aleksandr Levadnij (Ukraine), Daniel Cioca / Roland Krmaschek (Greece / ČSSR), Peter Karlsson / Thomas von Scheele (Sweden), loss in the semifinals against Jean-Michel Saive / Zoran Primorac (Belgium / Croatia)
- Christian Dreher / Wladimir Samsonow (Belarus): Victory against Oleg Danchenko / Sergej Sokolovskij (Ukraine), Allan Bentsen / Kim Hogsberg (Denmark), Jan-Ove Waldner / Erik Lindh (Sweden), Thierry Cabrera / Frederic Sonnet (Belgium), defeat in the semifinals against Kalinikos Kreanga / Zoran Kalinić (Greece / ISP)
- Peter Franz / Petr Korbel (ČSSR): defeat against Allan Bentsen / Kim Hogsberg (Denmark)
- Richard Prause / Qianli Qian (Austria): defeat against Paul Haldan / Henk van Spanje (Netherlands)
Ladies doubles
- Christina Fischer / Nicole Struse : Victory against Pille Hiiu / Milla Valasti (Estonia / Finland), Olga Gutler / Marina Kravchenko (Israel), Åsa Svensson / Marie Svensson (Sweden), defeat in the quarter-finals against Csilla Bátorfi / Krisztina Tóth (Hungary)
- Olga Nemes / Jie Schöpp : BYE, win against Mihaela Encea / Mihaela Șteff (Romania), loss in the round of 16 against Zuzana Poliačková / Valentina Popová (Slovakia)
- Christiane Praedel / Tu Dai Yong (Switzerland): Victory against Benedicte Meyer / Ni Xialian (Luxembourg), loss against Lisa Lomas / Andrea Holt (England)
Mixed
- Daniel Cioca (Greece) / Jie Schöpp : BYE , victory against Martin Doppler / Martina Rabl (Austria), Robert Smrekar / Polona Frelih (Slovenia), loss in the round of 16 against Damien Éloi / Wang Xiaoming (France)
- Peter Franz / Nicole Struse : BYE, victory against Ivan Minkevich / Tatyana Logatskaya (Belarus), Zoran Kalinić / Fatima Isanovic (ISP), loss in the round of 16 against Lucjan Błaszczyk / Els Billen (Poland / Belgium)
- Richard Prause / Christina Fischer : Victory against George Innes / Sarah Hurry (Scotland), Sergei Azvazhhinsky / Veranika Pavlowitsch (Belarus), defeat against Zoran Primorac / Csilla Bátorfi (Croatia / Hungary)
- Christian Dreher / Christiane Praedel : Victory against Skylet Andrew / Fiona Mommessin (England), Peter Nilsson / Cecile Ozer (Sweden / Belgium), loss against Trinko Keen / Gerdie Keen (Netherlands)
- Steffen Fetzner / Olga Nemes : Not started because of an injury to Fetzner.
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
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b DTS magazine , 1994/4 page 6
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/4 page 41
- ↑ 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
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/4 page 10
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/4 page 42
- ↑ a b DTS magazine , 1994/4 page 13
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/4 page 44
- ↑ a b DTS magazine , 1994/3 page 43
- ↑ 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
Web links
- Men's team competition on ettu.org, all results ( memento of October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 19, 2016)
- Team competition women on ettu.org, all results ( memento from June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 19, 2016)
- Men's singles on ettu.org, all results ( memento from June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 19, 2016)
- Women's singles on ettu.org, all results ( memento of October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 19, 2016)
- Men's doubles on ettu.org, all results ( memento of October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 19, 2016)
- Ladies doubles on ettu.org, all results ( memento from June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 19, 2016; PDF; 567 kB)
- Mixed competition on ettu.org, all results ( memento of October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 19, 2016)