William Henzell

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William Henzell at the 2008 Olympic Games

William Henzell (born March 23, 1982 in Bedford Park , South Australia ) is an Australian table tennis player who has performed internationally since 1999. So far (2016) he has participated in ten world championships and three Olympic Games .

Career

William Henzell was born in Bedford Park, a suburb of Adelaide , in 1982 . He made his first international appearance in 1999 at an ITTF Pro Tour tournament in Melbourne .

He was most successful at the Commonwealth tournaments and at the Oceania Championships . At Oceania Championships he won nine gold, two silver and four bronze medals. In 2004 he came to the semifinals of the Commonwealth Championships. In 2006 he reached the final of the Commonwealth Games in singles, which he lost against the Indian Kamal Sharath Achanta . From 2001 to 2012 William Henzell was represented at ten world championships , but never came close to medal ranks.

In 2004, William Henzell qualified for the first time to take part in the Olympic Games . Here he defeated the American Khoa Nguyen in the individual , but then lost to the Austrian Chen Weixing . The doubles with David Zalcberg won in the first round against Massimiliano Mondello / Yang Min (Italy) and then lost to the Dutch Trinko Keen / Danny Heister .

Also in 2008 he reached the second round by winning in the preliminary round against Idir Khourta (Algeria) and in round one over the Swede Jens Lundqvist in the individual, where he was eliminated against Yoon Jae-young from South Korea. With the team he came in 13th.

In 2012 he even survived two rounds in the individual. He won against Ádám Pattantyús (Hungary) and João Monteiro (Portugal), then ended up against Vladimir Samsonov from Belarus. With the team he came in ninth.

In 2008 William Henzell was inducted into the Australian Table Tennis Hall of Fame. In October 2012 he was ranked 90th in the ITTF world rankings .

In the mid-1990s he moved to Sweden, where he joined the Kalmar association and later Lyckerby. In 2006 he moved to Germany to FC Tegernheim, where he played in the 2nd Bundesliga South and made a significant contribution to winning the championship in the 2007/08 season (Tegernsee then renounced promotion to the 1st BL). In 2011 he left Tegernheim.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
OUT Commonwealth Championship 2004 Kuala Lumpur MAS Semifinals
OUT Commonwealth Games 2006 Melbourne OUT silver
OUT ITTF Pro Tour 2014 Sydney OUT Semifinals last 16
OUT ITTF Pro Tour 2011 Stockholm SWE last 64
OUT ITTF Pro Tour 2007 Stockholm SWE last 32
OUT ITTF Pro Tour 2007 catfish AUT last 64
OUT ITTF Pro Tour 2006 Warsaw POLE last 64
OUT ITTF Pro Tour 2006 Belgrade SRB last 32 last 16
OUT ITTF Pro Tour 2006 Velenje SVN last 64
OUT ITTF Pro Tour 1999 Melbourne OUT last 32 last 16
OUT OCEANIA Championships 2010 Auckland NZL gold gold gold 1
OUT OCEANIA Championships 2006 Geelong OUT gold Semifinals gold 1
OUT OCEANIA Championships 2004 Whangarei NZL gold gold Semifinals 2
OUT OCEANIA Championships 2002 Suva FIJ Semifinals Semifinals 2
OUT Oceania Cup 2011 Adelaide OUT gold
OUT Olympic games 2012 London CLOSELY last 32 9
OUT Olympic games 2008 Beijing CHN last 64 13
OUT Olympic games 2004 Athens GRE last 64 last 32
OUT World Championship 2012 Dortmund GER 35
OUT World Championship 2011 Rotterdam NED last 128 Agony last 64
OUT World Championship 2010 Moscow RUS 50
OUT World Championship 2009 Yokohama JPN last 128 last 64 last 64
OUT World Championship 2008 Guangzhou CHN 43
OUT World Championship 2007 Zagreb CRO last 128 no participants last 64
OUT World Championship 2006 Bremen GER 37
OUT World Championship 2004 Doha QAT 37
OUT World Championship 2003 Paris FRA Agony Agony Agony
OUT World Championship 2001 Osaka JPN Agony last 64 last 128 45
OUT World cup 2014 Dusseldorf GER 17th to 20th space
OUT World cup 2013 Verviers BEL 17th to 20th space
OUT World cup 2012 Liverpool CLOSELY 17th place
OUT World cup 2011 Paris FRA 17th place
OUT World cup 2011 Magdeburg GER 11th place
OUT World cup 2007 Barcelona ESP 13-16 space
OUT World cup 2006 Paris FRA 13-16 space
OUT World cup 2005 Liege BEL 13-16 space

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait (accessed October 13, 2016)
  2. ↑ World ranking list ( Memento from October 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on October 13, 2016)
  3. ↑ Ian Marshall: More Than A Subtle Difference , report of October 21, 2005 on ittf.com ( Memento of December 21, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed October 13, 2016)
  4. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2006/8, pages 43 + 45
  5. ↑ Table tennis archive of Hans-Albert Meyer (accessed on October 13, 2016)
  6. ↑ Does the TTC perform its masterpiece on the weekend? ( Memento of October 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed October 13, 2016)
  7. ^ William Henzell results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed October 13, 2016)

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SURNAME Henzell, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Bedford Park