European table tennis championship 2002

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The 23rd European Table Tennis Championships took place from March 30th to April 7th, 2002 in Zagreb . The venue was the Dom športova sports hall . That was the first European championship where sentence length was not 21, but 11 points.

Germany won four medals. Timo Boll was the first time European champion in singles, he defeated the Greek Kalinikos Kreanga in the final . He also won the title in doubles with Zoltan Fejer-Konnerth . He also played a major role in winning the silver medal in the team competition, in which the German women made it to the final against Romania.

The Luxembourger Ni Xialian became European champion in singles for the second time after 1998, she also won the mixed with Lucjan Błaszczyk from Poland. The women's doubles were won by the Croatian-Romanian couple Tamara Boroš / Mihaela Șteff .

Competition mode teams

There were 45 men's and 37 women's teams.

The game mode has been completely changed. The basis was the placement of the Europa League season 2000/2002. The first 16 teams were placed in the super division. These played from places 1 to 16 in the knockout system, with the first four teams from the European League only having to compete in the second round, the quarter-finals. The teams in positions 17 to 32 of the Europa League were made up of Division I, the remaining nations in Division II.

A team fight was carried out according to the World Cup system , that is, a maximum of five singles with three winning sets (best of five), but no doubles, were played.

Cutting off the Germans

Dirk Schimmelpfennig was the head coach . Istvan Korpa looked after the men, Richard Prause trained the women.

Men's team

The German team finished first in the Europa League in the 2000/2002 season. So she went straight to the quarter-finals, where she won Yugoslavia 3-0. After beating France 3-2 in the semi-final, she was in the final, in which she lost 3-2 to Sweden. Timo Boll got both points in the final .

Jörg Roßkopf stayed away from the European Championship due to an injury.

Women's team

The German women also made it directly to the quarter-finals as winners of the European league winners. Here they defeated Yugoslavia and Sweden in the semifinals with 3-1. The final against Romania was lost 3-2.

Men's singles

Apart from Timo Boll, no German reached the last sixteen.

Ladies singles

Three German women reached the last sixteen.

Men's doubles

Ladies doubles

  • Elke Wosik / Nicole Struse : Victory against Catherine Davies / Siwan Davies (Wales), Sandra Johansson / Susanne Jonsson (Sweden), loss against Agathe Costes / Anne-Claire Palut (France)
  • Tanja Hain-Hofmann / Laura Stumper : win without a fight against Spela Burgar / Bethan Deborah Daunton (Slovenia / Wales), loss against Janne Jensen / Mie Skov (Denmark)
  • Jessica Göbel / Natalia Tsygankova (Belarus): defeat against Muge Atakan / Nevin Mutlu (Turkey)

Mixed

ITTF meeting

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the world association ITTF took place parallel to the competitions . It decided to change the service rule to the effect that the ball must be visible to the opponent from the moment it leaves the hand. Before this change, the ball did not have to be visible until it touched the server's racket. With this rule change it is achieved that the server is no longer allowed to cover the ball with his free hand during the service phase. Another decision concerned the drawing of the doubles at the Olympic Games. If two doubles from a country qualify, then they must be drawn into the same half of the tournament sheet. So there are always doubles from different nations in the final.

Results

competition rank winner
Team men 1. Sweden ( Jan-Ove Waldner , Peter Karlsson , Fredrik Hakansson , Jens Lundqvist )
2. Germany ( Timo Boll , Torben Wosik , Lars Hielscher , Bastian Steger )
3. Austria ( Werner Schlager , Robert Gardos , Chen Weixing , Qianli Qian )
4th France ( Damien Éloi , Patrick Chila , Christophe Legoût , Eric Varin )
31. Switzerland (Marc Schreiber, Raphael Keller, Michael Christe, Nicola Mohler )
Team women 1. Romania ( Mihaela Șteff , Adriana Nastase , Ana Gogorita )
2. Germany ( Nicole Struse , Jessica Göbel , Tanja Hain-Hofmann , Elke Wosik )
3. Sweden ( Åsa Svensson , Sandra Johansson, Susanne Jonsson )
4th Hungary ( Csilla Bátorfi , Krisztina Tóth , Petra Lovas , Mária Fazekas )
13. Austria ( Liu Jia , Judith Herczig , Martina Petzner)
31. Switzerland (Tini Schmid, Gabriela Wüst, Melanie Eggel)
Men's singles 1. Timo Boll (GER)
2. Kalinikos Kreanga (GRE)
3rd to 4th Zoran Primorac (CRO)
3rd to 4th Werner Schlager (AUT)
Ladies singles 1. Ni Xialian (LUX)
2. Krisztina Tóth (HUN)
3rd to 4th Csilla Bátorfi (HUN)
3rd to 4th Tamara Boroš (CRO)
Men's doubles 1. Timo Boll / Zoltan Fejer-Konnerth (GER)
2. Lucjan Błaszczyk / Tomasz Krzeszewski (POL)
3rd to 4th Damien Éloi / Patrick Chila (FRA)
3rd to 4th Danny Heister / Trinko Keen (NED)
Ladies doubles 1. Tamara Boroš / Mihaela Șteff (CRO / ROM)
2. Viktoria Pavlovich / Tatsiana Kostromina (BLR)
3rd to 4th Swetlana Ganina / Irina Palina (RUS)
3rd to 4th Rūta Garkauskaite / Jolanta Prūsienė (LIT)
Mixed 1. Lucjan Błaszczyk / Ni Xialian (POL / LUX)
2. Aleksandar Karakašević / Rūta Garkauskaite (YUG / LIT)
3rd to 4th Chen Weixing / Viktoria Pavlovich (AUT / BLR)
3rd to 4th Werner Schlager / Liu Jia (AUT)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Counting method (table tennis)
  2. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2002/4 p. 27

literature

  • Detailed report in DTS magazine DTS , 2002/4 pp. 12–27 + 37–49
  • Preview in DTS magazine DTS , 2002/3 pp. 20–28
  • Report from an Austrian perspective in ÖTTZ (Austrian table tennis newspaper ) May / June 2002, issue 46

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