Vincent Purkart

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Vincent Purkart (born June 25, 1936 in Montargis , † November 11, 2015 ) was a French table tennis player . He was mainly known for his table tennis shows.

Career

Purkart only started playing table tennis when he was 15 years old. At the national French championships he won a total of seven titles, twice in singles (1964, 1965), four times in doubles (1962, 1964, 1965, 1969) and once in mixed (1977). Most of the time, however, he was overshadowed by Jacques Secrétin , to whom he was defeated seven times in a row in the final. In the 1970s, Purkart played for the club Kremlin Bicetre Paris.

Purkart was nominated for world championships three times, namely in 1963 , 1965 and 1967 . In 1965 he took first place in the French rankings.

From 1970 he presented numerous table tennis shows worldwide with Jacques Secrétin before he stopped in December 1996 for health reasons.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
FRA  World Championship  1967  Stockholm  SWE   last 64  no participants  no participants  15th 
FRA  World Championship  1965  Ljubljana  YUG   last 128  last 64  Agony  19th 
FRA  World Championship  1963  Prague  TCH   Agony  last 128  no participants  17th 

Web links

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  • Au revoir, Monsieur Purkart , DTS magazine , 1997/3 page 43

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Décès de Vincent Purkart . L'Équipe , November 12, 2015.
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1976/1 p. 18
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1965/22 West issue p. 6
  4. ↑ Vincent Purkart Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 14, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Purkart, Vincent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Montargis
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 2015