European table tennis championship 1996

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The 20th European Table Tennis Championships took place from April 27th to May 7th 1996 in Bratislava . The venues were the main Pasienski hall and the Mladost secondary hall .

Sweden dominated the men's competition, winning gold in singles, doubles and team competitions. There are also two other medals in the individual. Germany achieved the same successes in the women's division: Nicole Struse became European champion in singles and doubles with Elke Schall , and the women's team also won the title. Jie Schöpp and Elke Schall won bronze in the women's singles, Jörg Roßkopf / Steffen Fetzner in the men's doubles.

Only in mixed did neither Germans nor Swedes make it into the last four.

Competition mode teams

There were 41 men's and 39 women's teams.

It was played in the same mode as in the previous EM 1994 . 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 and Category 3 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. The two first and second tables from category 2 played similarly for places 13 to 16, the third and fourth table from Category 2 for 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 match was held for both men and women according to the modified Swaythling Cup system for teams of three , i.e. with a double.

The group first and second 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 Category 3
space Group A Group B Group C Group D Group E Group F. Group G
1. France Sweden Slovakia Belarus Israel Ukraine Norway
2. Belgium Poland Austria Yugoslavia Switzerland Portugal Luxembourg
3. Russia ČSSR Romania Greece Estonia Bosnia Herzegovina Armenia
4th Germany Italy Spain Denmark Lithuania Scotland Wales
5. Netherlands Hungary Croatia Turkey Iceland Cyprus Latvia
6th Slovenia England Finland Bulgaria Malta Albania Azerbaijan
7th Ireland
Final result of the group games women
Category 1 Category 2 Category 3
space Group A Group B Group C Group D Group E Group F. Group G
1. Hungary Germany Netherlands Slovakia Luxembourg Belarus Portugal
2. Romania England Armenia Yugoslavia Latvia Turkey Denmark
3. Russia Italy Greece Slovenia Scotland Wales Switzerland
4th Ukraine ČSSR Bulgaria Lithuania Iceland Estonia Bosnia Herzegovina
5. France Croatia Israel Poland Albania Ireland Malta
6th Belgium Sweden Austria Finland Norway Azerbaijan
7th Spain
Not started
  1. ↑ a b c d e not started
Ascent
  1. ↑ a b c d climbers
descent
  1. ↑ a b c d relegated
Placement games 1 - 4
Men's Ladies
Semifinals Sweden - Belgium
France - Poland 		4: 1
4: 1 		Hungary - England
Germany - Romania 		4-0
4-2
Endgame Sweden - France 4: 1 Germany - Hungary 4: 2
3rd place match Poland - Belgium 4: 1 Romania - England 4-0

Cutting off the Germans

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

Men's team

The German team lost in the 1st category in Group A against France, Belgium and Russia. This contrasted with victories over the Netherlands and Slovenia. This was only enough for fourth place. In the second round for places 5 to 8, she won against the ČSSR and Russia with 4: 1 each, which was enough for fifth place.

The best German player was Jörg Roßkopf with a 10: 2 record in the individual. Thomas Schröder made his debut in the international matches against Slovenia and France, but remained without a win.

Women's team

The German women were divided into group B of category 1 and reached first place by winning 4-0 against Italy, Croatia, Sweden and the ČSSR and 4-1 against England. In the games for places 1 to 4 they defeated Romania 4-2 and finally Hungary 4-2 in the final.

Jie Schöpp scored a 9-0 score in the singles.

Men's singles

Ladies singles

Men's doubles

Ladies doubles

Mixed

useful information

  • The bad tournament organization was criticized by the organizer, but also by the ETTU , which had insufficiently checked the organizer in advance.
  • The Swedish Marie Svensson , European Champion from 1994, canceled the participation because of a foot injury.

ETTU Congress

The ETTU Congress met parallel to the competitions . The delegates lifted the foreigner restriction for the European Cup . All active players who belong to a member state of the ETTU are now eligible to play. Thus, for example, a German team can only consist of foreigners.

Results

competition rank winner
Team men 1. Sweden ( Jan-Ove Waldner , Erik Lindh , Peter Karlsson , Thomas von Scheele , Jörgen Persson )
2. France ( Damien Éloi , Nicolas Chatelain , Jean-Philippe Gatien , Patrick Chila , Christophe Legoût )
3. Poland ( Andrzej Grubba , Lucjan Błaszczyk , Piotr Skierski , Tomasz Krzeszewski , Piotr Szafranek )
4th Belgium ( Jean-Michel Saive , Philippe Saive , Andras Podpinka , Sebastien Massart , Marc Closset )
5. Germany ( Jörg Roßkopf , Steffen Fetzner , Peter Franz , Richard Prause , Thomas Schröder )
14th Austria ( Werner Schlager , Ding Yi , Qianli Qian , Kostadin Lengerov , Karl Jindrak )
31. Switzerland ( Thierry Miller , Jens Sidler, Marc Schreiber, Beat Staufer )
Team women 1. Germany ( Olga Nemes , Nicole Struse , Jie Schöpp , Elke Schall , Christina Fischer )
2. Hungary ( Csilla Bátorfi , Krisztina Tóth , Vivien Ello , Mária Fazekas )
3. Romania ( Otilia Bădescu , Emilia Ciosu , Adriana Simion , Mihaela Șteff )
4th England ( Lisa Lomas , Andrea Holt , Alison Broe , Nicola Deaton )
24. Austria ( Petra Fichtinger , Martina Rabl, Michaela Zillner , Karin Albustin )
32. Switzerland ( Tu Dai Yong , Tini Schmid, Sandra Busin )
Men's singles 1. Jan-Ove Waldner (SWE)
2. Jörgen Persson (SWE)
3rd to 4th Jean-Philippe Gatien (FRA)
3rd to 4th Peter Karlsson (SWE)
Ladies singles 1. Nicole Struse (GER)
2. Krisztina Tóth (HUN)
3rd to 4th Jie Schöpp (GER)
3rd to 4th Elke Schall (GER)
Men's doubles 1. Jan-Ove Waldner / Jörgen Persson (SWE)
2. Lucjan Błaszczyk / Andrzej Grubba (POL)
3rd to 4th Kalinikos Kreanga / Zoran Kalinić (GRE / YUG)
3rd to 4th Jörg Roßkopf / Steffen Fetzner (GER)
Ladies doubles 1. Nicole Struse / Elke Schall (GER)
2. Bettine Vriesekoop / Emily Noor (NED)
3rd to 4th Otilia Bădescu / Emilia Ciosu (ROM)
3rd to 4th Rūta Garkauskaite / Jolanta Prūsienė (LIT)
Mixed 1. Wladimir Samsonow / Krisztina Tóth (BLR / HUN)
2. Kalinikos Kreanga / Otilia Bădescu (GRE / ROM)
3rd to 4th Maxim Shmyrev / Galina Melnik (RUS)
3rd to 4th Lucjan Błaszczyk / Emilia Ciosu (POL / ROM)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Journal DTS , 1996/6 pp. 6-7
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/5 p. 9
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/6 p. 19
  4. ↑ Christina Fischer was nominated for the team, but not used.

literature

  • Detailed report in DTS magazine DTS , 1996/6 pp. 4–21, 44–53
  • Preview: DTS magazine , 1996/5 pp. 4–9

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