European table tennis championship 2005

The 25th European Table Tennis Championships (officially LIEBHERR European Table Tennis Championships 2005 in German LIEBHERR European Championships 2005) was from March 27 to April 1, 2005 Aarhus instead. Competitions were held in singles, doubles, mixed and in a team.

The venue was the Atletion sports center in the south of the city. The competitions were held in four halls: Atletion Arena, "New" Hall, Old Stadium Hall and Team Danmark Hall.

Qualified athletes

Seven women and seven men started for Germany at the European Championships in Aarhus.

Women:	Men's:
Jessica Goebel Tanja Hain-Hofmann Kristin Silbereisen Nicole Struse Laura Stumper Elke Wosik Irene Ivancan	Timo Boll Zoltan Fejer-Konnerth Lars Hielscher Jörg Roßkopf Bastian Steger Christian Suess Torben Wosik

Four women and seven men competed in the championship for Austria.

Women:	Men's:
Veronika Heine Martina Petzner Li Qiangbing Liu Jia	Chen Weixing Robert Gardos Krisztian Gardos Karl Jindrak Kostadin Lengerov Werner Schlager Christoph Simoner

Cutting off the Germans

The German men were looked after by Richard Prause , the women by Tobias Beck and Jörg Bitzigeio . Dirk Schimmelpfennig was the head coach .

Team competition men

Even before the event, Jörg Roßkopf's nomination was controversial. Since he played unusually weak during the tournament, the criticism continued later. Lars Hielscher was out for a short time due to a viral illness.

After beating England 3-0, the German team lost 3-1 in the quarter-finals against Romania. In the games for places 5 to 8, it prevailed against Belgium 3-0 and against Russia 3-2 to reach 5th place.

This was rated as a failure, as one had hoped for the gold medal in advance.

Team competition women

Nicole Struse could not be used in the team competition because of a cold. Irene Ivancan was only used against Austria, she was not registered in the individual competitions.

In the second round, the team won against Poland 3-0. Then she was eliminated from the battle for medals - analogous to the men - by losing 3-1 to Romania. This was followed by a 3-1 defeat against Austria in the placement games. The subsequent 3-2 win against Russia meant 7th place.

Men's singles

The best result was achieved by Zoltan Fejer-Konnerth , who reached the quarter-finals after beating Christian Hotz (Switzerland), Peter Sereda (Sweden), Daniel Tsiokas (Greece) and Constantin Cioti (Romania), where he lost to Croatian Zoran Primorac . For Timo Boll , Alexei Smirnow (Russia) was already the final destination in the round of 16 . Before that he had won against Konstantin Parapanov (Bulgaria), Andrei Filimon (Romania) and Robert Gardos (Austria). Bastian Steger eliminated Daan Sliepen (Netherlands) and Adam Lindner (Hungary) and then lost to Belgian Jean-Michel Saive . Christian Suess , who prevailed against Arthur Grigoriev (Russia) and Philippe Saive , got just as far, but not against the Greek Kalinikos Kreanga . Also Torben Wosik failed only in round 3 of Chen Weixing (Austria) to victories over Bojan Milosevic (Serbia) and Mads Sorensen (Denmark). Jörg Roßkopf won against Yevhen Prishchepka (Ukraine) and then retired in Round 2 against Martin Monrad (Denmark).

Ladies singles

Nicole Struse performed best despite having just got over a cold. After victories over Tara Fusco (Ireland), Tetyana Tkachova (Ukraine), Svetlana Krekina (Russia) and Wenling Tan Monfardini (Italy), Tamara Boroš (Croatia) was the final destination in the quarter-finals . Elke Wosik made it to the last sixteen. She threw Lina Misikonyte (Lithuania), Ding Yan (Italy) and Csilla Bátorfi (Hungary) out of the race before she was eliminated by Liu Jia (Austria). Kristin Silbereisen won against Elena Mocrousov (Moldova) and Biljana Todorovic (Slovenia) and lost to Mihaela Steff-Merutiu . Jessica Göbel advanced one round against Phai Pang (France), then she was stopped by Iveta Vacenovská (Czech Republic).

Men's doubles

The double Boll / Suss made it to the semi-finals. It defeated Marc Closset / Michel de Boer (Belgium / Netherlands), Fjodor Kusmin / Maksim Shmyrev (Russia), Primorac / Tokič (Croatia / Slovenia) and Slobodan Grujić / Aleksandar Karakašević (Serbia). The double Samsonow / Kreanga (Belarus / Greece) had to admit defeat. The second German double Wosik / Fejer-Konnerth had to admit defeat to the Icelandic-Serbian couple Gudmundur Stephensen / Bojan Milošević in the first round.

Ladies doubles

Hain-Hofmann reached the quarter-finals, where they wereeliminatedagainst the Hungarians Bátorfi / Krisztina Tóth . They had previously defeated Bilgen Öztürk / Ayse Sen (Turkey), Linda Creemers / Sigrid Van Ulsen (Netherlands) and Wang Yu / Elizabeta Samara (Italy / Romania). Stumper / Silbereisen advanced one round against Ekaterina Ntoulaki / Christina Fili (Greece), but not against Li Yunfei / Martina Safran (Belgium / Slovenia).

Mixed

Jessica Göbel played with Ryan Jenkins from Wales and lost in the first round to Steger / Stumper , who were theneliminatedby Andrei Filimon / Elizabeta Samara (Romania). The Polish / German couple Błaszczyk / Struse came the furthest. After three wins over Andrej Gaćina / Matilda Ekholm (Croatia / Sweden), Feng Zhe / Asya Ilieva Kasabova (Bulgaria) and Panagiotis Gionis / Maria Mirou (Greece), the quarter-finals against Aleksandar Karakašević / Rūta Budiene (Serbia / Lithuania) ended. Roßkopf / Hain-Hofmann won against Ivan Katkov / Yunosheva (Ukraine) and Daniel Gorak / Magdalena Cihocka (Poland) and then lost against Crișan / Bădescu . Süß / Silbereisen werestoppedby Constantin Cioti / Adriana Zamfir (Romania)after the win against Mihai Bobocica / Wang Yu (Italy). The couple Torben Wosik / Elke Wosik got just as far,winning against Carlos Machado / Alba Prades (Spain) and then losing to Lubomir Pistej / Eva Ódorová (Slovakia).

Results women

team

space	country	player
1	Romania Romania	Otilia Bădescu Adriana Năstase-Simion-Zamfir Mihaela Șteff Elizabeta Samara
2	Croatia Croatia	Andrea Bakula Tamara Boroš Sandra Paović Cornelia Vaida
3	Italy Italy	Wenling Tan Monfardini Nikoleta Stefanova Laura Negrisoli
3	Slovenia Slovenia	Biljana Todorovic Martina Safran Helena Halas

Further placement games of the other teams gave the following result:

space	country
5	Hungary Hungary
6th	Austria Austria
7th	Germany Germany
8th	Russia Russia
9	Belarus 1995 Belarus
10	Sweden Sweden
11	Poland Poland
12	Belgium Belgium
13	Slovakia Slovakia
14th	Czech Republic Czech Republic
15th	Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro
16	Portugal Portugal

singles

space	country	player
1	Austria Austria	Liu Jia
2	Romania Romania	Mihaela Steff
3	Croatia Croatia	Tamara Boroš
3	Netherlands Netherlands	Li Jiao

In the final Liu Jia defeated Mihaela Steff 4-0 .
In the quarterfinals were eliminated:

Russia Irina Palina
Belarus 1995 Viktoria Pavlovich
Germany Nicole Struse
Hungary Krisztina Tóth

Double

space	country	player
1	Croatia Croatia	Mihaela Steff / Tamara Boroš
2	Hungary Hungary	Krisztina Tóth / Csilla Bátorfi
3	Italy Italy	Nikoleta Stefanova / Wenling Tan Monfardini
3	Russia Russia	Svetlana Ganina / Irina Palina

Mihaela Steff and Tamara Boroš won the final 4-0 against Krisztina Tóth and Csilla Bátorfi .

Results gentlemen

team

space	country	player
1	Denmark Denmark	Allan Bentsen Michael Maze Martin Monrad Finn Tugwell Christoffer Petersen
2	Austria Austria	Chen Weixing Robert Gardos Karl Jindrak Kostadin Lengerov Werner Schlager
3	Romania Romania	Andrei Filimon Adrian Crișan Constantin Cioti
3	Czech Republic Czech Republic	Petr Korbel Richard Výborný Marek Klasek Tomas Pavelka

Further placement games of the other teams gave the following result:

space	country
5	Germany Germany
6th	Russia Russia
7th	Sweden Sweden
8th	Belgium Belgium
9	Croatia Croatia
10	Norway Norway
11	Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro
12	Belarus 1995 Belarus
13	Poland Poland
14th	Spain Spain
15th	France France
16	United Kingdom United Kingdom

singles

space	country	player
1	Belarus 1995 Belarus	Vladimir Samsonov
2	Belgium Belgium	Jean-Michel Saive
3	Greece Greece	Kalinikos Kreanga
3	Croatia Croatia	Zoran Primorac

In the final, Vladimir Samsonov defeated Jean-Michel Saive 4-1.
In the quarterfinals were eliminated:

The German Timo Boll and the Austrians Chen Weixing and Werner Schlager failed in the round of 16.

Double

space	country	player
1	Austria Austria	Werner Schlager / Karl Jindrak
2	Belarus 1995 Belarus / Greece Greece	Vladimir Samsonov / Kalinikos Kreanga
3	Germany Germany	Timo Boll / Christian Süß
3	Russia Russia	Alexei Smirnow / Dmitri Masunow

Werner Schlager and Karl Jindrak won the final 4-2 against Wladimir Samsonow and Kalinikos Kreanga.

Results Mixed

space	country	player
1	Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro / Lithuania Lithuania	Aleksandar Karakašević / Rūta Budiene
2	Austria Austria / Belarus Belarus 1995	Chen Weixing / Viktoria Pavlovitch
3	Austria Austria	Werner Schlager / Liu Jia
3	Russia Russia / Hungary Hungary	Alexei Smirnow / Krisztina Tóth

Others

Timo Boll stayed away from the award ceremony for the bronze medal in doubles. This was criticized by those responsible for the DTTB.
Hans-Joachim Tamms (Stralsund) and Rainer Mushold (Dormagen) represented Germany as referees.
15 year old Mikkel Hindersson (Denmark) was the youngest participant.
The ETTU Congress decided to introduce the Champions League for women from the 2005/05 season. For men, the number of participants will be increased to 16 teams.

literature

Report from the EM, magazine tischtennis , 2005/4 pp. 8–34

Individual evidence

↑ Dansk Bordtennis Union: Playing Area . Retrieved October 22, 2008.
↑ Dansk Bordtennis Union: Participants / Player profiles . Retrieved October 22, 2008.
↑ ^a ^b megaspin.net: Hosts Denmark are Euro Team Champions . Retrieved October 22, 2008.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d megaspin.net: Samsonov is European Champion again . Retrieved October 22, 2008.
↑ ^a ^b ITTF.com Statistics: European Championship Aarhus Denmark 2005 . Retrieved October 22, 2008.

Web links

Entry in ITTF database
Team competition men (accessed on January 13, 2016) ( Memento from June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 960 kB)
Team competition women (accessed on January 13, 2016) ( Memento from June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 824 kB)
Individual competition men (accessed on January 13, 2016) ( Memento from June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 768 kB)
Individual competition women (accessed on January 13, 2016) ( Memento from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 572 kB)
Double competition men (accessed on January 13, 2016) ( Memento from June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 615 kB)
Double competition women (accessed on January 13, 2016) ( Memento from June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 433 kB)
Mixed competition (accessed on January 13, 2016) ( Memento from June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 726 kB)

[1] Dansk Bordtennis Union: Playing Area . Retrieved October 22, 2008.

[2] Dansk Bordtennis Union: Participants / Player profiles . Retrieved October 22, 2008.

[megaspin_result_team-3] spin.net: Hosts Denmark are Euro Team Champions . Retrieved October 22, 2008.

[megaspin_result_indiv-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d megaspin.net: Samsonov is European Champion again . Retrieved October 22, 2008.

[ittf_stat_result-5] ITTF.com Statistics: European Championship Aarhus Denmark 2005 . Retrieved October 22, 2008.