Andreas Vevera

Andreas Vevera (born 1971 ) is an Austrian table tennis player. In the Summer Paralympics in Beijing in 2008 he won a gold medal in table tennis singles.

Life

Vevera is a paraplegic since a motor boat accident in May 1988 and is in a wheelchair. During a holiday in the Mediterranean he had chartered a motor boat, with which he sat up on a sandbar. His father was able to save his life, but he suffered in the accident, a broken neck, legs and stomach which have since completely, arms and neck partially paralyzed. His football career, he was a striker for Wiener Sport - Club, was completed. In addition to the pain, the injury also caused respiratory and circulatory problems, and he had in months of convalescence so obvious things like breathing, eating, drinking, dressing, and writing to learn or relearn new.

A new occupation he found as a secretary in an integrated school with 100 disabled and 200 non-disabled children. Sporty, he focused in the following on the table tennis games. The right hand is in the A-team of the Austrian national team and plays for the counterparties located in Klosterneuburg BSV White yard. In October 2006, he was at the World Championships in Switzerland World Cup champions and thereby No. 1 in the world rankings in the Handicap Class 1 In the Summer Paralympics 2008 he won gold against the Koreans Jae- Kwan Cho (Silver) and Hae -Kon Lee (bronze).

Achievements

  • Paralympics winner: 2008
  • European Champions: 2007, 2011
  • Vice World Champion: 2006
  • European runners-up: 2009
  • Vice - team European Champion: 2007
  • 3rd place World Cup: 2010
  • 3rd Place Team Championship: 2009, 2011, 2013
  • 4th place Olympic team: 2008, 2012
  • 4th Place Team World Cup: 2006, 2010
  • 5th Olympics: 2012
  • 5th place European Championships: 2013
  • Tetra Open Champion: 2006 (biggest tetra- TT tournament in the world )
  • 6 -times Austrian Champion in Single: 1992, 1994, 1998, 2008, 2012, 2013
  • 6 -times Austrian champion in mixed doubles: 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
  • 4-times Austrian Vice - state champion in singles: 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011
  • 3-time Austrian national champion runner-up in the mixed doubles: 2003, 2006, 2013
  • 5x Lower Austrian national champion: 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
  • Niederösterreichischer Vice State Champion: 2007
  • 4-fold Niederösterreichischer Mixed Doubles National Champion: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
  • 3-fold Niederösterreichischer double national champion: 2005, 2007, 2011
  • 3-fold Niederösterreichischer Vice - double national champion: 1998, 1999, 2013

Winner of several events at home and abroad and Int. World Ranking Tournaments:

  • 5x Slovenia Open: 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013
  • 4x Slovakia Open: 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011
  • 2x Austria Open: 1999, 2008
  • 2x Hungary Open: 2006, 2009
  • 2x Italy Team Open: 2012, 2013
  • 1x German Open: 2006
  • 1x Croatia Open 2007
  • 1x Czech Open 2010
  • 1x Italy Open: 2013
  • 1x Slovakia Team Open: 2006
  • 1x Open Romania Team: 2010

No. 1 in the world rankings: 1530 days

  • No. 1 in the world rankings: 2006, 2007, 2013 ( not continuous )
  • No. 1 in the world rankings: 2008 to 2011 (solid)

Statistics

  • Int. Tournament Win: 24
  • Int. Final Games: 51
  • Int. Podiums: 75
  • No. 1 in the world rankings: 1530 days
  • Top 3 in the world rankings: 2465 days
  • Ö- National Champion: 12
  • NE - national champion: 12
  • European and World Championships, Olympic medals: 10

Awards

  • Niederösterreichischer -disabled athlete of the year in 2006 and 2008
  • Golden Party Badge of NÖTTV 2006
  • Golden ÖTTV of Honor 2008
  • Golden Badge of Honour Country NE 2008
  • Silver Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria: 2007
  • Gold Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria: 2008
  • 3rd place Niederösterreichischer -disabled athletes in 2010
  • 2nd place Niederösterreichischer -disabled athletes in 2011, 2013
  • 2nd place NÖN - Klosterneuburg athletes elections 2011
Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Cervical vertebrae Wiener Sport-Club
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