Zdenko Uzorinac

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Zdenko Uzorinac (born July 7, 1929 in Zagreb ; † June 10, 2005 ) was a Yugoslav and Croatian table tennis player and trainer, as well as a journalist and publicist. In particular, he has made a contribution to the presentation of the history of table tennis.

life and career

Uzorinac started playing table tennis in 1941 in the Hlask Zagreb club. He was a defender. He won several national titles and was represented at four world championships, namely 1948 , 1951 , 1955 and 1959 . His greatest success here was the bronze medal in 1951 with the team. With the club GSTK Zagreb he won the European Cup in 1961/62 .

Since 1955 Uzorinac wrote articles for various professional journals. He also published 13 books, mostly with historical content. His ITTF 1926-2001 - Table Tennis Legends , which was published on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the ITTF , has received a lot of attention . Here he wrote portraits and anecdotes about the greats of table tennis.

Uzorinac was a member of the International Association of Sports Journalists AIPS . In 1995 he received the ITTF's Award of Merit .

Journalistic work

Uzorinac's work ITTF 1926-2001 - Table Tennis Legends, which contains photos, portraits and anecdotes about the most famous table tennis players, received a lot of attention, was often discussed and praised .

However, there are also critical comments. Gerald Gurney complains that Uzorinac got table tennis from his work . The Early Years (1989) photos used without permission. In addition, there is no source for Uzorinac's claim that table tennis was mentioned as early as 1884 in a catalog of the sporting goods manufacturer FH Ayres Company.

Fonts

  • 1973: From London 1926 to Sarajevo 1973 (Od Londona 1926 Do Sarajeva 1973), History of the World Championships, Serbian-Croatian language
  • 1978: Fifty Years of Yugoslav Table Tennis
  • 1997: Table Tennis ABC , Aspects of Coaching
  • 2001: ITTF 1926-2001 - Table Tennis legends , ISBN 2-940312-00-1

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
YUG  World Championship  1959  Dortmund  FRG   last 256  no participants  no participants   
YUG  World Championship  1951  Vienna  AUT   last 64  last 32  no participants  3
YUG  World Championship  1948  Wembley  CLOSELY   last 128  no participants  no participants  5 

literature

  • Gerald N. Gurney: Table Tennis Legends , The Table Tennis Collector, Issue 26, June 2001, pp. 6-7
  • Žarko Susič: Obituary (in Croatian) (accessed on April 2, 2011; PDF; 3.6 MB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book review ( memento of July 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) by US historian Tim Boggan (accessed November 29, 2013)
  2. ↑ Gerald N. Gurney: Table Tennis Legends , The Table Tennis Collector, Issue 26, June 2001, p. 6.
  3. ↑ Zdenko Uzorinac Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 16, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Uzorinac, Zdenko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav table tennis player and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagreb
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 2005