European table tennis championship 1998

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The 21st European Table Tennis Championship took place from April 23rd to May 3rd, 1998 in Eindhoven . The indoor sports center and the ice rink were the venues .

The German women defended two gold medals. The women's team was again European champion and the double Nicole Struse / Elke Schall also won the title again. In addition, Jörg Roßkopf won gold with the Belarusian Wladimir Samsonow , who was also successful in the individual competition. Ni Xialian from Luxembourg won the women's singles , Nicole Struse came third. In the men's team, France became European team champions.

The debutant Timo Boll drew attention by throwing the reigning world champion Jan-Ove Waldner out of the race in the individual competition.

Competition mode teams

45 men's and 40 women's teams competed.

It was played in the same mode as in the previous EM 1996 , only the organization of the groups below Category 1 was changed. Category 3 was omitted, 8 instead of 5 groups were formed, whereby the number of teams per group was reduced.

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 three to five 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 eight first in the table from Category 2 played for places 13 to 20, the second in the table by places 21 to 28 etc. The 13th and 14th could start as a promoted in category 1 at the next European Championship, the 11th and 12th had to relegate to category 2.

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.

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

Cutting off the Germans

Eva Jeler was the head coach . Glenn Östh looked after the men, Martin Adomeit trained the women.

Men's team

The German team lost in the 1st category in Group A against France and Poland. On the other hand, there were victories over the Czechoslovak Republic, Hungary and Yugoslavia. This was only enough for third place. In the second round for places 5 to 8, she won against Russia and Yugoslavia 4-0 each, which was enough for fifth place.

Women's team

The German women were divided into group B of category 1 and reached first place by beating Romania, Russia, ČSSR, France and Slovakia. In the games for places 1 to 4, they defeated England 4-0 and finally Hungary 4-3 in the final.

Jie Schöpp remained undefeated in the team fights.

Men's singles

No German reached the last sixteen.

Ladies singles

Men's doubles

Ladies doubles

Mixed

useful information

  • In the game Elena Kovtun (Ukraine) against Lisa Lomas (England), the time game started in the first set when the score was 3-2 .
  • Erwin Preiss (Germany) was one of the two head judges.

ETTU Congress

The ETTU Congress met parallel to the competitions . The Italian Stefano Bosi was elected as the new president . He has held this post on a provisional basis since May 1997, after the previous President Nils Bergström (Sweden) resigned because he was appointed Vice-President of the world association ITTF . The deputy was Eberhard Schöler . Rudolf Sporrer from Austria took over the vacant position of Vice President. The Congress decided to introduce the Champions League from the 1998/99 season.

Results

competition rank winner
Team men 1. France ( Damien Éloi , Nicolas Chatelain , Jean-Philippe Gatien , Patrick Chila , Eric Varin )
2. Poland ( Lucjan Błaszczyk , Michał Dziubański , Piotr Skierski , Tomasz Krzeszewski , Marcin Kusinski )
3. Sweden ( Jan-Ove Waldner , Erik Lindh , Peter Karlsson , Jörgen Persson , Frederik Hakansson )
4th Netherlands ( Chen Sung , Jörg de Cock , Danny Heister , Trinko Keen , Kalun Yu )
5. Germany ( Jörg Roßkopf , Steffen Fetzner , Timo Boll , Torben Wosik , Peter Franz )
9. Austria ( Werner Schlager , Karl Jindrak , Kostadin Lengerov , Ding Yi , Qianli Qian )
31. Switzerland ( Thierry Miller , Stephan Stricker, Marc Schreiber, Jens Sidler)
Team women 1. Germany ( Olga Nemes , Nicole Struse , Jie Schöpp , Elke Schall , Christina Fischer )
2. Hungary ( Csilla Bátorfi , Krisztina Tóth , Mária Fazekas , Eva Braun)
3. Romania ( Otilia Bădescu , Mihaela Șteff , Mihaela Encea , Antonela Manac , Adriana Nastase )
4th England ( Lisa Lomas , Andrea Holt , Helen Lower , Nicola Deaton )
16. Austria ( Petra Fichtinger , Liu Jia , Judith Herczig )
Men's singles 1. Vladimir Samsonov (BLR)
2. Zoran Primorac (CRO)
3rd to 4th Trinko Keen (NED)
3rd to 4th Jean-Philippe Gatien (FRA)
Ladies singles 1. Ni Xialian (LUX)
2. Tamara Boroš (CRO)
3rd to 4th Krisztina Tóth (HUN)
3rd to 4th Nicole Struse (GER)
Men's doubles 1. Jörg Roßkopf / Wladimir Samsonow (GER / BLR)
2. Kalinikos Kreanga / Ilija Lupulesku (GRE / YUG)
3rd to 4th Werner Schlager / Karl Jindrak (AUT)
3rd to 4th Jan-Ove Waldner / Jörgen Persson (SWE)
Ladies doubles 1. Nicole Struse / Elke Schall (GER)
2. Otilia Bădescu / Marie Svensson (ROM / SWE)
3rd to 4th Pernilla Pettersson / Åsa Svensson (SWE)
3rd to 4th Rūta Garkauskaite / Jolanta Prūsienė (LIT)
Mixed 1. Ilija Lupulesku / Otilia Bădescu (ROM)
2. Erik Lindh / Marie Svensson (SWE)
3rd to 4th Yang Min / Alessia Arisi (ITA)
3rd to 4th Jauhen Schtschazinin / Tatsiana Kostromina (BLR)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Journal DTS , 1998/5 p. 17
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1998/5 p. 7

literature

  • Detailed report in DTS - Zeitschrift DTS , 1998/5, pp. 4–17, 42–52
  • Preview in DTS magazine DTS , 1998/4, pp. 9-13

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