Dragutin Å urbek
Dragutin Šurbek ( born August 8, 1946 in Zagreb, then Yugoslavia, now Croatia) belonged in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, to the best table tennis players in the world and was twice world champion in doubles.
Survey
Dragutin Šurbek 1968 in Lyon European champion in men's singles. In the years that followed a number of international titles and placings in duplicate and with the team. Šurbek was an offensive player who used topspin only to prepare and decide the rally with a hard forehand shot was looking for. He played in Yugoslavia at the clubs TTC Postar Zagreb and GSTK Vjesnik Zagreb and from 1977 for a few years in the German Bundesliga (TTC Calw, 1980-1982 ATSV Saarbrücken, then with TTC Esslingen in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga ). 1992 he managed a comeback when he qualified for participation at the Summer Olympics.
Šurbek is - obsessed with table tennis - in the positive sense. As a teenager, he was the - official - Six hours of exercise a day too little, he went with a friend through a window at night in the gym and continued to train at the beginning of his career he played for the Yugoslav national team. In the last years of his career he played - along with his son - for the Croatian national team.
Private
Šurbek has two sons with his wife Jelena. The younger also called Dragutin ( born November 8, 1977), he has repeatedly taken part in world championships and Croatia joined in 1998 by STK Zagreb in the 2nd Bundesliga team galaxy Lübeck and 2000 in the 1st Bundesliga to TTC Frickenhausen.
Achievements
Participation in World Table Tennis Championships
- 3rd place individual
- 3rd place with men's team
- 3rd place individual
- 3rd place doubles with Anton Stipancic
- 2nd place men's team
- 2nd double with Anton Stipancic
- 3rd place doubles with Anton Stipancic
- 3rd place individual
- 3rd place doubles with Anton Stipancic
Participation in European Championships
- 2nd place men's team
- 3rd place individual
- 3rd place doubles with Anton Stipancic
- 3rd place with men's team
- 3rd place doubles with Anton Stipancic
- 2nd double with Anton Stipancic
- 3rd place with men's team
- 1st place with double Zoran Kalinic
- 2nd place Mixed with Branka Batinić
- 3rd place men's doubles with Zoran Kalinic
- 3rd place Mixed with Branka Batinić
- Start of Croatia
Participation in the European ranking tournament top 12
Results from the ITTF database
Philately
The post office in Zagreb, Croatia used the following special:
February 4, 2002: Table Tennis European Championship in 2002, Šurbek Stipančić.