Zoltán Berczik

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Zoltán Berczik [ ˈzoltaːn ˈbɛrtsik ] (born August 7, 1937 in Novi Sad , † January 11, 2011 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian table tennis player .

He was one of the late 1950s to the best European table tennis players and won his emphasizes athletic game, the first two titles in the table tennis European Championships .

Berczik started his career as a defender . With the advent of topspin in the late 1950s, he switched his game to attack.

National successes

At the Hungarian championships from 1959 to 1964 he won the individual title without interruption. He won the double competition in 1959 with László Földy , 1960 and 1961 with Ferenc Sidó , 1962 with Miklós Péterfy, 1963 with János Faházi and 1967 with István Jónyer . In mixed he won in 1957 with Gizella Farkas and in 1960 with Éva Kóczián.

He won the team championships in 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962 and 1964 with the club Vasútépítő Törekvés SK and in 1965, 1966, 1967 and 1969 with Bp. Vasutas SC.

World championships

Berczik took part in world championships five times : in 1957 he won silver with the Hungarian team. This succeeded again at the 1959 World Cup , where he also achieved bronze in doubles (with László Földy) and in mixed (with Gizella Lantos-Gervai-Farkas ). At the 1961 World Cup he was third with the team and runner-up in doubles with Ferenc Sidó . In 1963 and 1965 he could no longer win any medals.

European championships

At the European Youth Championship in Stuttgart in 1955, he came in doubles with Sandor Ujvaari to the final, in which he was defeated by the German Franz-Joseph Wedig / Roland Süßmann .

He achieved his greatest successes at the European Championships in 1958 and 1960 . Here he was European champion in individual and with the Hungarian team. Thus he was the first European champion since the start of the European Championship. In 1958 he won the mixed competition with Gizella Lantos, and in 1960 the double competition with Ferenc Sidó . At the EM in 1964 he reached the singles final, which he lost to Kjell Johansson , and the semi-finals in doubles.

Trainer and author

From 1969 he was the national coach for the Hungarian national team. During his tenure, Tibor Klampár / István Jónyer became world champions in doubles in 1971. After a stay in Japan, he became coach of the club Vasutas SC Budapest in 1985. In the 1990s he wrote a series of articles on table tennis tactics for coaches:

  • 1992: Tactics (2): Determining the tactics for a match
  • 1992: Tactics (3): The tactics of the offensive player
  • 1993: Tactics (5): Exercises for offensive players
  • 1993: Tactics (6): Exercises for offensive players
  • 1994: Tactics (7)
  • 1994: Tactics (8)

1996 Berczik ended his coaching career.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
HUN  European Championship  1964  Malmo  SWE   silver  Semifinals     
HUN  European Championship  1960  Zagreb  YUG   gold  gold  Quarter finals  1
HUN  European Championship  1958  Budapest  HUN   gold  Quarter finals  gold  1
HUN  European Youth Championship (Juniors)  1955  Ruit-Stuttgart  FRG     silver     
HUN  World Championship  1965  Ljubljana  YUG   last 32  last 32  last 64  9 
HUN  World Championship  1963  Prague  TCH   last 16  last 32  last 64  9 
HUN  World Championship  1961  Beijing  CHN   last 128  silver  last 64  3
HUN  World Championship  1959  Dortmund  FRG   Quarter finals  Semifinals  Semifinals  2
HUN  World Championship  1957  Stockholm  SWE   Quarter finals  last 32  no participants  2

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://sportgeza.hu/sport/hirek/2011/01/11/elhunyt_berczik_zoltan/ (Hungarian) - accessed on January 11, 2011
  2. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2008/6 p. 28
  3. ↑ Zoltan Berczik 1937-2011 ( Memento from May 25, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on January 16, 2011)
  4. ↑ Journal DTS , 1974/18, pp. 16f
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1985/12, p. 45
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/10, p. 28
  7. ^ ITTF statistics ( Memento from March 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 4, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Berczik, Zoltán
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Novi Sad
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 2011
Place of death Budapest