2012 Table Tennis European Championships

The 31 Table Tennis Championship took place from 17 to 21 October 2012 in Herning (Denmark) instead. Venue was the Jyske Bank Boxen arena.

Only Timo Boll was able to defend his title. He was the third time in a row and the sixth time overall European champion in singles. The women's singles won the Belarusian Wiktoryja Paulitch. In doubles, won the Austrian Robert Gardos / Daniel Habesohn and the Romanians Daniela Dodean / Elizabeta Samara.

For Germany there were two bronze medals, namely, by the women's doubles Kristin Silver Iron / Jiaduo Wu and the men's doubles Dimitrij Ovtcharov / Vladimir Samsonov.

For the first time, no team competitions were held, as in accordance with a decision of the ETTU Congress in 2010 from 2012 in even years only the individual competitions will be held.

Results

Gentlemen

Individual competition

  • Timo Boll: bye, 4-0 win over Tomas Konečný (Czech Republic), 4-0 against Yaroslav Zhmudenko (Ukraine ), 4-2 win over Daniel Górak (Poland), 4-1 win over Andrei Gaćina (Croatia ), 4-1 win over Adrian Crisan (Romania ), 4-1 win over Tan Ruiwu (Croatia )
  • Ruwen Filus: bye, 4-2 against Jonathan Groth (Denmark), 4-2 against Liam Pitchford (England), 0-4 against Vladimir Samsonov ( Belarus )
  • Patrick Baum: bye, 4-0 win over Li Ahmet (Turkey), 4-1 win over Kalinikos Kreanga (Greece ), disqualified against Adrian Crisan (Romania )
  • Dimitrij Ovtcharov: bye, 4-0 win over Robin Devos (Belgium ), 4-2 win over Carlos Machado (Spain ), 4-1 against Tiago Apolonia (Portugal ), 3:4 against Tan Ruiwu (Croatia )
  • Bastian Steger: bye, 4-2 against Cioti Constantin (Romania ), 4-2 win over Bora Vang (Turkey), 4-3 against Gionis Panagiotis (Greece ), 4-0 against Vladimir Samsonov ( Belarus ), 1:4 against Tan Ruiwu (Croatia )
  • Christian Suss: bye, 4-0 against Sas Lasan (Slovenia ), 2:4 against João Monteiro (Portugal )
  • Patrick Franziska: Group stage ( 3-0 Linor Citaku (Kosovo), 1-3 against Daniel Reed (England), 3-1 win over Tomas Tregler (Czech Republic) ), 4:3 Aleksandar Karakasevic (Serbia ), 4-1 Werner Schlager ( Austria ), 2:4 against Tan Ruiwu (Croatia )

Doubles competition

  • Dimitrij Ovtcharov / Vladimir Samsonov ( Belarus ): 3-2 against Tan Ruiwu / Wang Zeng Yi (Croatia / Poland), 3-1 victory over Paul drink Hall / Liam Pitchford (England), 4-0 against Tiago Apolonia / João Monteiro (Portugal ), 2:4 against Daniel Habesohn / Robert Gardos ( Austria )

Ladies

Individual competition

  • Wu Jiaduo: bye, 4-2 against Monika Pietkiewicz (Poland), 4-3 victory over Cynthia Bernadette Szocs (Romania ), 2:4 against Xue Li ( France)
  • Zhenqi Barthel: bye, 4-2 against Katarzyna Grzybowska (Poland ), 1:4 against Georgina Pota (Hungary )
  • Kristin Silver Iron: bye, 4-0 Kateřina Pěnkavová (Czech Republic), 4-1 win over Aljaksandra Prywalawa ( Belarus ), 4-1 win over Shen Yanfei (Spain ), 1:4 against Liu Jia ( Austria )
  • Irene Ivancan: bye, 4-2 against Galia Dvorak (Spain ), 4-0 against Nikoleta Stefanova (Italy ), 2:4 against Daniela Dodean (Romania )
  • Sabine Winter: Group stage ( 3-0 Corinna Whitaker (Scotland ), 3-2 against Egle Stuckyte (Lithuania ), Ekaterina Guseva 3-0 (Russia) ), 4-2 against Amelie Solja ( Austria ), 4-1 Li Jie (Netherlands), 1:4 against Matilda Ekholm (Sweden)

Doubles competition

  • Wu Jiaduo / Kristin Silver Iron: 3-2 against Ivanka Angelova / Asya Kasabova (Bulgaria), 3-0 Kateřina Pěnkavová / Vacenovska Iveta (Czech Republic), 4-2 win over Wiktoryja Paulitch / Aljaksandra Prywalawa ( Belarus ), 3:4 against Elizabeta Samara / Daniela Dodean (Romania )
  • Petrissa Solja / Sabine Winter 3-0 win against Yana Noskova / Troshneva Elena (Russia), 2:3 against Katarzyna Grzybowska / Natalia Partyka (Poland )
  • Irene Ivancan / Polina Mikhaylova (Russia): 2:3 against Camelia POstoacă / Bernadette Cynthia Szocs (Romania )

ETTU Congress

On the parallel to the games taking place ETTU Congress, outgoing President Stefano Bosi (Italy ) was re-elected. In contrast, the German Eberhard Scholer resigned as Vice President. He was defeated in a vote of Frenchman Jean -François Kahn.

Find out more

  • The longest game played Bastian Steger and Panagiotis Gionis (Greece ), the Steger won 79 minutes.
  • Patrick Baum was disqualified after his victory over Romanian Adrian Crisan, because he had used an illegal bat pad.
Table Tennis European Championships Kristin Silbereisen Patrick Baum (table tennis) Jens Lundqvist Aleksandar Karakašević Marcos Freitas Georgina Póta Li Jie (table tennis) 2008 Table Tennis European Championships 2009 Table Tennis European Championships 2010 Table Tennis European Championships 2011 Table Tennis European Championships 2013 Table Tennis European Championships
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