2008 Table Tennis European Championships

The 27th Table Tennis Championship ( officially: LIEBHERR European Table Tennis Championships 2008, in German LIEBHERR European Championships 2008) was held in St. Petersburg from 4 to 12 October 2008. It team, single and double competitions were conducted. Venue was the Sports and Concert Complex Peterburgski.

• 3.1 team
• 3.2 Single
• 3.3 double

Competition mode

In the team competition met in the newly introduced group stage the top 16 participating nations in four groups of four ( " Divisions Championships " ) to each other. Subsequently, the group first, and the second of each group played against each other in the knockout system for places one through eight. The Third to Fourth fought in the knock-out system for places 9 to 16

Similarly, the next- strong 16 nations were divided into four "Challenge " groups and then played in a knockout system for the positions 17 to 24 and 25 to 32 The remaining weakest nations were in the men's two " standard " groups divided. Here then for places 33 to 39, it went to the ladies there was only a "standard " group with six participants who were fighting for places 33 to 38.

In single and double the athletes started right in the knockout system.

Results Women

Team

The German ladies came in tenth place at the European Championships. The team of head coach Jörg Bitzigeio lost the placement match against Poland.

Final: Hungary Hungary - Netherlands Netherlands 0:3

Place game 5: Austria Austria - Spain 1:3

Place game 7: Czech Republic Czech Republic - Italy Italy 3-2

Place play- 9: Poland Poland - Germany Germany 3:1

In the German women's team following players were used: Wu Jiaduo Zhenqi Barthel, Kristin Silver iron, Amelie Solja. In Group C, the team against Romania and Serbia won 3-1, losing to Croatia 0-3. Because of the games the least gained, it was so in third place behind the tied ladies from Croatia and Romania. In the games for places 9 to 16 the team won against Belgium (3-0 ) and France ( 3-1 ). The match for third place went to Poland with 1:3 lost.

Singles

• Wu Jiaduo: defeat by Polina Mikhailova (Russia)
• Zhenqi Barthel: beating Petra Skabar (Slovenia ), Dana Hadačová (Czech Republic), losing to Wenling Tan Monfardini (Italy )
• Kristin Silver Iron: Sara Ramirez beating (Spain ), Katerina Penkavova (Czech Republic), losing to Liu Jia ( Austria )
• Amelie Solja: Victory against Eva Ódorová (Slovakia ), losing to Galia Dvorak (Spain )

Doubles

• Wu Jiaduo / Kristin Silver Iron: win against Alexandra Privalova / Magdalena Szczerkowska ( Belarus / Poland), Pernille Sondergaard / Therese Andersen ( Denmark / Norway), losing to Li Qian / Irina Kotichina ( Poland / Russia)
• Zhenqi Barthel / Tamara Boroš (Croatia ): Victory against Audrey Mattenet / Aurore Dessaint (France), Rūta Paškauskienė / Lina Misikonyte (Lithuania ), losing to Weranika Paulitch / Oksana Fadeeva ( Belarus / Russia)
• Amelie Solja / Tatyana Kostromina ( Belarus ): Victory against Marthe Nilsen / Aasebø Marthe Grutle (Norway ), Tanya Aenova / Jana Petrova (Bulgaria), Daniela Dodean / Elizabeta Samara ( Romania), defeat in the quarter-final against Wenling Tan Monfardini / Nikoleta Stefanova (Italy )

Results Men

The German player Timo Boll won in all three competitions, the gold medal and is the most successful player of the championship. In addition, he managed to three -fold title defense, which until then in the 50- year history of the European Championship no player or any player was still successful.

Team

Germany's table tennis men defended their team title at the European Championships 2008. 's Team national coach Richard Prause the player Timo Boll and Dimitrij Ovtcharov won in the final against Belarus 3-2. Third were the teams from Belgium and Austria.

Final: Germany Germany - Belarus Belarus 3:2

Place game 5: Russia Russia - Sweden Sweden 2:3

Place game 7: Romania Romania - Denmark Denmark 3:1

In the German men's team following players were used: Timo Boll, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Bastian Steger, Christian Suss, Patrick Baum. The team was undefeated in Group A first. It defeated France, Denmark and Hungary. In subsequent games for the places one through eight, it won against Russia ( 3-1 ), Austria ( 3-2 ) and Belarus ( 3-2 ).

Singles

Timo Boll defended his individual title in 2007 and won for the third time the European Championship in singles. In the final he beat Vladimir Samsonov, against whom he was previously still clearly inferior in the team competition. Third place went to the Austrian Robert Gardos and Werner Schlager.

• Timo Boll: victory against Oleg Kartuzovs (Latvia ), Lubomir Jancarik (Czech Republic), Marcos Freitas (Portugal ), Bojan TOKIĆ (Slovenia ), Michael Maze (Denmark), Werner Schlager ( Austria ), Vladimir Samsonov ( Belarus )
• Dimitrij Ovtcharov: Victory against Sergei Petrov (Estonia ), Carlos Machado (Spain ), Aleksandar Karakasevic (Serbia ), losing to Joao Monteiro (Portugal )
• Bastian Steger: Victory against Lucian Filimon (Romania ), Martin Monrad (Denmark), Pär Gerell (Sweden), defeat against Wladimir Samsonov ( Belarus )
• Patrick Baum: Victory against Finn Tugwell (Denmark), Cem Zeng (Turkey), losing to Jean -Michel Saive (Belgium )
• Christian Suss: defeat against Daniel Zwickl (Hungary )
• Zoltan Fejer - Konnerth: Victory against Reinis Burgis (Latvia ), defeat He Zhiwen (Spain )

Doubles

Despite a 1:3 residue in the final the Germans Timo Boll and Christian Suss could defend their title successfully. They won 4-3 against the duo Werner Schlager from Austria and Trinko Keen from the Netherlands.

• Timo Boll / Christian Suss: Victory against Onjan Serafimov / Andreas Tziambos (Cyprus), Constantin Cioti / Lucian Filimon (Romania ), Petr Korbel / Simoncik Josef (Czech Republic ), Jens Lundqvist / Pär Gerell (Sweden), Marcos Freitas / Tiago Apolonia ( Portugal), Werner Schlager / Trinko Keen ( Austria / Netherlands)
• Zoltan Fejer-Konnerth/Zoltan Lelke (Slovakia ): victory against Victor Sanchez / Enio Mendes (Spain / Portugal), losing to Ferenc Pazsy / Janos Jakab (Hungary )
• Patrick Baum / Daniel Habesohn ( Austria ): Defeat against Werner Schlager / Trinko Keen ( Austria / Netherlands)
• Dimitrij Ovtcharov / Bastian Steger: victory against Daniel Zwickl / David Zombori (Hungary ), Ronald Redjep / Andrej Gaćina (Croatia ), losing to Adrian Crisan / Andrei Filimon (Romania )