Table tennis world championship 2003
The 48th table tennis world championship took place from May 19 to May 25, 2003 in Paris-Bercy (France). For the first time, only individual competitions were held. Around 90,000 spectators at the Palais Omnisports made for almost Chinese standards in terms of the number of spectators.
Overview
For the first time since 1997, a non-Chinese player, Werner Schlager from Austria, won a gold medal. Schlager defeated the defending champion Wang Liqin (China) in the quarter-finals after 2: 3 and 6: 10 deficit 4: 3, in the semifinals the highly regarded Olympic champion from Sydney 2000, Kong Linghui with 14:12 in the seventh set, before he did in the final against the aggressively defending Korean Joo Se-hyuk, who surprisingly advanced into the final, won 4-2.
The competitions in men's doubles, women singles, women doubles and mixed were dominated by the Chinese players. Only Korea showed with two third places in the women's and men's doubles that it was not a matter of Chinese championships. This World Cup was not successful for Germany. In the third round at the latest, all German players were eliminated.
There were many surprising results. With the Korean Joo Se-hyuk, number 61 in the world rankings came into the final of the men's singles, who is also a defender. The two-time world champion Jan-Ove Waldner , who had been injured for a long time, was eliminated in the first round against the Greek Konstantin Papageorgiou, 372th in the world rankings.
In the run-up to the World Cup, it had to be clarified whether France would allow the players from China, Singapore, Hong Kong or Canada to enter, given that the SARS epidemic was acute in these countries at the time . Finally, the French health minister approved the entry.
Cutting off the Germans
Men's singles
Timo Boll initially defeated Jin Ju (Dominican Republic), but failed in the second round 2: 4 to Qiu Yike (China). Jörg Roßkopf brought it just as farafter defeating Belgian Marc Closset and the subsequent defeat against Slobodan Grujić (Serbia-Montenegro). Also Torben Wosik was eliminated in round second he won against Mads Sorensen (Denmark) and lost to Toshio Tasaki (Japan).
Two German players reached the third round. Lars Hielscher prevailed against Marton Marsi (Hungary) and the former European champion Zoran Primorac (Croatia). He lost 3: 4 against the Austrian defender Chen Weixing .
Zoltan Fejer-Konnerth won against Geir Erlandsen (Norway) and the Waldner conqueror Konstantin Papageorgiou (Greece). Then the Taiwanese Chuang Chih-Yuan made for the end.
Bastian Steger was eliminated in the first round against Leung Chu Yan (Hong Kong).
Ladies singles
Even the women did not get past the third round.
Jie Schöpp prevailed against Huang Yi-Hua (Taiwan) and Lily Yip (USA) before she was defeated by Guo Yue (China). Nicole Struse came just as farwith victories over Wang Yu (Italy) and Silvija Erdelji (Serbia) and the subsequent defeat against Zhang Yining (China). Also Elke Wosik survived by beating Carole Grundisch (France) and Li Nan (China) two rounds. Then she failed because of Gao Jun (USA).
Tanja Hain-Hofmann came into round 2 without a fight, where she waseliminatedagainst Wiktoryja Paulowitsch (Belarus). Laura Stumper won against Fabiola Isabel Ramos Portiillo (Venezuela) and lost to Guo Yan (China).
Men's doubles
All three doubles survived the first round. The furthest came Boll / Fejer-Konnerth , who initially won against Martin Bratanov / Damien Delobbe (Belgium) and Adrian Crișan / Vasile Florea (Romania). In the second round they were eliminated against the Chinese Wang Liqin / Yan Sen of. For Roßkopf / Hielscher after the victory over Robert Gardos / Presslmayer (Austria) came the end in round two, where they lost to the Koreans Oh Sang-eun / Kim Taek-soo . Wosik / Steger prevailed against Maksim Shmyryev / Sergei Andrianov (Russia). Then they lost to Werner Schlager / Karl Jindrak (Austria).
Ladies doubles
Both German doubles survived the first round and then retired.
Struse / Wosik lost tothe Russians Svetlana Ganina / Irina Palina after their victory over Alena Vachovcová / Katerina Penkakova (Czech Republic). Hain-Hofmann / Stumper won against Gordana Plavsic / Biljana Golic (Yugoslavia) and lost against Li Jia Wei / Jing Jun Hong (Singapore).
Mixed
For Steger / Stumper it was already the end of round one, as they lost to Hou Yinghao / Fan Ying (China). The couple Wosik / Wosik survived the first two rounds against the Japanese Seiya Kishikawa / Ai Fukuhara and the Koreans Yoon Jae-young / Jun Hye-kyung , but were stopped by Liu Guozheng / Bai Yang (China) in the second round . Hielscher / Hain-Hofmann prevailed against Panagiotis Gionis / Maria Mirou (Greece), but not against Ryu Seung-min / Suk Eun-mi (Korea).
ITTF resolutions
The ITTF Congress (Annual General Meeting) dealt with the following requests from members:
- Change of the service rule: When serving, the player must pull his free arm aside as soon as the ball has left the server's hand. The request of the DTTB and the Chinese TT Federation that the ball should be thrown above head height or at least 50 cm high was rejected.
- The 2006 World Cup was given to Bremen. Serbia and Montenegro withdrew its application.
- The Chinese TT Association had planned an application in advance to play a set again until 21. However, China then waived this application.
The ITTF Advisory Board, Board of Directors, changed the mode for the Team World Cup. In the future, the participating teams will be divided into 5 divisions, with twelve teams competing in two groups of six in the first four divisions. The remaining teams play in the fifth division. Only the teams in the first division can become world champions. The best eight teams from the previous World Cup are directly qualified for the first division. The remaining four places are awarded based on the world ranking of the top three players in a nation.
useful information
- The players Hani Al-Hammadi (Yemen) and Nabeel S Al-Magahwi (Saudi Arabia) were disqualified by the ITTF for the rest of 2003 because they did not play against the Israeli Gay Elenski.
- A controversial referee decision in the double competition between Cheung Yuk / Leung Chu Yan (Hong Kong) and Kim Taek-soo / Oh Sang-eun (South Korea) caused a riot. The game was then canceled and the two players from Hong Kong were disqualified.
- Philately: The French Post Office used a special postmark dated May 19, 2003 in Paris. In the People's Republic of China, special postmarks in Nanjing (南京市); and Handan (邯郸 市: Hándān shì) these world championships. In Austria, on September 25, 2003, a postage stamp was issued in honor of the 2003 table tennis world champion Werner Schlager ( Michel catalog no. 2446) in an edition of 700,000 at 0.55 euros. There was also a first day special cancellation in 1150 Vienna and a special cancellation on September 26, 2003 in 2320 Schwechat.
Results
| competition | rank | winner |
|---|---|---|
| Men's singles | 1. | Werner Schlager - AUT |
| 2. | Joo Se-hyuk - COR | |
| 3. | Kalinikos Kreanga - GRE | |
| 3. | Kong Linghui - CHN | |
| Ladies singles | 1. | Wang Nan - CHN |
| 2. | ZHANG Yining - CHN | |
| 3. | Li Ju - CHN | |
| 3. | Tamara Boroš - CRO | |
| Men's doubles | 1. | Wang Liqin / Yan Sen - CHN |
| 2. | Kong Linghui / Wang Hao - CHN | |
| 3. | Ma Lin / Qin Zhijian - CHN | |
| 3. | Kim Taek Soo / Oh Sang Eun - KOR | |
| Ladies doubles | 1. | Wang Nan / Zhang Yining - CHN |
| 2. | Niu Jianfeng / Guo Yue - CHN | |
| 3. | Li Ju / Li Jia - CHN | |
| 3. | Suk Eun-mi / Lee Eun-Sil - COR | |
| Mixed | 1. | Wang Nan / Ma Lin - CHN |
| 2. | Bai Yang / Liu Guozheng - CHN | |
| 3. | Niu Jianfeng / Qin Zhijian - CHN | |
| 3. | Li Nan / Wang Hao - CHN |
Medal table
| rank | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 People's Republic of China
|
4th | 4th | 6th | 14th |
| 2 |
 Austria
|
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 |
 South Korea
|
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 4th |
 Greece
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4th |
 Croatia
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 5 | 5 | 10 | 20th | |
literature
Web links
- Entry in ITTF database
- ITTF report ( accessed June 5, 2011)