Werner Schlager

Werner Schlager ( born September 28, 1972 in Wiener Neustadt ) is a table tennis player from Austria.

Career

Schlager began five years ago with the table tennis game. In his father (Rudolf hit ) and his brother (Harald hit ), who was also top Austrian players, he found his training partner. After numerous very good placements with single and double tournaments, as well as with his team SVS Lower Austria, he was in Paris in 2003 Individual World Champion. He was the first Austrian since Richard Bergmann in 1937, to have managed this. At the same time it also meant the leap to the top of world rankings.

2003 hit in China was voted " most popular foreign sports ". In Austria, he was awarded the Austrian Sportsman of the Year and was honored with its own stamp - it is the first Austrian stamp dedicated to a living person. Schlager is known as sophisticated tactician and dangerous Aufschläger. He scored points often due to its richly varied premiums by fast topspin from forehand as backhand close to the table. Werner Schlager is Butterfly player and currently plays (2008 ) with the created especially for him Butterfly Blade " W. Schlager Carbon ( FL) ". On the forehand and backhand he plays each a Butterfly Tenergy 05 ( 2.1 mm sponge thickness). In 2008 he took part for the fourth time in the Olympic Games, but was defeated in the team competition, together with Chen Weixing and Robert Gardos just in the battle for the bronze medal.

2009 called hit a table tennis center in Schwechat near Vienna to life, the Werner Schlager Academy. This training center was awarded the contract to hold the Table Tennis Championships 2013.

Achievements

Winners of the European Champions League: 2007/2008
Single: World Champion 2003, 3rd place World Cup 1999, 2nd 2009 European Championships, 3rd place EM 2002, EM 2008 3rd place, 3rd place 2010 European Championships
Double: European Championship 2005 ( with Karl Jindrak [ AUT ] ), 2nd place 2008 European Championship ( with Trinko Keen [ NED ] ), 3rd place European Championships 1998, 2000, 2002 (with Karl Jindrak [ AUT ] ) and 2007 ( with Patrick Chila [ FRA ] )
Mixed: European Champion 2003 ( with Krisztina Tóth [ HUN ] ), 3rd place EM 2002 and EM 2005 ( each with Liu Jia [ AUT ] )
Team: 3rd place EM 2002, EM 2005 2nd place, 3rd place 2008 European Championship, 3rd place 2011 European Championships, 4th place 2008 Olympics several European League and Champions League finals.
Winner in the European ranking tournament Europe Top 12 in 2000 and 2008
20 Austrian Championship title

Awards

2000: Golden Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria
2003: Austrian Sportsman of the Year
2003: Gold Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria
2003: A 55 - cent stamp with the image of Werner Schlager appear on September 28, he is the first Austrian athletes on a postage stamp.

Clubs

Allround Wiener Neustadt
ASKO Grimm stone
ASKO TTV Hornstein
Wiener Sport Club
SV Schwechat
Eden Vienna
SVS Lower Austria

Private

Schlager lives with Bettina Müller, with whom he has a son and a daughter.

Results from the ITTF database

Philately

Österreichische Post AG expended on 25 September 2003 a multicolored stamp with the image of Werner Schlager and the text " Table Tennis World Champion 2003 " at the nominal value of 0.55 euros ( Michel catalog number 2698 ). The rest of the stamp, which was manufactured in counter sheet with 50 pieces in Photogravure, amounted to 700,000. On this stamp the text was printed at the same time with Chinese characters. The design of this stamp was from Mrs. Renate Gruber. Of this stamp is not valid for FPP Black Prints exist in a cut version.

For this first day of issue stamp a special was used with the illustration of a table tennis bats and table tennis net, and the text " Werner Schlager Table Tennis World Champion 2003 09.25.2013 1150 Wien ".

On 26 September 2003 an additional special with the image of Werner Schlager and the text " Werner Schlager Table Tennis World Champion 2003, SVS Lower Austria, September 26, 2003 * 2320 Schwechat " used.

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