Tu Dai Yong

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Tu Dai Yong (born January 17, 1968 ) is a Chinese-born Swiss table tennis player . She finished second at the European Championships in 1990 and took part in the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Career

She grew up under the name Dai Yong in the Chinese province of Gansu . At the end of the 1980s she was a member of the national table tennis team and was scheduled to take part in the 1989 World Cup in Dortmund. In the spring of 1989 she moved to Switzerland and married the table tennis player Tu Thien Bac, an economics student from Vietnam who had already become a naturalized student. When she married, she automatically received Swiss citizenship and was therefore eligible to play in Switzerland.

Laszlo Földy soon became aware of her and brought the left-hander to his club TTC Liebrüti. Here she has been playing in the men's team since the 1990/91 season and has consistently achieved positive results. At the same time, she strengthened the women's team from Wettstein Basel in the 2001/02 and 2002/03 game series, with which she became Swiss champion in 2003. At the National Championships , Tu Dai Yong won seven titles in singles from 1990 to 2001, six in doubles with Theresia Földy and seven in mixed with her husband.

She took part in European championships four times from 1990 to 1996 . She achieved her greatest success in 1990 when she won silver in the individual by eliminating Katja Nolten (Germany), Pernilla Petterson (Sweden), Valentina Popová (USSR), Csilla Bátorfi (Hungary) and Otilia Bădescu (Romania) before eliminating them in the final of the Bulgarian Daniela Gergeltschewa was defeated.

In 1996 she qualified for participation in the Olympic Games . For the first time, and until today (2012), Switzerland was represented in table tennis at the Olympic Games. Tu Dai Yong went undefeated in the group matches against Bose Kaffo (Nigeria), Lyanne Kosaka (Brazil) and Emilia Ciosu (Romania). Only in the round of 16 did she lose to Nicole Struse from Germany.

At the World Championships in 1991 , 1995 and 1997 , she did not come close to medal ranks. In the ITTF world rankings , she was in 24th place from mid-1990 to mid-1991.

Private

Tu Dai Yong has a daughter.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
SUI European Championship 1996 Bratislava SVK Quarter finals
SUI European Championship 1994 Birmingham CLOSELY last 16
SUI European Championship 1992 Stuttgart GER last 16
SUI European Championship 1990 Gothenburg SWE silver
SUI EURO TOP12 1992 Vienna AUT 5
SUI EURO TOP12 1991 Hertogenbosch NED 9
SUI Olympic games 1996 Atlanta United States last 16 no participants
SUI World Championship 1997 Manchester CLOSELY last 64 last 32 Rd 2 35
SUI World Championship 1995 Tianjin CHN last 32 last 32 last 64 42
SUI World Championship 1991 Chiba City JPN last 32 last 64 Agony

literature

  • Erich L. Pohoralek: A 21 year old lady by the name of Dai Yong , DTS magazine , 1990/5 page 22
  • Niki Schärrer: Portrait: Tu Dai Yong - And suddenly Switzerland had a world-class player , TOPSPIN 2007/2008 issue 3, pages 18–19 Online (accessed on February 5, 2016) (PDF; 1.6 MB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1990/5, page 22
  2. ↑ World rankings 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) (accessed on January 7, 2012)
  3. ^ Tu Dai Yong results from ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed January 7, 2012)

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personal data
SURNAME Tu Dai Yong
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dai Yong (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss table tennis player of Chinese descent
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1968