SOLJA and GROTH youngest players with Olympic berth

April 17, 2016
8:57 pm
European Olympic Singles Qualification

Figures of 2016 ITTF-European Olympic Games Qualification Tournament

Petrissa SOLJA (Germany) and Jonathan GROTH (Denmark) are the youngest qualifiers at the 2016 ITTF-European Olympic Games Qualification Tournament– that is just one of figures on the event held last week in Swedish city of Halmstad. Both are 22-year-old.

In total 151 players fought for the place at the 2016 Rio Olympics 78 men and 73 women. Halmstad event provided 20 tickets to Rio for 13 different NOC’s: 3 for Germany Portugal and Sweden 2 for Russia and 1 for Poland Turkey Austria Netherlands Greece Slovenia Denmark France and Bulgaria.

Katarzyna GRZYBOWSKA (POL) KOU Lei (UKR) and Daniel GORAK (POL) have played most matches: 11. Host player LI Fen (39-year-old) and Greek Panagiotis GIONIS (36) are the oldest qualifiers in women`s and men`s singles events respectively.

During five days 406 matches have played 61 of them going to the full distance of 7 games. All players produced 2034 games and 37283 points.

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